The just-concluded Bharat Rang Mahotsav featured some nice plays dealing with the common man, his beliefs and obsessions. Read on with DIWAN SINGH BAJELI to know more.
UTTARAKHAND IS rich in traditional theatre forms and folk ballads. Fascinated by these forms, contemporary theatre practitioners of this hill State are engaged in experimenting with these forms to [...]

Rumblings of the Second Uttarakhand Revolution and the Struggle for Gairsain
Rajiv Lochan Sah
Nainital Samachar
January 23, 2005
Gairsain is not an unfamiliar idea. It was widely accepted as the capital of Uttarakhand even before the demand for a separate hill state came into full swing in 1994. In fact, Gairsain is not a geographical entity alone, it [...]

DEHRA DUN, DHNS: Top leaders of the Uttarakhand Mahila Manch (UMM) were on Thursday, taken into custody in the State Assembly, upon raising slogans to make Gairsain the permanent capital of the hill state.
As soon as the slogan shouting began in the visitors’ gallery, alert marshals took Kamala Pant, President of UMM, a regional party, [...]

NOTE: This is a potentially dangerous situation where PAC units are being trained to engage insurgents on the Nepal, possibly further escalating the conflict that sees no end in sight without a mediated settlement.
[India News]: Undisclosed location, Jan 18 : Police in Uttaranchal, are giving guerrilla combat training to its border units following fears that [...]

Nitin Jugran Bahuguna
January 16, 2005
When Pushpa Rana was elected gram pradhan (village council head) of the Attakfarm panchayat in the hill state of Uttaranchal in north India, she vowed to work for the betterment of her community. To keep herself well informed, she made frequent trips to the block office to find out about all [...]

[India News]: Jim Corbett National Park, Jan 12 : Uttaranchal is trying to woo eco-tourists to its remote but breathtakingly beautiful landscapes, and for this the state is trying to rope in thousands of tribals and villagers to make their attempt easy.
The tribals being roped in are inhabitants of the states’ forests, they are being [...]

[India News]: Dehra Dun, Jan 10 : Activists of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) today clashed with police, which used water canons to disperse them as they tried to gherao the assembly house on the opening day of the winter session demanding that Gairsain be made the state’s permanent capital.
As police tried to stop UKD workers’ [...]

[India News]: Dehradun, Jan 9 : The winter session of the Uttaranchal assembly, which begins tomorrow, is expected to be stormy with the opposition gearing up to corner the N D Tiwari government on the issue of increasing unemployment and development issues.
Ahead of the session, the government asked the opposition members to ensure smooth functioning [...]

Tribune News Service, New Delhi, January 5
Despite the highest female workforce participation, women in Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal have no property rights, which often leads to lands remaining barren, because women unable to work on them can neither sell them nor give them away.
This was pointed out in a report compiled by Mr Vijay Vaidya [...]

[India News]: Dehra Dun, Jan 4 : Uttaranchal’s protected forest cover, which accounts for 23 per cent of its geographical area, is fast shrinking with several species of flora and fauna on the verge of extinction, according to a report by the state Pollution Control Board.
The report on the condition of the environment in Uttaranchal [...]