Jotirmay Thapliyal Tribune News Service, Dehradun, July 14 The Virender Dikshit recommendations favouring Dehradun over Gairsain and other cities as permanent capital of Uttarakhand has stirred a hornet’s nest. While many back Dehradun as permanent capital, there is a clear opinion in favour of a…
Read more »Umesh Dewan Tribune News Service, Dehradun, July 13 After a wait of seven years, the Justice Birendra Dixit (retd) report on suggesting a permanent capital for Uttarakhand was finally tabled at the Budget session today. Parliamentary affairs minister Parkash Pant tabled the report in the…
Read more »Shishir Prashant / Business Standard Dehradun June 30, 2009 The new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, faces the challenge of attracting industrialists to set up units in the hills of the state. Under the hill industrial policy of 2008, mainly for small industries,…
Read more »SMA Kazmi, Tribune News Service Dehradun, June 24 The magnitude of death and destruction caused by massive landslides in the mid-Himalayan region of Uttarakhand during the past decade points to the alarming rise in human interference in a fragile mountain eco-system that happens to fall…
Read more »By Raja Murthy, Asia Times June 23, 2009 RANIKHET – From this Himalayan town about 380 kilometers from Delhi, my first view of mystical Nandi Devi was one of those velvet-cloaked, sledge-hammer moments in life that softly stuns the senses and leaves one wordless. Golden…
Read more »Umesh Dewan Tribune News Service, Dehradun, May 30 After spending two years in jail on the charges of being a Naxalite, Binayak Sen is a happy man today, as the Apex Court had issued orders granting him bail. But, in Uttarakhand, Parshant Rahi, a former…
Read more »Almost 20 per cent of litchi trees in the city have vanished with the spurt in construction activities ever since the city was awarded interim capital status. Hundreds of litchi trees have been felled by private colonisers in alleged connivance with politicians and the police,…
Read more »Sandeep Rawat Tribune News Service Haridwar, May 18 The election results in Haridwar constituency have revealed that voters have totally rejected the “hill versus plain” issue, forcing the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party to rethink upon the issue that paid them rich dividends…
Read more »BD Kasniyal, Tribune Pitthoragarh, May 19 Villagers of Kumaon, disappointed with their elected representatives for failure to provide them water, roads and electricity, boycotted the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections. The EVMs installed in their polling booths did not register a single vote. The villagers of…
Read more »Rajeev Khanna, Indian Express Sun May 17 2009 Dehradun: Converting the prevalent anti-incumbency mood to its advantage, the Congress swept the hills, winning all five seats. It was a major setback for the BJP that is in power in the state assembly and had campaigned…
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