NDTV Correspondent, Updated: January 31, 2011 10:33 IST Khatima (Uttarakhand): India may have taken strides in developments, but even today, high in the mountains of Kumaon in Uttarakhand, women are employed to lift human excreta on their head. For years, Lakshmi has been doing this…
Read more »Reuters Libbar Hari:, January 26, 2011 Bhola Nath doesn’t care much for India’s growth story. Not when the 65-year-old migrant brick kiln worker has stopped buying onions and garlic, key food staples for Indian families, and manages to save just 1,000 rupees ($22) per month…
Read more »Tribune News Service Nainital, January 18 The first biennial convention of the Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP) began at Ramnagar today. On the opening day of the two-day meet, party workers constituted the core committee of the political outfit. PC Tewari was again chosen as president…
Read more »SMA Kazmi Tribune News Service January 10, 2011 Uttarakhand is perhaps the only state in the country that has seen the decline of a regional political party since it came into being on November 9, 2000. Since the country attained Independence, and particularly in the…
Read more »Work-participation rate higher than national average Tribune News Service Nainital, January 9 In rural Uttarakhand, women are contributing up to 90 per cent of the total work in agriculture and animal care. The participation rate of women in the economy of the state is much…
Read more »Please take a few moments to sign the following important petition: To: Minister, Human Resource Dev., Government of India We, the undersigned, hereby Petition the Minister, Human Resource Development, Government of India to intervene and save the Centre for Performing Arts and Culture at the…
Read more »Residents are angry after increase in the dam’s water level led to landslides and subsequent house collapse SUDDEN landslides near Tehri Dam in Uttarakhand have forced residents of nearly four dozen villages to launch an agitation against the Tehri Hydroelectric Development Corporation (THDC). The corporation…
Read more »A recent report could check expansion of hydro projects in Himachal Pradesh Manshi Asher Down to Earth, Dec 15, 2010 The decision of the Union environment ministry to allow parts of the Ganga’s tributaries to flow freely in Uttarakhand, indicates there is finally some recognition…
Read more »Raju Gusain India Today, Dehradun, November 29, 2010 The BJP government in Uttarakhand on Sunday tried to pre-empt a possible judicial censure against its decision to sell off industrial land in Rishikesh worth Rs 400 crore for Rs 13 crore to a realtor. Afraid of…
Read more »Shishir Prashant Business Standard, New Delhi/ Dehra Dun November 20, 2010 Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata may have opened the Pandora’s box by highlighting corruption at the top echelons. After Tata, yoga guru Baba Ramdev has also raked up another controversy by claiming that a…
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