Saturday, December 25 2004, Dehra Dun: Speculation over the fate of Uttaranchal Chief Minister N D Tiwari, the country’s first woman Director General of Police and a series of major road accidents, landslides and cloudbursts grabbed the headlines in the State in 2004. [more]
Dehradun, Dec 15 : The stand-off between the Uttaranchal government and striking state forest guards has intensified with the authorities suspending 40 guards for negligence of duty. The state government has so far suspended 40 forest guards as a disciplinary action against them, official sources…
Veteran Indian Express journalist for Uttarakhand, SMA Kazmi, covers the following issues in this Dec. 9 article: State Government makes bid to assume responsibility for Char Dhams. Vidhan Sabha left largely vacant by truant MLAs Push to rename the state Tax exemptions for film industry…
New Delhi, Nov. 21: With a little over two years to go before the Assembly elections, the Uttaranchal Congress felt it was time the high command effected a mid-course correction to salvage its waning prospects. As speculation continued whether chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari would…
DEHRA DUN, NOVEMBER 10: A citizens’ ratings on the performance of the Uttaranchal government has put a damper on celebrations of the fourth anniversary of the state’s creation. The ratings, the result of a survey conducted by an NGO, Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK),…
[India News]: Gairsain (Uttaranchal), Nov 9 : For two days, Uttaranchal has been ablaze with effigies of Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari protesting his suggestion that citizens “forget” the killing of 12 people during an agitation for creating the state. On the fourth anniversary of the…
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2004 06:10:22 AM] DEHRA DUN: Pushpesh Tripathi, oldest son of senior Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) leader late Vipin Tripathi, on Saturday won the Dwarahat byelection. [more] Also, please read Imperative Of An Alternative Platform from People’s Democracy for background…
CPI(M) & CPI Support UKD Candidate Vijay Rawat AT the time of writing this the by-election to the Dwarahat assembly constituency in Almora district is due on October 13. This by election was necessitated because of the untimely and unfortunate death of Bipin Tripathi, the…
By Our Staff Correspondent The Hindu, Saturday, Dec 06, 2003 DEHRA DUN DEC. 5. The Uttaranchal Cabinet has watered down the provisions of the controversial Land Ordinance. Now the Ordinance, to become an Act during the coming Assembly session, will not be applicable to urban…
Deep Joshi GOPESHWAR (CHAMOLI), June 23: The neglect of the Gopeshwar-based Herbal Research and Development Institute (HRDI) is ample proof of the State Government’s callousness towards conservation of precious medicinal plants found in Uttarakhand. The HRDI had been set up in 1992 to check the…