Jagdish Bhatt Hill Post, September 11, 2011 Dehra Dun: Maj Gen (retd) Bhuvan Chand Khanduri, who is to be sworn in as the 6th chief minister of this tiny mountain state later today, (twice in a period of less than five years) after his unceremonious…
September 10, 2011 The BJP once again decides to rearrange the deck chairs on its “Titanic” regime by swapping Chief Ministers ahead of assembly elections. Even while decrying the corruption allegations as baseless, the party high command has basically affirmed the severely damaging charges against…
Neena Sharma Tribune New Service Dehradun, August 19 After declaring Didihat, Almora,Yamnotri and Kotdwar as separate districts, the Nishank government has opened a Pandora’s box causing unrest and dissatisfaction. The tremors can be felt in several tehsils that have been left out, while a tussle…
Shishir Prashant Business Standard / New Delhi/ Dehradun August 12, 2011 After excelling in the gross domestic product (GDP) growth, Uttarakhand is yet again on the top of the chart according to the annual health survey (AHS). Bageshwar, the hilly district of Uttarakhand, has reported…
Tribal women in Uttarakhand are standing up for their community rights, and resisting the dispossession of their lands by a nexus between powerful landlords and the government machinery. Puja Awasthi reports. 13 August 2011 (India Together) – One morning the pond named Haldubala was gone.…
Dam proposed on the Alaknanda’s last unrestricted tributary stirs locals. Bharat Lal Seth / July 21, 2011 Business Standard The people of Chepdu village in the Pindar valley treasure the fair held every June in memory of an army man from the region who was…
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…
Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 26, Dated 02 July 2011 In the battle between the sadhus and the mining mafia over the Ganga, the BJP government in Uttarakhand has repeatedly and blatantly taken sides with the latter. Ashish Khetan & Manoj Rawat uncover the murky…
Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times New Delhi, June 23, 2011 Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand and Beed in Maharashtra are among several districts in India where vanishing girl child is a new phenomenon. As per 2011 census, child ratio in zero to six age group was 914, lowest…
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Uttarakhand Titanic
September 10, 2011 The BJP once again decides to rearrange the deck chairs on its “Titanic” regime by swapping Chief Ministers ahead of assembly elections. Even while decrying the corruption allegations as baseless, the party high command has basically affirmed the severely damaging charges against…
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