Press Trust of India, Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 0027 hrs IST Dehradun: Uttarakhand is likely to pass the much-awaited Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act, setting the stage for private companies like RIL and ITC to get into contract farming in the state and set up private mandis. Uttarakhand agriculture minister, Trivendra Singh Rawat [...]

Neena Sharma Tribune News Service Dehradun, May 24 A target of upper caste hegemony, economically weak craftsmen and artistes of Uttarakhand are facing the worst form of discrimination. Not only are they debarred from entering temples, casteist slurs are heaped on them regularly and they are even denied water from village source, a basic human [...]

Tribune News Services Pitthoragarh, May 18 After rain evaded the Kumaon region for more than a week, the water crisis in the region has deepened as traditional water sources that fulfil the maximum drinking water requirement of the region have gone dry. “In dozens of villages of Tarikhet and Dwarahat blocks of Almora district, villagers [...]

Rajeev Khanna Tribune News Service Nainital, May 16 The political establishment in Uttarakhand came in for heavy criticism from a group of intellectuals, social activists and people from other streams who had come together to analyse where the dream of having an “own ideal state” had evaporated. The group had got together to discuss the [...]

Dehradun is getting richer, but at great environmental cost, says SAUMYA TYAGI Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 19, May 15, 2010 SCENIC DEHRADUN, the capital of Uttarakhand, has traditionally been celebrated for its boarding schools. Topping the ranking game was always Doon School, which counts some of the most illustrious Indians among its alumni, including [...]

Our correspondent Tribune News Service Pitthoragarh, May 15 No rain-like condition in the hilly region of the state this mid summer has caused drinking water shortage and crisis of electricity generation in those mini and micro hydro electric schemes which are aimed at provide electricity to villages which are difficult to be covered by electricity [...]

Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / New Delhi / Dehra Dun May 14, 2010, 0:23 IST A couple of proposed special economic zones (SEZs), both in private and government sectors, in Uttarakhand have failed to make any headway. Though Parsvnath and other private players have put on hold their SEZ proposals, the government is also [...]

Mussoorie (Uttarakhand), May 12 (ANI): Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in 1994 banning illegal constructions, the illicit constructions in Uttarakhand’s Mussoorie city is reportedly affecting the beauty of the hills. The illegal construction here had stopped after the apex court’s verdict, but the rich and prosperous businessmen and hoteliers coming from other states continue to [...]

Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / New Delhi / Dehra Dun May 5, 2010 Here is good news for the water-starved Uttarakhand. After more than four years of experiments and research, a European Union river bank filtration (RBF) project has ignited new hopes to end the perennial drinking water problem in the hills. In what [...]

Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / New Delhi / Dehra Dun May 03, 2010, 0:27 IST Gangotri, Valley of Flowers and other highly eco-sensitive zones of the Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand may be becoming hot sites on the tourist map. But the Uttarakhand government now wants to put up more restrictions on travellers in order [...]