A forum for the children of the mountains. By Santosh Mehta Hindu Business Line, March 23, 2007 Twenty-five years of work in the region has proved to the Shri Bhuvneshwari Mahila Ashram (SBMA), a Garhwal-based voluntary organisation in Uttarakhand, that it pays to tap the…
Read more »Killing her, not so softly Is global warming killing the Himalayan glaciers, including Gangotri-Gaumukh – the origin of Ganga? By Akash Bisht Surendra Rawat, 28, of the National Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, is a professional mountaineer. His job has taken him many times in the…
Read more »Nitin Sethi, Times of India Mar 8, 2007 Almost all women’s movement in the Indian hinterland, at some point in their past, have grappled with the problem. Many of these movements were formed primarily to tackle it and many continue to deal with it. Anti-alcohol…
Read more »Dhananjay Mahapatra & Nitin Sethi Times of India, March 7, 2007 NEW DELHI: The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended that the Uttarakhand government deploy adequate number of officials to protect the Ganga basin area. On the advice of the Wildlife Institute of India, the…
Read more »Times of India, March 6, 2007 Yogendra Yadav One hates to be a spoilsport. But the interpretations being made about the election verdict in three states involve three common but erroneous assumptions. Assumption one is that whoever has won the election has secured a popular…
Read more »Kuldip Nayar Gulf News, 04-Mar-07 THE voting pattern in India is undergoing a change beyond conjecture. There were times when Pakistan or Kashmir would be an issue in every election, provincial or central. Then it was the phase of slogans like the state’s constitutional rights…
Read more »Sidharth Mishra | New Delhi Daily Pioneer, March 1, 2007 At the end of the month-long election campaign, a general consensus prevailed that the BJP, though it would remain far ahead of the Congress, would fall short of the halfway mark. The matters were not…
Read more »Indian Express February 28, 2007 NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 27: The next BJP government in Uttarakhand is determined to settle the issue of the state’s capital, on whether it would continue to be in Dehradun or would be shifted to the hills, but planned to go…
Read more »The votes are in, and it looks like a BJP near majority. Given that independents can easily haggle for plum positions from a party in such a dominant position, a BJP government is all but assured. In fact, this is a near reverse of 2002,…
Read more »With the NDTV exit poll showing a hung assembly with a range of results for all four main parties (32,178 surveyed regionally), the HT-CNN/IBN poll (4,282 surveyed in 32 seats) and Star News (7,200 surveyed in 29 seats) indicating a BJP majority, and the Garhwal…
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