Garhwal Post, 26 September 2006
A unique graduation ceremony took place at the Nerhu Institute of Mountaineering on Saturday, where thirty-eight youth hailing mostly from the upper reaches of Chamoli, but also from Uttarkashi and Pithoragarh districts, completed their basic mountaineering course.
Organized by SPECS (Uttarakhand) and sponsored by the Winterline Foundation (USA), composed of alumni of [...]

Lalit Pande: Qualification: MIT, IIT-D. Now runs environmental education programme, USN, in 2,500 Uttarakhand schools.
Outlook 18 September 2006
A quiet man, someone said. You may find it hard to make him talk. But when it matters, Lalit Pande can talk. The late afternoon light, streaming into his office in a 100-year-old Kumaoni building off Almora’s [...]

By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
…Occasionally, however, Indians themselves can’t agree on which name and whose version of history to use. In 2000, the people of the hill country northeast of Delhi celebrated the creation of their new state - only to discover that the federal government had chosen to [...]