OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Telegraph, September 29, 2008 Lucknow, Sept. 28: A group representing farmers is planning a Chipko-like movement against the Uttarakhand government’s invitation to Tata Motors to set up a Nano plant in the state. The company already runs a plant in Pantnagar, and chief minister B.C. Khanduri has offered it more land [...]

Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / Dehra Dun September 29, 2008, 0:08 IST The Uttarakhand government’s move to allot 50 acres of agriculture land to Tata Motors for housing purposes has hit a rough patch with Agriculture Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat expressing opposition to the use of farm land for industrial or any other use. [...]

Excerpted from Big Cats News Business Standard – New Delhi September 28, 2008, 0:38 IST The rampant poaching of leopards in the wilds of Uttarakhand is as alarming as the earlier revelation about vanishing tigers in protected areas, a development that forced the government to set up a special Tiger Task Force in 2005 for [...]

TAPAS CHAKRABORTY, The Telegraph, September 22 , 2008 Dehra Dun, Sept. 21: People in one of India’s most earthquake-prone zones had mastered the art of building multi-level buildings resistant to seismic movement about a thousand years ago, an engineering study of the structures has revealed. Researchers have found that ancient four-storey and five-storey buildings in [...]