Dehradun : If the recent utterances of Kumaon University vice chancellor, Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar and now director of AIIMS, Rishikesh, Dr Raj Kumar are to be believed, the Uttarakhand bureaucracy is its bane. Though the residents of this small mountain state have been claiming ever since Uttarakhand came into existence [...]

Dehra Dun : NCC teams climbs Mt Everest; Sanawar boys on the peak; twin sisters make it to the top; first Indian amputee on Mt Everest; Pakistani brother and sister make it to the peak; SSB jawans scale Mt Everest, are headlines that one saw in the newspapers over the [...]

Dehra Dun : They call themselves MAD (making a difference), and that is what the people think these crazy youth really are. Rather than doing internships for their profession during their college holidays, they are seen braving the hot summer sun, cleaning the streams of the polythene and other wastes [...]

Dehra Dun : Success governments of Uttarakhand, regardless of whether they were of the Congress or the BJP, have not only trampled upon the hopes and expectation of the people with punity, but have infringed upon the autonomy of the Universities, which have hit the education standards and deprived the [...]

Having spearheaded the statehood movement, the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal is a non-entity in the state politics today, making most question what all the violence and protests were for when the issue was being hotly agitated.

Dehradun : Come June and a vast majority of the residents of Dehradun district in Uttarakhand will be deprived of getting the subsidy on LPG cylinders, as from the beginning of the month the central government has decided to give the subsidy directly to the beneficiaries in their bank accounts. [...]

Dehra Dun : While the Bahuguna brothers – Harsh Vardhan and Jai Vardhan – automatically come to mind in this capital city of Uttarakhand, when Mount Everest is mentioned, but there were celebrations since Sunday morning when news first came to town that the twin sisters, Tashi Mallik and Nungshi [...]

Dehra Dun : It is something that the cops or for that matter the excise department should have done – preventing bootlegging. But with both paying a Nelson’s eye to the going on, for whatever reasons, the womenfolk of the region decided to take the matter in their hands. And [...]

Dehradun : This capital city of Uttarakhand was known for its quality schools even before this small mountain state was carved out of Uttar Pradesh. But this is perhaps for the first time that a student of one of the schools of the city has topped the country in the [...]

Dehradun : The recent statement of Uttarakhand Speaker, Govind Singh Kunjwal, that social, political and bureaucratic corruption was eating the vitals of this small mountains state and the need of the hour was all citizens to fight against it, has released a cat amongst the pigeons, with hectic efforts being [...]