Liberation, October 2005 For the past several months, Utaranchal has been witnessing a movement against the Hydro Electric Power Project at Joshimath – one of the 93 projects planned by the State Government to tap the State’s rivers for power. We carry an interview with…
Uttarkashi | July 13, 2005 Incessant and heavy rains for over a week now has increased the danger of landslides and road blockades, an annual feature in the monsoons. Due to this, most of the rivers, including the Ganges are flowing over the danger level…
Dehradun | April 23, 2005 9:31:09 PM IST A recent report published by National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), has given sleepless nights to the residents and government of Uttaranchal government. The report says that about 1200 villages in the state are highly prone to the…
Tribune News Service, Dehra Dun, January 1 Moved by the tsunami disaster, Governor of Uttaranchal, Sudershan Agarwal has decided to adopt 50 children from Tamil Nadu orphaned in the calamity. The Him Jyoti Foundation, a trust set up by the Governor to provide for the…
[India News]: Tehri (Uttaranchal), Dec 30 : Environmentalists in Tehri, home to the world’s fourth biggest dam project, fear for the safety of millions of residents saying that the highly seismic region could get active again. After the Tsunamis killed thousands in Asia, people living…
By Rakesh Agarwal The Hindu, September 5, 2004 …Most people the team spoke to, felt that the road widening exercise that aims to make this National Highway (NH) 58 a four-lane highway, is a dangerous game; and poses a threat to the fragile environment of…
KHATIMA (UTTARANCHAL), AUG 26 (PTI): At least six persons were missing in flash floods in Kailashu and other rivers in Uttaranchal today even as 36 people who were feared to have been washed away escaped by clinging to trees. Kumaon Inspector General Vijay Raghav pant…
White elephant By Our Staff Correspondent, The Hindu, 10 August 2004 DEHRA DUN, AUG. 9. Uttaranchal boasts of being a hi-tech State and spends crores of rupees on disaster management and mitigation works. A good portion of this fund has gone into purchasing video conferencing…
TEHRI (UTTARANCHAL), AUG 3 (PTI) At least 17 workers of a private company were buried alive and 11 injured when a portion of an underground tunnel of Tehri hydel project caved in after heavy lanslides in the area. Nearly 50 to 60 workers, mostly laborers…
Purnima S. Tripathi Frontline, Volume 20 – Issue 22, October 25 – November, 07, 2003 Uttarkashi is in the grip of fear as the Varunavat mountain on the edge of the town has cracked up and may collapse on it any time. The Varunavat mountain…