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UKD’s heated rhetoric tarnishes its reputation even further

The UKD’s development-at-all-costs mantra took a new turn, with their only minister aggressively attacking Prof. G.D. Aggarwal who recently fasted against the controversial dams in the upper Ganga. The odious insults have only further sullied the reputation of the UKD that has been in a…

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Promoting Uttarakhand culture online

Tribune News Service Dehradun, October 2 Mountain Shepherds Initiatives Private Limited took a giant leap today when it launched an online shopping site, Angwal, where people across the world will be able to purchase literature, music, handicrafts and films, all related to life and culture…

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UPP seeks committees to monitor relief work

Tribune News Service Nainital, September 26 The Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP) has demanded that committees comprising representatives from political and social organisations be constituted to supervise relief efforts across the state in the wake of the disaster unleashed by the recent rains. The party has…

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Rains become bane of Uttarakhand people

SMA Kazmi Tribune News Service, September 20, 2010 Uttarakhand being a Himalayan state is prone to natural disasters but the unprecedented ongoing rains this year have proved to be a bane of citizens. Already more than 100 persons have died in rain-related incidents across the…

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SC slams Uttarakhand govt & THDC on relief and rehabilitation

New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) The Supreme Court today slammed Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC) and Uttarakhand government for their failure to take adequate rehabilitation measures for the people affected in Bhagirathi river valley with the raising of water level upto 830 meters in Tehri…

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Protests in Uttarakhand against closure of hydel projects

Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun Business Standard, September 13, 2010, 0:20 IST Protests have mounted in Uttarakhand against the closure of major hydel projects with the move likely to create an adverse affect on investment scenario in the hill state. Protests have triggered…

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Activists demand right to live in harmony with Himalayas

Tribune News Service Dehradun, September 9 Perturbed at the rampant exploitation of the Himalayas and the inherent dangers of lopsided development, activists, while observing Himalaya Day today, said that development that is counterproductive to the existence of the Himalayas was unacceptable to them. They urged…

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Trade union stir brings state to a halt

Tribune News Service Dehradun, September 7 Employees and trade unions of various national and private banks, trade unions of both the CPI and the CPM, the Indian National Trade Union Congress, Uttarakhand Joint Trade Union, Centre of Indian Trade Union and Employees Union of SIDCUL,…

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‘Waterman’ becomes Ganga’s saviour

Pankaj Shah, Times News Network, Sep 5, 2010, 04.31am IST LUCKNOW: First, it was environmentalist GD Agarwal who went on a hunger strike to pressurise the Centre into abandoning a 600 MW Loharinag-Pala hydro-electric power project over the Ganga in Uttarakhand. And now, Magsaysay award…

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A near miss

At 68, the winner of the Tenzing Norgay lifetime achievement award 2010 is still climbing mountains Yana Banerjee-Bey LiveMint, August 27, 2010 More than her 38 years into mountaineering, during which she and two others became the only women in the world to ascend Nanda…

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