S M A KAZMI Posted online: Thursday, November 10, 2005 at 0019 hours IST DEHRA DUN, NOVEMBER 9: The waters of the Bhagirathi and Bhilangana rivers have gradually risen following the closure of all tunnels of the Tehri dam, submerging one village after another. In…
November 09, 2005 23:27 IST Villagers affected by the controversial Tehri hydel project, held demonstrations in Dehradun demanding a special package for dam oustees as Uttaranchal celeberated its fifth birthday on Wednesday. Residents of Chham and Mali Deval villages, which would be submerged shortly in…
Tehri dam Uttaranchal Chief Minister has not visited dam site to meet displaced people, says local Congress MLA S M A KAZMI Posted online: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 at 0139 hours IST DEHRA DUN, NOVEMBER 7: The closure of the last tunnel of the Tehri…
Sunday, November 6, 2005 (Tehri): The Uttaranchal High Court order to close Tunnel No: 2 of the Tehri Dam on river Bhagirathi for 40 days has in turn submerged old Tehri in the waters of the river. 50-year-old J S Bist once had a home…
Dehradun, Nov. 5 (PTI): The 280 MW Dhauliganga hydel project in Uttaranchal has been commissioned this week but not before creating cracks in the earth of a village on a hilltop on whose foothills the dam is built. A severe ‘slope instability’ problem had erupted…
By Vijay Rawat, People’s Democracy Vol. 29, No. 44. IT was one of those fine sunny days for which the hills and valleys of Uttarakhand are normally known in autumn after a long and severe spell of rains. As per the news that poured in…
DEHRA DUN, OCT 5 (PTI) Uttaranchal Assembly today passed a resolution to rename the state as Uttarakhand amid a noisy walkout by the opposition parties. Tabling the resolution, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Indira Hridayesh said Uttarakhand was synonymous with the people’s struggle during the separate statehood…
New Delhi | October 05, 2005 10:15:06 PM IST Inspired by the Chinese and Thailand models of town and village enterprises, India is taking steps to transform its rural economy by utilising local resources for setting up small manufacturing and processing units. The concept of…
Liberation, October 2005 For the past several months, Utaranchal has been witnessing a movement against the Hydro Electric Power Project at Joshimath – one of the 93 projects planned by the State Government to tap the State’s rivers for power. We carry an interview with…
Dehradun | September 29, 2005 5:52:32 PM IST Protesting against the aquittal of five accused in the Ramtiraha Muzaffarnagar episode by Muzaffarnagar court, various organisations today burnt the effigy of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and pelted stones at the Samajwadi Party office…