Jotirmay Thapliyal
Tribune News Service, Dehradun, July 14
The Virender Dikshit recommendations favouring Dehradun over Gairsain and other cities as permanent capital of Uttarakhand has stirred a hornet’s nest.
While many back Dehradun as permanent capital, there is a clear opinion in favour of a capital in the hills. [more]

Umesh Dewan
Tribune News Service, Dehradun, May 30
After spending two years in jail on the charges of being a Naxalite, Binayak Sen is a happy man today, as the Apex Court had issued orders granting him bail.
But, in Uttarakhand, Parshant Rahi, a former journalist, is still languishing in jail on similar charges.
His 27-year-old daughter Shikha Rahi, [...]

Almost 20 per cent of litchi trees in the city have vanished with the spurt in construction activities ever since the city was awarded interim capital status. Hundreds of litchi trees have been felled by private colonisers in alleged connivance with politicians and the police, despite protests
Jotirmay Thapliyal
Tribune News Service, Dehradun, May 28
The number of [...]

Sandeep Rawat
Tribune News Service
Haridwar, May 18
The election results in Haridwar constituency have revealed that voters have totally rejected the “hill versus plain” issue, forcing the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party to rethink upon the issue that paid them rich dividends during 2004 polls. [more]

BD Kasniyal, Tribune
Pitthoragarh, May 19
Villagers of Kumaon, disappointed with their elected representatives for failure to provide them water, roads and electricity, boycotted the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections. The EVMs installed in their polling booths did not register a single vote.
The villagers of Sumgarh in Bageshwar district were disappointed with the construction of a tunnel in [...]

Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / Dehra Dun May 04, 2009
Although both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the two main parties in Uttarakhand, are targeting each other for not improving the economic health of the hill state, politics on the real developmental issues is yet to pick up momentum despite the Lok [...]

Subhash Mishra, India Today
Lucknow, December 30, 2008
Gloom and desperation continues to engulf the small hilly state of Uttarakhand, created eight years back in 2000 as economic disparity and development continues to widen the rift between the hilly and plain regions of the state.
A number of Uttarakhand people sacrificed their lives, bore the brunt [...]

The recent outrageous behaviour of ABVP-affiliated students at Garhwal and Kumaon Universities who ransacked their respective administrative offices has brought to the fore the growing lawlessness and impunity which the ruling party’s outfits are imposing on the state. The ABVP in this case are acting as stormtroopers for the government as it runs into tough [...]

By Our Staff Reporter
Garhwal Post, August 4, 2008
Ramnagar, 3 Aug: The Uttarakhand Parivartan Abhiyan has held a two day political meeting in Ramnagar. The main aim of the meeting was to build a political alternative in the state.
The Central Convener of the Abhiyan, PC Tiwari, addressed the meeting and said that the Congress, BJP and [...]

Dehradun, June 21 (IANS) Noted environmentalist G.D. Agarwal and fellow activists, on a hunger strike since June 13 to protest construction of dams on the river Ganga, had to wind up their agitation Saturday evening after a crowd of 400 people shouted slogans against them. “The demonstrators were virtually gheraoed (cricled) by the crowd who [...]