Neena Sharma Tribune News Service Dehradun, November 9 Magsaysay Award recipient Rajinder Singh who has earned the sobriquet of “Water Man” and was at the helm of Ganga Lok Yatra that travelled through different parts of Uttarakhand, has said no sooner did the yatra end…
Pankaj Shah, Times News Network, Sep 5, 2010, 04.31am IST LUCKNOW: First, it was environmentalist GD Agarwal who went on a hunger strike to pressurise the Centre into abandoning a 600 MW Loharinag-Pala hydro-electric power project over the Ganga in Uttarakhand. And now, Magsaysay award…
Rajeev Khanna Tribune News Service, Nainital, August 22 The voice that moved the conscience of the masses of Uttarakhand has fallen silent. A man with multiple facets of being a social activist, a poet, a cinema artiste, a theatre personality and above all a lovable…
A recuperating Girda holds marathon session of poetry recitation Neena Sharma Tribune News Service, May 31, 2010 Dehradun, May 30: Frail in body, but not in spirit, people’s poet Girda, though still recuperating from a long spell of illness, held a marathon session of poetry…
The two university movement martyrs, who died on December 15, 1972, in police firing demanding a separate Kumaon University, were remembered by the students of PG College and many student leaders at a function here today. The chairman of Pitthoragarh Nagar Palika Parishad and former…
Kalibari, Shimla, 30th October, 2009. We the constituents of the nation-wide Climate Justice movements in India, on behalf of the billion-strong deprived, under-consuming people of India, demand from our democratically elected government, the following principles to be followed in the international climate negotiations in Bercelona…
Himalayan people’s conclave on climate justice was organized by Himalaya Niti Abhiyan HP and people’s movements from the Western Himalaya states of J&K and Uttarakhand at Shimla on 30th Oct. 2009. Six hundred delegates participated in it. Climate change has emerged as a new catchphrase…
The Tribune Pitthoragarh, October 1 Gandhian influence in Uttarakhand is waning. Mahatma Gandhi set foot in the state in 1929 with a visit to Almora and the rest of the Kumaon region. The visit lasted more than 18 days. During his second visit in 1931,…
By Our Staff Reporter Garhwal Post, August 4, 2008 Ramnagar, 3 Aug: The Uttarakhand Parivartan Abhiyan has held a two day political meeting in Ramnagar. The main aim of the meeting was to build a political alternative in the state. The Central Convener of the…
Susanne Wong World Rivers Review, March 2008 For 15 days in January, hundreds of men, women and children marched across river valleys of India’s Uttarakhand state to raise awareness about government plans to build dams. The government intends to build 220 large, medium and small…