Harish Rawat said Uttarakhand has already suffered a “jolt” and “deep wounds” in the form of defections but other opposition-ruled states will be saved from the Centre’s designs. [more]
PRESIDENT’S rule was imposed in Uttarakhand and the state assembly kept in suspended animation after President Pranab Mukherjee signed a proclamation under Article 356 on Sunday, just a day before Chief Minister Harish Rawat was slated to face a floor test to prove the Congress…
Kalawati Devi Rawat is known as the woman who brought electricity to her remote village in the hills of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, writes BBC Hindi’s Salman Ravi. [more]
One evening Dutch photographer Jeroen Staats, 36, read two stories on the Hindustan Times website about distress migration from Uttarakhand. He came all the way from Amsterdam to Pauri Garhwal to find out what happens to the land and the few people left behind in…
Uttarakhand is sitting on a shaky land which may any time sway into an earthquake of much higher intensity than what was witnessed in Nepal recently, according to national and international seismologists who read a great stress buildup underneath awaiting a vent. [more]
Seven kilometres ahead of Kanatal in the Tehri district, three large boards announce that a slip road is being built under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. This narrow road leads to Saur, once a bustling village but now eerily silent and desolate. Roofs have…
New research partly funded by the Indian government to forecast earthquakes has made a grim prediction: a great quake never seen in centuries could strike Uttarakhand, an area home to 10 million people. [more]
The Supreme Court asked the Union environment ministry to review six specific hydroelectric projects on the upper Ganga basin in Uttarakhand. On Wednesday, the ministry informed the apex court that its expert committee had checked and found the six had almost all the requisite and…
A month into protests against stone crushers mining in the agriculturally-rich Maletha gram sabha, the women of the village have decided to spearhead the campaign. They have taken the lead to demand the State government to cancel the licences of five stone crushers. [more]
The 2013 floods washed away their men out on job in Uttarakhand’s Kedar valley. A year and a half later, as the numbness injected by the catastrophe begins to wear off, the women are waking up to the pain of an uncertain future without breadwinners.…