By Rajiv Rawat
Garhwal Post, 26 October 2006
As a past office bearer and long-time member of both the Canadian and US Uttarakhandi associations, I look with sympathy upon the UKD’s attempts to generate funds (Garhwal Post, 25 Oct) to counter the powerful political machines of the BJP and Congress in the upcoming elections. Everyone loves an [...]

By Rajiv Rawat
Garhwal Post, 19 October 2006
JOSHIMATH, 18 Oct: This past weekend, the last of three international teams departed for Dharansi Pass as part of the Inaugural Nanda Devi Women’s Trek. Stopping over at eminent journalist Harish Chandola’s guest house near Auli, the group of four women including two Americans, a Canadian, and an Indian, [...]

Sanket Upadhyay, NDTV
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 (Gangotri, Uttaranchal):
The first Indian woman to climb the Nanda Devi peak, Harshwanti Bisht, celebrates Diwali by cleaning up the garbage left behind by the many pilgrimages near the Gangotri Gaumukh glacier in Uttaranchal.
Along with that she is responsible for the first successful replantation of the birch or the bhoj [...]

The Hindu, 19 October 2006
DEHRA DUN: Eleven Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) activists were arrested and security around the Virasat festival venue was strengthened after they climbed up the stage and tried to obstruct the ongoing cultural programme on Tuesday evening.
Raising slogans against the organisers and the State Government for having “insulted” the noted folk singer [...]

Sanjeev Singh Bariana meets Dr Avdhaash Kaushal, the man behind the go-green movement as well as several other projects to improve the lot of bonded labour in Dehra Dun
Guarding the fragile ecosystems in Uttaranchal, the Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK) has inspired conservationists in saving the green cover.
What started as a lonely walk [...]

Dehra Dun, October 12
The Uttaranchal Assembly today passed a Bill with majority changing the name of the hill state to Uttarakhand. Participating in the discussion, Uttaranchal BJP chief Bhagat Singh Koshiyari expressed satisfaction that the bill found widespread support cutting across party lines.
Earlier, the Bill was presented by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Indira Hridayesh in the [...]

Rajiv Rawat
Garhwal Post, 11 October 2006
DEHRADUN, 10 Oct: Right to information as a key route to empowering the people of India, was the hot topic of discussion on the eve of Loknayak J.P. Narayan’s birth anniversary this October 9 and 10th. Coming also a year after the original Right to Information Act (RTI) became law, [...]