Social organisations join hands to take forward the agitation of Matra Sadan against the illegal quarrying on Ganga riverbed Tribune News Service Haridwar, June 15 Swami Nigmanand’s death has sparked another agitation against the illegal quarrying being done on the Ganga riverbed in Haridwar. Now,…
Ramdev and his aide Balkrishna seem to have spun an unholy empire using all kinds of means. Brijesh Pandey and Manoj Rawat reports from Haridwar [more]
Ashish Kothari Hindustan Times June 16, 2011 The starkly disproportionate response of the government, media and the public to the two babas on fast over the last few days is symptomatic of a deep malaise in our democratic set-up. Capturing the headlines was Baba Ramdev,…
NDTV Correspondent, Updated: June 16, 2011 Haridwar: While politicians trade charges over the death of swami Nigamanand in Haridwar, his death has once again brought into focus the rampant illegal mining around the river. Swami Nigamanand had gone on a fast to protest illegal mining…
Rituparna Chatterjee, IBNLive Updated Jun 14, 2011 at 04:19pm IST New Delhi: In his lifetime, Nigamanand, an ascetic fighting a lonely battle against quarrying activities in Uttarakhand, tried to draw the attention of the national media to an environmental disaster waiting to happen in the…
Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times New Delhi, June 13, 2011 Source of water in northern and central India, the western Himalayan glaciers, are retreating at the fastest rate in India, a new government study has revealed. The most disturbing trend from latest monitoring of 2,190 glaciers…
By Raju Gusain in Dehradun Mail Today, June 13, 2011 BABA RAMDEV’S deluxe ward at Dehradun’s Himalayan Hospital was not far from that of his ‘fellow faster’ Swami Nigamanand. Yet, while the camera bulbs wouldn’t stop flashing as Ramdev broke his fast following nine days…
Swami Nigmanand passes away after a 68-day fast to save the Ganga Haridwar, June 13 The Tribune While yoga guru Ramdev hogged the media limelight as religious leaders and political dignitaries made a beeline for the Himalayan Hospital at Jollygrant near Rishikesh to offer him…
Nainital, June 13, Tribune The pre-monsoon showers experienced in the region, a prelude to what is expected over the next two months, has exposed the administration’s lack of preparedness with regards to preventive measures and the repairs of the infrastructure devastated during the last year’s…
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth has been given fertile tracts of land by the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttarakhand. Documents accessed by The Sunday Guardian show that in 2008, when Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri was Uttarakhand Chief Minister, the state government allotted 50 hectares…