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Hill women suffer due to liquor-addict husbands

The rural women in hill villages are the worst hit by liquor consuming habits of their husbands, partial unemployment due to shrinking agriculture and of social and family neglect despite working hard for 16 hours a day to keep their family going. This impression has…

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Population decline in hill districts worries netas

Negi’s song symbolises a conflict that is tearing apart families across 13 hill districts of the state. Commonly called ‘palaayan’ (out-migration ), every political party is gnashing its teeth and promising all kinds of things to stop youth from migrating to the plains for jobs.…

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A State grappling with the problem of migration

A decade ago, when Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh, Bhairav Datt hoped that his sons would not have to leave their home to look for jobs in either Delhi or Lucknow. But now, while his third son is preparing for his class X…

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After The Blizzard

The anti-Nishank wave is such even Khanduri can’t save the BJP Every hundred metres or so on the highway from Roorkee to Dehradun, the Uttarakhand capital, life-size hoardings of incumbent chief minister Maj General (retd) B.C. Khanduri loom up with this message: ‘Khanduri hai Zaroori’.…

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CPI: BJP is glorifying Khanduri’s tenure but forgetting Nishank’s

Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan has accused both the BJP and the Congress of looting the state in the last 12 years. Addressing a press conference in the state capital on Saturday, he said that the people were fed up…

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In Uttarakhand, politicians ignoring farmers’ issues

GWALDAM: There is a bizarre disconnect between the lives of people in this region and the electoral process, best exemplified by the crisis in agriculture. Unlike the rest of the country , almost every family has some land, although 54% have less than two hectares.…

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Border villages deserted

Since adolescence, Tappar Singh, 52, a resident of Kunja village in Chamoli district had been involved in farming. But now he runs a small sweets shop in Galnau, a hamlet en route to Gairsain. Heading a family of four, Singh says farming in no longer…

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Green agenda

The volunteers of Citizens for Green Doon (CFGD), an organisation promoting greenery, have drafted a green election manifesto with the demand that every candidate must sign it to receive their support in the assembly election. The CFGD has already pointed out that around 45,000 trees…

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‘Only URM striving for development of state’: Negi

Famous folk singer Narendra Singh Negi addressed a public meeting in Pauri from the United Raksha Morcha (URM) forum on Friday. In the meeting, he said that he understood the limitations of the two national parties where the candidates were decided by the high command…

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Rush to foreign lands

For the last one year, Vikas, 22, has been working as support staff at a restaurant in Malaysia. For a special event he has arrived in his village – Vand Anuwa – nestled in a beautiful valley in Ghansali belt of Tehri Garhwal district. Vikas,…

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