Business Standard / New Delhi / Dehra Dun March 23, 2007
The new Uttarakhand government is likely to give preference to small dams over big ones like Tehri in its new policy guidelines for the power sector. This could mean the death-knell for the 6,480 Mw Pancheswhar project.
An indication to this effect was given by Chief [...]

A forum for the children of the mountains.
By Santosh Mehta
Hindu Business Line, March 23, 2007
Twenty-five years of work in the region has proved to the Shri Bhuvneshwari Mahila Ashram (SBMA), a Garhwal-based voluntary organisation in Uttarakhand, that it pays to tap the energy and idealism of children. In an effort to change the way the [...]

Killing her, not so softly
Is global warming killing the Himalayan glaciers, including Gangotri-Gaumukh - the origin of Ganga?
By Akash Bisht
Surendra Rawat, 28, of the National Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, is a professional mountaineer. His job has taken him many times in the last five years to the breathtaking Gangotri Glacier near Gaumukh- the fount [...]

Dhananjay Mahapatra & Nitin Sethi
Times of India, March 7, 2007
NEW DELHI: The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended that the Uttarakhand government deploy adequate number of officials to protect the Ganga basin area.
On the advice of the Wildlife Institute of India, the Uttarakhand government had mulled over a proposal to stop pilgrims at the temple [...]

Times of India, March 6, 2007
Yogendra Yadav
One hates to be a spoilsport. But the interpretations being made about the election verdict in three states involve three common but erroneous assumptions.
Assumption one is that whoever has won the election has secured a popular mandate. Assumption two is that the popular mandate for the three states in [...]