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 from one town after another, CPI(M) activists and a spectrum [...]

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 movement and by bringing it in the Assembly, the government [...]

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 rural business hubs is taking shape with Uttaranchal and Rajasthan [...]

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 Atul Sati, Convenor of the Citizens’ Struggle Committee of Joshimath [...]