Harish Rawat said Uttarakhand has already suffered a “jolt” and “deep wounds” in the form of defections but other opposition-ruled states will be saved from the Centre’s designs. [more]
PRESIDENT’S rule was imposed in Uttarakhand and the state assembly kept in suspended animation after President Pranab Mukherjee signed a proclamation under Article 356 on Sunday, just a day before Chief Minister Harish Rawat was slated to face a floor test to prove the Congress…
Kalawati Devi Rawat is known as the woman who brought electricity to her remote village in the hills of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, writes BBC Hindi’s Salman Ravi. [more]
A political storm is brewing in Uttarakhand. And as is the case with most political storms, at its centre is a long-standing socio-economic issue: migration. But unlike the inter-state migration witnessed in the Garhwal region in the second half of the 20th century, migration now…
One evening Dutch photographer Jeroen Staats, 36, read two stories on the Hindustan Times website about distress migration from Uttarakhand. He came all the way from Amsterdam to Pauri Garhwal to find out what happens to the land and the few people left behind in…
Uttarakhand is perhaps one of the most beautifully sited states in India. It fits our idea of a Dev Bhoomi, a land fit for divine habitation. Gods are aplenty here, the majority of them local. Many of them are pre-Aryan and, after originating from various…
Uttarakhand is sitting on a shaky land which may any time sway into an earthquake of much higher intensity than what was witnessed in Nepal recently, according to national and international seismologists who read a great stress buildup underneath awaiting a vent. [more]
Seven kilometres ahead of Kanatal in the Tehri district, three large boards announce that a slip road is being built under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. This narrow road leads to Saur, once a bustling village but now eerily silent and desolate. Roofs have…
New research partly funded by the Indian government to forecast earthquakes has made a grim prediction: a great quake never seen in centuries could strike Uttarakhand, an area home to 10 million people. [more]
The Supreme Court asked the Union environment ministry to review six specific hydroelectric projects on the upper Ganga basin in Uttarakhand. On Wednesday, the ministry informed the apex court that its expert committee had checked and found the six had almost all the requisite and…