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 [...]

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 [...]

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- [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sidharth Mishra | New Delhi Daily Pioneer, March 1, 2007 At the end of the month-long election campaign, a general consensus prevailed that the BJP, though it would remain far ahead of the Congress, would fall short of the halfway mark. The matters were not helped for the saffron party with polls for Bajpur seat [...]