Dehra Dun : The survey conducted by Education World on India School Rankings has been more or less sweet and sour for the schools of Uttarakhand. While amongst the boarding schools, The Doon School managed to retain its number two slot, the premium girls’ school, Welham Girls has gone down [...]

Dehra Dun : ‘Miyaro Garhwal deedo kano bhagyan, dood ki dhaar deedo, dood ki dhaar’ is an old folk song of Garhwal, which roughly translated reads ‘how blessed is my Garhwal dear ones, with falls of ilk dear ones, falls of milk’. But it is now truly folklore, for the [...]

Dehra Dun: For those who have helped the setting up of resorts and other infrastructure in the buffer areas of the Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand and are now batting for allowing tourism in these areas, there is something to take note of. The number of tigers in the park [...]

Dehra Dun : How can the Haridwar district authorities in Uttarakhand be so naïve as to be unaware of the laws and rules governing the wildlife parks and sanctuaries in the country to allow mining in the garb of leveling an agricultural field, in the river beds inside the Rajaji [...]

Dehra Dun: The Corbett National Park area has already become a source of worry not only for wild life lovers but for those protecting the tiger habitat and now it is the Rajaji Sanctuary in Uttarakhand that is causing nightmares to the concerned authorities. The union ministry of environment and forests [...]

Dehra Dun : The by-election to the Tehri Lok Sabha seat in Uttarakhand, scheduled for Oct 10, could have far reaching repercussions. The high commands of both the BJP and the Congress are aware of the fact, which is perhaps why they are resorting to all tactics to ensure that [...]

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 [...]