Dehradun: Efficient administration, dedicated government, scream posters and banners here in the capital of Uttarakhand, with the life size figure of chief minister B C Khanduri, waving his hand. The BJP is banking on the hope that having changed the chief minister just months before…
The Uttarakhand Parivartan Party has charged Uttarakhand Chief Minister BC Khanduri with indulging in the “worst kind of corruption” by making false promises to the people of the state with an intention to win elections. PC Tewari, president of the Uttarakhand Parivartan Party, addressing mediapersons…
Uttarakhand is the first state of the country to put in place a Lokpal Bill. And though by doing so chief minister B C Khanduri may have become the poster boy of Anna Hazare, legal experts here claim that it is full of flaws and…
Before the forthcoming Assembly elections, the much awaited musical album (video) of renowned Uttarakhandi folk singer Narender Negi, which highlighted corruption in higher places and political satire, was released here today. Music lovers in the hill state were anxiously waiting for Negi,s “Ab Kathga Khailo”…
The Communist Party of India (CPI), the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the CPI (ML) have joined together to fight the ensuing Assembly elections from one platform with a joint appeal and election campaign. [more]
Succumbing to the indefinite hunger strike undertaken by Shivanand Saraswati, founder head of the Matrisadan Ashram in the holy city of Hardwar, which continued till the 11th day, the Uttarakhand government Tuesday banned quarrying in the Bhogpur and Bishanpur ghats of the river Ganga. [more]
The Himalayan State of Uttarakhand is experiencing changes like steady recession of glaciers, shifting vegetation line, increasing temperature and reduction in annual rainfall, to name a few, due to climate change. The Gangotri and other glaciers have continued to retreat at different rates with climate…
They are the success stories like Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Goa. Then there are underachievers like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and the north-eastern states, with the possible exception of Sikkim. But perhaps the prospects for the four proposed UP disaggregates could best be seen in the…
Dehradun, November 25 The Uttarakhand United Regional Front held its third meeting, where the constituent parties had an agreement on a common minimum programme (CMP) and submitted lists of their candidates to the Coordination Committee. [more]