Dehra Dun: Both the BJP and Congress are at loggerheads over the renaming of certain institutions in Uttarakhand by the Vijay Bahuguna government. Perhaps both are not aware of the age old saying that a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. The more important thing, as [...]

Dehra Dun: Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna is finding the going getting tough for him. This perhaps could explain why he is on a trip to Delhi at the slightest pretext. Obviously, if party sources are to be believed, it is to inform the high command of the problems that [...]

Dehradun : There is a lot of talk of improving the standard of educations in schools all over the country. There is even talk that the allotment of the state budget towards education should be improved, so that better quality of education can be imparted. But in Uttarakhand, right in [...]

Dehradun : It is now almost 12 years that the hill districts of Uttar Pradesh were carved out to create the small mountain state, Uttarakhand. Tragically it has also been 12 years of non-governance at all levels, so it would be wrong to find fault just with the state’s forest [...]

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand forest department has more than one reason to thank the Supreme Court for banning tourist activity in the core tiger reserves. While it may become meaning ful to prevent if not stop altogether poachers entry to the core areas of the Corbett National Park, which if late [...]

Dehra Dun: A project to undertake an air ambulance service in the state, which was initially shown a lot of interest by the previous BJP government in Uttarakhand has been forgotten. Even the proposal for the project, which made headlines over two years, when initially proposed, back seems to have [...]

Dehradun : Chief minister Vijay Bahuguna has found himself in a piquant situation on more than one occasion and more often than not that it is the Congress legislators or leaders that have brought about the embarrassing situation. The latest of these is the issue raised by the chairman of [...]

Dehra Dun: Even as the world is showing its concern for the dwindling number of tigers in the wild, the apathetic condition of the Uttarakhand government towards the felines is a matter of grave concern. In fact its shows its care-a-less attitude towards environmental concern from the very fact that [...]

Dehra Dun : Concerned at the large scale decline in the number of house sparrows, which were once a common sight in almost every house spread through the country, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, a navratna company, in a rare move dedicated its Foundation Day to the bird, in [...]

Dehradun/Jammu/Manali/New Delhi: Twelve people have died, nearly 40 are missing and hundreds are trapped after torrential rain led to flash floods, cloud bursts and landslides in sub-Himalayan Uttarakhand, Jammu and Himachal Pradesh, officials said Sunday. The incessant rain is likely to continue, the met office reported. Rescue operations are in [...]