Harish Rawat is in a situation that recalls the saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Despite being one of the most loyal and faithful Congress leaders of any state (or as Rawat himself put it, a “child bride”…
‘It would be the most positive event in the history of Uttarakhand,’ says Shekhar Pathak, a retired professor of history at Kumaon University, Nainital. [more]
Kumkum Bhandari, wife of veteran CPI leader Samar Bhandari, passed away from internal injuries at Himalayan Institute on March 6. She had been injured the day before in Raipur and was transfered through two hospitals before succumbing to her wounds in Jolly Grant. Our deepest…
Hindi littérateur, communist ideologue and social activist Vidhyasagar Nautiyal was cremated at the Khadkhadi cremation ghat today. People from all walks of life attended the funeral. [more]
After a long illness, it is with great sadness to note that novelist and playwright Vidyasagar Nautiyal has passed on. Born in Tehri in 1933, he participated right away at an early age in the prajamandal movement that restored democracy to the Tehri Garhwal princely…
The 2012 state election sees the crumbling BJP deploying their last and strongest card by replacing their floundering chief minister with one they unceremoniously dumped in 2009. While Khanduri has perhaps saved the party from an ignominious thumping at the polls, will it be enough…
The Uttarakhand Raksha Morcha (URM) will started its election campaign in Haridwar from tomorrow by holding public meetings. Legendary folk singer Narendra Singh Negi will be sharing the dais with the core team members of the morcha, including Lt-Gen Tej Pal Singh Rawat (retd), former…
So goes Rawat, so goes Uttarakhand
Harish Rawat is in a situation that recalls the saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Despite being one of the most loyal and faithful Congress leaders of any state (or as Rawat himself put it, a “child bride”…
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