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…
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…
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,…
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…
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]
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…
Politics over hydro projects on tributaries of river Ganga is heating up with former Indian Institute of Technology professor G D Aggarwal sitting on a fast-unto-death demanding scrapping of eight projects on these rivers. [more]
NEW DELHI: In three of the five states about to hold elections, more women vote than men. Women thus hold the key to assembly elections in Uttarakhand , Manipur and Goa. In the 2007 assembly elections, half of Uttarakhand’s 70 constituencies saw more women cast…
New Delhi: In poll-bound Uttarakhand, migration of youth has always been a major issue but these elections, even the top state leadership seems to be migrating away from the hills. They’re contesting elections from the more comfortable Tarai region. [more]
Just as the BJP was pitching the judicious and decisive leadership of their chief ministerial candidate as its single point platform, the party released a manifesto full of fantastical economic projections and claims in an all out attempt to woo voters. Already delayed by the…
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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