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After The Blizzard

The anti-Nishank wave is such even Khanduri can’t save the BJP Every hundred metres or so on the highway from Roorkee to Dehradun, the Uttarakhand capital, life-size hoardings of incumbent chief minister Maj General (retd) B.C. Khanduri loom up with this message: ‘Khanduri hai Zaroori’.…

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CPI: BJP is glorifying Khanduri’s tenure but forgetting Nishank’s

Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan has accused both the BJP and the Congress of looting the state in the last 12 years. Addressing a press conference in the state capital on Saturday, he said that the people were fed up…

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In Uttarakhand, politicians ignoring farmers’ issues

GWALDAM: There is a bizarre disconnect between the lives of people in this region and the electoral process, best exemplified by the crisis in agriculture. Unlike the rest of the country , almost every family has some land, although 54% have less than two hectares.…

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Border villages deserted

Since adolescence, Tappar Singh, 52, a resident of Kunja village in Chamoli district had been involved in farming. But now he runs a small sweets shop in Galnau, a hamlet en route to Gairsain. Heading a family of four, Singh says farming in no longer…

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Green agenda

The volunteers of Citizens for Green Doon (CFGD), an organisation promoting greenery, have drafted a green election manifesto with the demand that every candidate must sign it to receive their support in the assembly election. The CFGD has already pointed out that around 45,000 trees…

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‘Only URM striving for development of state’: Negi

Famous folk singer Narendra Singh Negi addressed a public meeting in Pauri from the United Raksha Morcha (URM) forum on Friday. In the meeting, he said that he understood the limitations of the two national parties where the candidates were decided by the high command…

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Rush to foreign lands

For the last one year, Vikas, 22, has been working as support staff at a restaurant in Malaysia. For a special event he has arrived in his village – Vand Anuwa – nestled in a beautiful valley in Ghansali belt of Tehri Garhwal district. Vikas,…

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Team Anna’s Blindspot

Team Anna’s decision to enter the fray in Uttarakhand’s state elections is fraught with risky political calculations that may adversely impact their anti-corruption campaign and tarnish their reputation as a self-proclaimed apolitical force. Chief amongst these is the group’s celebratory attitude towards the passage of…

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CPI-ML manifesto promises ‘effective’ anti-corruption law

Corruption-free governance, providing land to the landless, introducing people-friendly rehabilitation and disaster management policies besides ensuring jobs for the unemployed youth are some of the several promises included in the manifesto of the CPI-ML for the ensuing assembly elections released recently. [more]

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Ghost villages

From the buzzing Rudraprayag town in the Garhwal hills, the 11-kilometre serpentine steep muddy stretch leads to more than half -a-dozen villages dotted on the hillside. In the last few years, theses villages – Cham Gudhera, Bilota, Gwar, Bauntha and Barsu have witnessed mass migration…

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