[India News]: Agar (Uttaranchal), Oct. 23 : Villagers living near a controversial dam are on hunger strike protesting the high tension power lines which pass over their houses and fields. The 800 kilo watt wires are to transmit power to northern Indian towns after the…
Press Club, Dehradun October 21, 2004 Bali Devi being greeted by Maasai women in Kenya. (courtesy of IISD)The Alliance for Development organized a press conference at the Press Club, Dehra Dun on 21 October 2004, on the return of Bali Devi and Biju Negi from…
Oct, 18, 2004 saw a very big rally at Gairsain. This was the largest gathering since the movement intesified on Oct. 02, 2004. The rally was attended by over 1,000 people including the newly elected MLA from Dwarahat Mr. Pushpesh Tripathi. Today, the police force…
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2004 06:10:22 AM] DEHRA DUN: Pushpesh Tripathi, oldest son of senior Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) leader late Vipin Tripathi, on Saturday won the Dwarahat byelection. [more] Also, please read Imperative Of An Alternative Platform from People’s Democracy for background…
CPI(M) & CPI Support UKD Candidate Vijay Rawat AT the time of writing this the by-election to the Dwarahat assembly constituency in Almora district is due on October 13. This by election was necessitated because of the untimely and unfortunate death of Bipin Tripathi, the…
Please sign the petition at www.petitiononline.com/gairsain The text is provided below: October 2004 To the Chief Minister, members of the Uttaranchal State Assembly, members of the Lok Sabha for Uttaranchal, Secretaries, etc. Whereas this October 2 marked the tenth anniversary of the darkest moments of…
The latest from Gairsain is that at 4:45 in the evening y/day, amid strong protest by over 150 agitators, a small force, mainly comprising of women took away Chandra Kala Bisht on her 8th day of fasting. Police tried several attempts since morning, before finally…
Nairobi, Kenya, October 11, 2004 Translated by Biju Negi Listen to the Real Audio of Speech Sisters and Friends, Semanya (Greetings) I am Bali Devi from Reni, a distant village in Chamoli Garhwal, India. You may have heard of Himalaya. My village is in Himalaya.…
Chandan Dangi, October 11, 2004 Gairsain was in the TV News Channels captions since Oct. 02, 2004. The print media did follow its coverage subsequently, following the deteriorating health conditions of two fasting activists of Uttarakhand Mahila Manch – Dr. Uma Bhatt and Smt. Dhooma…
Bali Devi greets Wangari Maathai
Bali Devi greets Nobel Prize winner Dr. Wangari Maathai in Nairobi (courtesy UNEP)
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