Nainital, November 17 A study carried out by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the National Election Watch (NEW) on Uttarakhand revealed that over the five years between 2005-06 and 2009-10, the budget projections for the revenue deficit and fiscal deficit had not been…
Nainital, November 17 The Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP) has come out against the recently passed Lokayukta Act in the state, describing it as ‘a paper tiger that is incapable of curbing corruption’. Party President PC Tewari has underlined that the government had very cleverly saved…
Now what does the general do to lift the sagging morale of his forces and also that of the people? He sends his chief secretary for three clandestine meetings with Anna Hazare’s associates (so much for transparency and wider consultations). After making bare minimum changes,…
Pithoragarh, (Uttarakhand), Nov 17 (ANI): The birth of the new state of Uttarakhand in November 2000 symbolized hope for development in the resource-rich but impoverished hills of Kumaon and Garhwal in the Himalayan region. Eleven years later, that dream is yet to be realized. And…
So much for a state government that listens to its people Environmentalists and locals who are in the forefront of the anti-dam agitation in Agustmuni continue to be harassed by the government machinery, members of the Uttarakhand Nadi Bachao Andolan (UNBA) have charged. “As if…
The statehood day was observed as Vishwasghat Divas by the cadres and supporters of the Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP). Members of the party went on to burn an effigy of all those political forces who had ‘plundered’ the state during the last 11 years of…
Dehra Dun : As the state gears up to celebrate its statehood day on Wednesday, for the common man in general and those families in particular whose members struggled day in and day night and also gave their lives in the struggle for the statehood…
In an initiative to address the concerns of the people residing in the Himalayan areas of the country, the Planning Commission has constituted an 18-member Working Group on “Mountain eco-systems and challenges faced by the people living in the hilly areas” for the formulation of…
Dehra Dun: The tiny mountain state of Uttarakhand came into existence just over a decade back. The movement for separating the hills from the plains of Uttar Pradesh and making it a separate state is still fresh in the minds of the people. [more]
With hardly six months left for the Uttarakhand Assembly elections, the ruling BJP has replaced the State’s Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ with BC Khanduri. When the BJP came to power in 2007, Khanduri was made CM. When BJP lost all five seats of the…