[India News]: Tehri (Uttaranchal), Dec 30 : Environmentalists in Tehri, home to the world’s fourth biggest dam project, fear for the safety of millions of residents saying that the highly seismic region could get active again. After the Tsunamis killed thousands in Asia, people living near the Tehri Dam are worried about their lives, as [...]

Saturday, December 25 2004, Dehra Dun: Speculation over the fate of Uttaranchal Chief Minister N D Tiwari, the country’s first woman Director General of Police and a series of major road accidents, landslides and cloudbursts grabbed the headlines in the State in 2004. [more]

The Chipko spirit is still strong in the Garhwal Himalayas by Harsh Dobhal for Tehelka.com Thirty years is a long time for any movement to continue. But the famous Chipko movement lives on — thriving and pulsating, challenging and sustaining, albeit in a different form. The men and women who once hugged the trees to [...]

Tribune News Service, Dehra Dun, December 21 With the basic issue of a permanent capital remaining unaddressed, Uttaranchal is seeing demonstrations intensifying like never before. Backed by the most prominent regional party in the hill state, the UKD (Uttarakhand Kranti Dal), hundreds of activists trekked down to the capital and staged a dharna outside the [...]

Dehradun, Dec 15 : The stand-off between the Uttaranchal government and striking state forest guards has intensified with the authorities suspending 40 guards for negligence of duty. The state government has so far suspended 40 forest guards as a disciplinary action against them, official sources said here today. Nearly 3,200 forest guards across the hill [...]

This sobering commentary, while romantic in its writing, points to a destructive present, where the old Uttarakhand is dying and the new one of mountain slums and environmental destruction is rapidly becoming the universal reality. Not only is this transformation physical, but also cultural — it is the same worldwide the inexorable tide of human [...]

Dehra Dun, Dec 13 : Senior Congress leader and Union Minister Oscar Fernandes today assured Congress workers that the Central Goverment would consider bringing a bill in parliament to change the name of Uttaranchal to Uttarakhand The assurance came during Fernandes’ meeting with the Congress workers here in the backdrop of the growing demand from [...]

[India News]: Dehradun, Dec 13 : Thousands of angry and disillusioned forest guards in Uttaranchal today organised a protest march till the State Assembly demanding protection from poachers, timber mafia and a salary hike, which, according to them, has remained unchanged for over 20 years. The agitated forest guards, over 3200 in number, threatened to [...]

Veteran Indian Express journalist for Uttarakhand, SMA Kazmi, covers the following issues in this Dec. 9 article: State Government makes bid to assume responsibility for Char Dhams. Vidhan Sabha left largely vacant by truant MLAs Push to rename the state Tax exemptions for film industry Dehradun mayor to Chair Asian Mayors’ Conference RLEK’s report on [...]

[India News]: Tehri (Dehradun), Dec 7 : Despite tall promises by the Uttaranchal government, residents of New Tehri, the township built for resettlement of Tehri Dam evacuees, are facing a severe water shortage as winter sets in.The state government is unable to provide water even once a day to thousands of displaced people, who had [...]