Uttarakhand villagers lured to fall back upon opium cultivation
Dehradun : With the opium poppy clandestinely grown by villagers in Tuini area of Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand now beginning to blossom, officials of…
Polluting the Ganga
Dehradun : Even as the high-profile meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority, chaired by none other than Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself,…
Uttarakhand babudom runs its parallel writ
Dehradun : A couple of days back Uttarakhand transport minister Surendra Rakesh raided the RTO office here following a tip-off that money was the…
Scams : the hallmark of Uttarakhand
Dehradun : It goes to the dubious distinction of this mountain state that both the elected governments after the formation of Uttarakhand have had…
Uttarkhand High Court orders suspension of principal secretary
Dehradun : In the perhaps first ever order of its kind, which will perhaps make the high profile bureaucracy of Uttarakhand that lives in…
Uttarakhand toys with handing out umemployment allowance from August
Dehradun : This small mountain state is under tremendous financial constraints as its coffers are near empty. Despite this the Congress government is seriously…
Prayers to cost more at Kedarnath
Dehradun : The recent increase in service taxes in the union budget, which has made everything more costly, has also had its impact on…
Plight of Bhatgaon: A reflection of “development” of Uttarakhand
Dehradun : It was hoped to be going down memory lane when initially the trip was planned. But what transpired could at best be…
Another feline killed in rising man-leopard conflict in Uttarakhand hills
Dehradun : Man-animal conflict, or to be more precise man-leopard conflict has touched an all time high in the hill districts of this mountain…
430 acres under contraband opium cultivation in Uttarakhand
Dehradun : Fears have been expressed by the Narcotics control Bureau that opium produced from clandestinely grown poppy plants in the state was either…