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Folk performance by Negi, Gir 'Da' draws record participation

UANA Annual Convention-2007 By Our Staff Reporter Garhwal Post, July 31, 2007 Dehradun, 30 July: Highlanders from all corners of America and also from Canada participated in the annual convention of the Uttaranchal Association of North America (UANA) in New Jersey on 28 July. The…

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High-rise building a threat for people in seismic-prone Dehradun

By Asheesh Goel / Dailyindia.com/ANI Dehradun, July 29: With an increasing number of locals in Uttarakhand vying each other for high-rise buildings, the lives of several people in Dehradun, are under threat as the region lies in the earthquake prone zone. Officials with the Geological…

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Workers Protest Violation of Labour Laws

Government Brands Them “Anti-Development” Liberation, 24 July 2007 The industrial area demarcated by the State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttaranchal Ltd. (SIDCUL) in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, may not be an SEZ – but it is certainly a ‘special’ new type of ‘integrated’ industrial estate – the…

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India honours saviour of Valley of Flowers

Posted: 23 Jul 2007 by Neeta Lal Every year some 600,000 pilgrims make their way through the Valley of Flowers in the Indian Himalayas, and until recently, left behind a trail of garbage. Now the Valley and the adjoining Nanda Devi National Park has been…

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Himalayan walk towards a new life

In the foothills of the Indian mountains, a plan to offer walking holidays for tourists could be the salvation of five ancient villages. Peter Hughes reports. London Telegraph, 21 June 2007 I can see them now, standing on a ridge above me, their saris rinsed…

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Package pilgrims ‘destroying the Himalayas’

Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka), 15 July 2007 (Reuters) HUNDREDS of thousands of pilgrims flocking to holy sites in the Himalayas are fouling fragile mountain ecosystems with rubbish, human waste, air pollution and the deforestation that comes with development. Hindus believe the Himalayas are the abode…

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Uttarakhand shifts focus to small power projects

BS Reporter / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun July 05, 2007 After sanctioning mega projects as big as the 2,400 MW Tehri hydel project, the Uttarakhand government is now trying to focus on small power plants. These projects would be of .5 to 5 MW of…

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After 22 years, justice fails Dalits

Caste Hindus who disrupted Dalit cremation acquitted as court loses case papers Rakesh Bhatnagar Thursday, July 05, 2007 NEW DELHI: Twenty-two years after around 20 upper caste Hindus were accused of meting out inhuman treatment to the body of a Dalit which had been brought…

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AP: A life transformed

Former actress devotes herself to India’s forlorn By Cassie Biggs Associated Press Published July 4, 2007 RISHIKESH, India — Maggie O’Hara may have left the false eyelashes and spike heels behind when she ditched Hollywood for the banks of India’s sacred Ganges River, but the…

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Hills echo human rights

Combat Law Vol 6 Issue 4, July – August 2007 The struggle for human rights is far from over in the new state of Uttarakhand. Suresh Nautiyal reports on the local organisations’ strong will to pressurise the government to respect human rights and protect the…

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