Shishir Prashant Business Standard / New Delhi/ Dehradun August 12, 2011 After excelling in the gross domestic product (GDP) growth, Uttarakhand is yet again on the top of the chart according to the annual health survey (AHS). Bageshwar, the hilly district of Uttarakhand, has reported…
Read more »Dam proposed on the Alaknanda’s last unrestricted tributary stirs locals. Bharat Lal Seth / July 21, 2011 Business Standard The people of Chepdu village in the Pindar valley treasure the fair held every June in memory of an army man from the region who was…
Read more »The mighty Ganga faces perhaps its greatest battle ever – that too against the government of Uttarakhand. Headlines Today has unmasked those hell-bent on destroying India’s most sacred river. Ishan Russell | Haridwar, July 18, 2011 India Today Illegal mining in and around Haridwar is…
Read more »Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times New Delhi, June 23, 2011 Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand and Beed in Maharashtra are among several districts in India where vanishing girl child is a new phenomenon. As per 2011 census, child ratio in zero to six age group was 914, lowest…
Read more »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,…
Read more »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]
Read 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,…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
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