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…
Succumbing to the indefinite hunger strike undertaken by Shivanand Saraswati, founder head of the Matrisadan Ashram in the holy city of Hardwar, which continued till the 11th day, the Uttarakhand government Tuesday banned quarrying in the Bhogpur and Bishanpur ghats of the river Ganga. [more]
The Himalayan State of Uttarakhand is experiencing changes like steady recession of glaciers, shifting vegetation line, increasing temperature and reduction in annual rainfall, to name a few, due to climate change. The Gangotri and other glaciers have continued to retreat at different rates with climate…
The sad fate of the four parks at the centre of Dehradun, is the fate of all of Uttarakhand Jagdish Bhatt Hill Post, September 26, 2011 Dehra Dun: There were four huge fields in the heart of the state capital of Uttarakhand, which not only…
Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed? At a time when courts hog headlines, this was a conspicuous slip. About two months ago, the Uttarakhand High Court admitted a public interest petition on making gross environmental productivity a co-indicator of the state of the…
The mighty Ganga faces perhaps its greatest battle ever – that too against the government of Uttarakhand. Headlines Today has unmasked those hell-bent on destroying India’s most sacred river. Ishan Russell | Haridwar, July 18, 2011 India Today Illegal mining in and around Haridwar is…
Uttarakhand banned mining along Ganga over and again. Will it obey court order this time? Just a few days before Swami Nigamanand died while on a fast to protest state-sponsored sand mining and stone crushing along the Ganga near Haridwar, the Uttarakhand government ordered a…