The Tribune, Mussoorie, April 19 The Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP), buoyed by the response during the ‘Uttarakhand Parivartan Yatra’ that began on Martyr’s Day of Shaheed Bhagat Singh on March 23, is all set to take its struggle right to the door of the mafia…
Business Standard, Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehradun April 1, 2011 A year ago, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had demanded Nobel prize for holding the Maha Kumbh Mela at Haridwar. But now, a new report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India…
Press Trust Of India Dehradun, March 31, 2011 The Uttarakhand government has come under scanner following a new CAG report that slams the state government for its lackadaisical approach towards implementation of important aspects of disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness. In its new report which…
Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehradun Business Standard, March 05, 2011 A series of alleged scams have returned to haunt the Uttarakhand government with the Supreme Court today calling for compliance of the High Court order on the Rishikesh housing project. As a follow-up to…
Raju Gusain India Today, Dehradun, November 29, 2010 The BJP government in Uttarakhand on Sunday tried to pre-empt a possible judicial censure against its decision to sell off industrial land in Rishikesh worth Rs 400 crore for Rs 13 crore to a realtor. Afraid of…
Shishir Prashant Business Standard, New Delhi/ Dehra Dun November 20, 2010 Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata may have opened the Pandora’s box by highlighting corruption at the top echelons. After Tata, yoga guru Baba Ramdev has also raked up another controversy by claiming that a…
Poornima Joshi India Today, New Delhi, November 21, 2010 The high-decibel campaign by the BJP against 2G licence allotment is in danger of getting seriously compromised not just by B. S. Yeddyurappa’s insistence in sticking to his chair in Karnataka, but also the spate of…
The CAG indicts Uttarakhand for pursuing hydel power projects indiscriminately without concern for the environment. PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI Frontline, Volume 27 – Issue 24 :: Nov. 20-Dec. 03, 2010 IN a severe indictment of the Uttarakhand government, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India…
Rajeev Khanna Tribune News Service Nainital, October 3 Cynicism from all corners has marked the relief handling by the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. The question being asked is that how did the government arrive at the “golden figure” of…
Rajeev Khanna Tribune News Service Nainital, August 14 Uttarakhand politicians have been gradually earning the reputation of degrading the level of politics in the state. The region that has produced stalwarts like Gobind Ballabh Pant and Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna has been witnessing mudslinging over the…