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GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed? At a time when courts hog headlines, this was a conspicuous slip. About two months ago, the Uttarakhand High Court admitted a public interest petition on making gross environmental productivity a co-indicator of the state of the…

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UPP may move Supreme Court

Rajeev Khanna Tribune News Service Nainital, September 23 The regional parties of the state, the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) and the Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP), are unhappy with the High Court’s decision allowing any citizen of India to purchase 12.5 acres of agricultural land in…

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Uttarakhand High Court holds ban on buying land by outsiders as unconstitutional

Jagdish Bhatt Hill Post, September 23, 2011 Dehra Dun : In what could have long term ramifications for the people of the state, a division bench of the Uttarakhand High Court comprising Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice U C Dhyani today held as unconstitutional…

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Missing Girls is About Femicide

DEHRADUN, Sep 19, 2011 (IPS) – India has been ranked the fourth most dangerous country in the world for women, but the widespread practice of selectively aborting female foetuses may make it the most hostile to the female gender. In the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand,…

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Protests erupt in Kumaon over lack of basic amenities

Distant Dehradun-based administration has been failing the hills of Kumaon for some time, raising the spectre of regionalism. Tribune News Service Nainital, September 20 Protests have erupted across Kumaon over the past couple of days against the alleged failure of the administration to do anything…

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Commentary: Lt General to the BJP’s rescue?

Interesting and compelling commentary. Talks about the embarrassing and comical upper caste and regional rivalries that have contributed to what Uttarakhand is today, a playground for egos and corrupt politics Aditi Phadnis / Business Standard New Delhi September 17, 2011, 0:56 IST Lt Gen B…

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Uttarakhand cabinet – old wine in new bottle: Khanduri fails to induct fresh team

By Jagdish Bhatt | September 13, 2011 Hill Post Dehra Dun : – Though newly sworn-in chief minister Maj Gen (retd) B C Khanduri may have made an effort to convince the masses that he is sincere in eradicating corruption that has become all-prevalent in…

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Litmus test for Khanduri

Dehradun Diary The Tribune, September 12, 2011 MAJ-Gen BC Khanduri (retd) today took over as the sixth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand that came into being a decade ago on November 9, 2000. Out of these six Chief Ministers, during the past 10 years, five of…

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Hollow promises cost Nishank CM’s post

Solid article, but as the reporter himself notes, Nishank was able to buy off his critics in the media to hide the disintegration of the state government. Only a few reporters were intrepid and dedicated enough to consistently expose the regime. Rajeev Khanna The Tribune…

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Uttarakhand’s political class revels in weak Lokayukta Act

Subodh Ghildiyal, Times of India Sep 12, 2011 NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal may have got the boot on corruption issues but the state ironically appears to be ruled by the cleanest political class in the country. The state Lokayukta has not received…

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