ARCHI RASTOGI / CSE
Down to Earth, May 31, 2007
in the first week of May, 200-odd Van Gujjar families started moving towards their summer homes in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand. They had been stranded around Vikasnagar near Dehradun before a response to a right to information application revealed that Uttaranchal’s forest department had rescinded an earlier decision [...]

Chipko Pustakalaya Evam Sanghralaya and Beej Bachao Andolan organized a meeting on 8 May 2007, which was attended by about 50 people from nearby villages besides individuals from Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkashi, Rishikesh and Dehra Dun. As most of local people reach such meetings only after completing their household chores, this one too started late, [...]

On May 14, esteemed author and historian Durga Charan Kala passed away at his home in Ranikhet at the age of 84. His recently released biographical study of “Pahari Wilson”, the British forester and adventurer who made Uttarkashi his home in the 1800s, won the Himalayan Club Kekoo Naoroji Memorial Book Award for Himalayan literature [...]

Melaghat Khatima (Uttarakhand), May 13 : Amid the rhythmic beating of drums and singing, many villagers in Uttarakhand married off two trees in a specially organized wedding ceremony on Sunday.
As a banyan tree’s branches got entwined with that of a peepal tree, many superstitious villagers read a love story in it and declared them [...]

Utpal Parashar
Hindustan Times
Dehradun, May 13, 2007
Every cloud has a silver lining. Although Mayawati’s unexpected win has sent shockwaves in the BJP, Uttarakhand is hopeful of getting its long-pending issues with the neighbouring state resolved soon.
Despite terming BSP’s return to power in Uttar Pradesh as a “cause for worry” for the BJP, Uttarakhand Chief Minister BC [...]

Badrinath (Uttarakhand), May 8: Uttarakhand’s holy town of Badrinath, known for its beatific and peaceful surroundings, is facing the threat of loosing its serenity to rampant urbanisation.
Scores of constructions sites have sprung across the city. The Himalayan town has seen deforestation owing to accelerated construction work and a high level of pollution, attributed by a [...]

Divya Iyer
CNN-IBN, May 05, 2007
New Delhi: Global warming is at your doorstep. And climate change is a reality in India. Pushkar Singh Negi from Ratapani, in Pohri Garhwal, knows this best.
His fields are rich and like all the farmers in the district, he says it’s the blessing of the river a few hundred kilometres downstream.
In [...]