Mussoorie (Uttarakhand), May 12 (ANI): Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in 1994 banning illegal constructions, the illicit constructions in Uttarakhand’s Mussoorie city is reportedly affecting the beauty of the hills. The illegal construction here had stopped after the apex court’s verdict, but the rich and…
Read more »Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / New Delhi / Dehra Dun May 5, 2010 Here is good news for the water-starved Uttarakhand. After more than four years of experiments and research, a European Union river bank filtration (RBF) project has ignited new hopes to end…
Read more »Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / New Delhi / Dehra Dun May 03, 2010, 0:27 IST Gangotri, Valley of Flowers and other highly eco-sensitive zones of the Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand may be becoming hot sites on the tourist map. But the Uttarakhand government now…
Read more »IANS Vancouver, April 21 – Canada’s Pebble Creek mining company said here Tuesday that it is all set to commence drilling operations at its Askot project in India’s Uttarakhand state. Situated in Pithoragarh district of the state, the Askot project likely contains deposits of gold,…
Read more »Nainital, Apr 13 (ANI): Residents of several villages near the tourist town of Nainital are facing an acute water shortage, and are travelling to travel about two kilometres to fetch drinking water. According to them, water at home is only available for an hour. “We…
Read more »IFMR Blog, April 9, 2010 Including the poor into the formal financial system has been hard despite numerous and sustained efforts. The difficulty in achieving inclusion attains a whole new meaning in hills and mountainous regions where populations are sparse and connectivity is extremely low.…
Read more »Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / New Delhi / Dehra Dun April 10, 2010, 0:13 IST Opposing big dams, top social activists of Uttarakhand today called for a separate long-term policy for the conservation of Himalayan rivers and greater participation of locals in the development…
Read more »Times of India Pradeep Thakur, TNN, Apr 2, 2010 NEW DELHI: There would be no water in large stretches of the famed Alaknanda and Bhagirathi riverbeds if the Uttarakhand government goes ahead with its plan to build 53 power projects on these two rivers which…
Read more »Nitin Sethi, TNN, Mar 31, 2010, 12.46am IST NEW DELHI: Bhagirathi, one of the key tributaries of the Ganga, will now flow untamed and unchecked through the year for at least part of its stretch. In a decision that shows heightened sensitivity towards the environment…
Read more »Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 05, Dated February 06, 2010 Across Uttarakhand, traditional systems do the disappearing act, reports AMITANGSHU ACHARYA SITTING ON the mud porch of his house in Uttarakhand, 80-yearold Maulya Singh looks stoically at the burnt stumps of pine a few metres…
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