Dehra Dun : As the present Congress government headed by chief minister Vijay Bahuguna gets ready to celebrate its one year in office on March 13, the people of Uttarakhand can only look back for the years of neglect to their hopes and aspirations and a dream and visions of [...]

Dehra Dun : The number of leopards and tigers dying in Uttarakhand is disturbing. And though the forest authorities are conveniently passing off the deaths as either natural or due to illness or a fight for territorial rights, the fact remains that wild life lovers are now resting their hopes [...]

Dehra Dun : Finance minister P Chidambaram may have done a tight rope walk while making the budget proposals for 2013-14, but for the people of Uttarakhand, all hopes of ushering in an economic boom and uplifting their lot have been dashed. There was nothing for this small hill state [...]

Dehradun : Uttarakhand may be known for its bio-diversity and its forests abound with wild life. But given the apathy of the state government towards the wild animals as also that of its forest department, rampant killing, specially of big cats like the leopard and tigers has been reported time [...]

Dehra Dun : While railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal may have disappointed the people of Uttarakhand as there was no mention of the much hyped Rishikesh-Karanprayag railway line, but he definitely gave something for wild life lovers in this small hill state to cheer about. In his budget speech, Bansal [...]

Dehra Dun: The much publicized Rishikesh-Karanprayag line, whose foundation was laid by much fanfare by the Congress on Nov 9, 2011 at Gauchar, in the run up to the vidhan sabha elections in Uttarakhand which were due in February 2012, has become a political lollipop, to be used by the [...]

Dehra Dun : This small state of Uttarakhand boasts of a rich wildlife in its national parks, sanctuaries and forests, but the manner in which animals are dying courtesy the callous neglect and least concern by concerned authorities, it is but a matter of time, when the abundant and luxuriant [...]

Dehra Dun : The doors of the Gangotri temple, at a height of 3100 metres, will open for the devotees on May 13 after having been closed for the winters. The doors will open at 2-25 p m according to secretary of the Samiti, Suresh Semwal. He said that the [...]

Dehra Dun: The union ministry of forest and environment has asked the Wild Life Institute here to undertake the conservation of the Great Indian Bustard, a species which is declining fast and only a few hundred of the birds can now be seen in the country. Though it is said [...]

Dehra Dun: Despite having a hydel power potential of over 22,000 MWs, Uttarakhand, is now looking forward towards the central budget, hoping that it will get an allocation of a coal block, so that it can fall back on thermal power to meet the pressing shortage in supply and demand [...]