UANA Annual Convention-2007
By Our Staff Reporter
Garhwal Post, July 31, 2007
Dehradun, 30 July: Highlanders from all corners of America and also from Canada participated in the annual convention of the Uttaranchal Association of North America (UANA) in New Jersey on 28 July. The annual function brought a record attendance this year to bring cheer to the [...]

By Asheesh Goel / Dailyindia.com/ANI
Dehradun, July 29: With an increasing number of locals in Uttarakhand vying each other for high-rise buildings, the lives of several people in Dehradun, are under threat as the region lies in the earthquake prone zone. Officials with the Geological Survey of India have observed that unavailability of land is the [...]

Government Brands Them ‘Anti-Development’
Liberation, 24 July 2007
The industrial area demarcated by the State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttaranchal Ltd. (SIDCUL) in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, may not be an SEZ – but it is certainly a ‘special’ new type of ‘integrated’ industrial estate – the kind where massive workers’ protests are taboo as is unionisation. Since April, [...]

Posted: 23 Jul 2007
by Neeta Lal
Every year some 600,000 pilgrims make their way through the Valley of Flowers in the Indian Himalayas, and until recently, left behind a trail of garbage. Now the Valley and the adjoining Nanda Devi National Park has been cleaned and restored, thanks to the efforts of a diminutive female Forest [...]

In the foothills of the Indian mountains, a plan to offer walking holidays for tourists could be the salvation of five ancient villages. Peter Hughes reports.
London Telegraph, 21 June 2007
I can see them now, standing on a ridge above me, their saris rinsed in sunlight. They were waving wildly, laughing and shouting my name, “Peter, [...]

Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka), 15 July 2007
(Reuters) HUNDREDS of thousands of pilgrims flocking to holy sites in the Himalayas are fouling fragile mountain ecosystems with rubbish, human waste, air pollution and the deforestation that comes with development.
Hindus believe the Himalayas are the abode of Lord Shiva, the god of destruction and regeneration, and devotees trek [...]

BS Reporter / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun July 05, 2007
After sanctioning mega projects as big as the 2,400 MW Tehri hydel project, the Uttarakhand government is now trying to focus on small power plants. These projects would be of .5 to 5 MW of capacity.
For this, the government has joined hands with Infrastructure Leasing and [...]

Caste Hindus who disrupted Dalit cremation acquitted as court loses case papers
Rakesh Bhatnagar
Thursday, July 05, 2007
NEW DELHI: Twenty-two years after around 20 upper caste Hindus were accused of meting out inhuman treatment to the body of a Dalit which had been brought for cremation, the Uttarakhand high court has acquitted all of them. Reason: the [...]

Former actress devotes herself to India’s forlorn
By Cassie Biggs
Associated Press
Published July 4, 2007
RISHIKESH, India — Maggie O’Hara may have left the false eyelashes and spike heels behind when she ditched Hollywood for the banks of India’s sacred Ganges River, but the fiftysomething still knows how to command an audience.
Up the winding mountain path, at the [...]

Combat Law Vol 6 Issue 4, July - August 2007

The struggle for human rights is far from over in the new state of Uttarakhand. Suresh Nautiyal reports on the local organisations’ strong will to pressurise the government to respect human rights and protect the environment through sustainable management of natural resources, for their unrestricted exploitation [...]