By Vinay Chadda, New Tehri (Uttaranchal):
The Tehri Hydro Development Corporation. Ltd. (THDC) may have won a long battle to rehabilitate the persons displaced by the Tehri Hydel Project, but it seems that fresh challenges have arisen after the completion of the relocation drive.
Prakash Kumar, a resident, says that the relocation has had an adverse impact [...]

DEHRA DUN: The issue of rehabilitation of people displaced by the Tehri Dam is hotting up again with more areas getting submerged under the Bhaghirathi river and the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party demanding a fresh compensation package for those affected.
The rising waters of the 2400 MW Tehri dam reservoir has also blocked the [...]

Some of the 115 dismissed workers of Divya Pharmacy. They have been on dharna for more than half a year.
The Brinda Karat-Baba Ramdev affair that exploded into the media in January 2006 has thus far been so badly reported that a few salient points need to be highlighted:
1. The various Babas and Mahants of Hardwar [...]

Frontline, Volume 23 - Issue 02, Jan. 28 - Feb. 10, 2006
Serious allegations are made against a Haridwar-based producer of Ayurvedic medicines on two counts - violation of labour laws and consumers’ right to information.
A CONTROVERSY involving yoga and pranayama guru Ramdev and Rajya Sabha member and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat [...]

DHNS,Dehra Dun:
The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD), a key regional party, has embarked upon a novel campaign targeting “corrupt” government officials in Uttaranchal.
The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD), a key regional party, has embarked upon a novel campaign targeting “corrupt” government officials in Uttaranchal. As part of its strategy, the UKD, which spearheaded the Uttarakhand statehood movement [...]

Tania Saili, Saturday, January 21, 2006 (Bakhroti)
Bakhroti in Uttranchal’s Tehri Garhwal, which was considered an ‘ideal village’ way back in 1975, is on the brink of extinction.
Perched atop a hillock, the village was once bustling with four generations of one family for the past 100 years, who re-located to the region from Almora years ago.
Surrounded [...]

Dehra Dun: The Dehradun bandh called by the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) seeking unconditional release of their party workers arrested while demonstrating in the tehsil a few days back evoked mixed response today as most of the business houses in the city area remained closed but markets in the outskirts functioned normally.
Seventeen demonstrators were detained [...]

Down to Earth
January 15, 2006
As the old Tehri town drowns in the water impounded by the Tehri dam, some way upstream another hydroelectric power project is making an unwelcome appearance. Work on a hydel project, located on the Bhilangana river, a tributary of the Bhagirathi, is being carried out with heavy protection — under serious [...]

By Ashok Misra, Garhwal Post, January 15 - 21, 2006
There is no doubt that globalisation of the economy has drawn Indians towards a Western lifestyle and higher levels of consumption. This has meant a rise in the cost of living and level of aspirations. Anybody not struggling to avoid starvation is looking to meet a [...]

The CPI(M)-affiliated Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) today demanded the intervention of both the Central and Uttaranchal governments to ensure that those responsible for violation of labour laws and the Drugs and Cosmetic Act in the Divya Pharmacy at Haridwar were brought to book.
They also demanded the immediate reinstatement of as many as 110 [...]