Cleaning Beas: Many Kullu buildings not connected with sewerage system
byKullu: Defaulters despite repeated reminders who are not availing sewerage connections within the town civic limits here face the ire of irrigation and public…
Environment
Green tribunal taxes 10 year old vehicles plying to Rohtang Pass
byManali: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently passed orders directing the state government to impose penalties on decade old vehicles plying on the Manali-Rohtang highway….
Pushing hydro in Kinnaur could turn people anti-state – Tribals
byCritical of the Satluj River Basin Cumulative Environment Impact Assessment study conducted, tribal population of Kinnaur, an Indo-China border district, have questioned the recommendations…
Airport Authority of India to Construct 45 Girls Toilets in Himachal
byShimla: Airport Authority of India (AAI) joined Prime Minister Narinder Modi’s ambitious Swatchh Vidalaya Campaign here in Himachal by starting construction work of girls…
Trek route from Badrinath to Kedarnath in Uttarakhand to reopen
byDehradun: It is generally believed that in the days of yore, not only the priests of the Kedarnath and Yamnotri shrines, but even the…
Sadhus oppose Ministers plan to stop Ganga rituals
byDehra Dun : The recent statement by union minister Uma Bharti that the submersion of ashes in the Ganga, cremation of bodies on the…
Maletha’s kool greens will pass on to GenNext in Uttarakhand
byDehra Dun : Thankfully chief minister Harish Rawat has assured that none of the four stone crushers that had been given the nod (in…
Uttarakhand on lookout for vehicles ferrying monkeys
byDehra Dun : It’s no monkey business, but the problems that the simians are creating both in the urban and rural areas of Uttarakhand,…
A clean Ganga by 2016 — will Uttarakhand do its bit?
byDehra Dun : Cleaning of the Ganga will be done before the Ardh Kumbh that falls in Haridwar in 2016. Though incredible as it may…
Uttarakhand Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra piles garbage on alpine pastures
byReports appearing in a vernacular daily painted a grim picture of the sad state in which the Bedini ‘bugyal’ has been left after the yatra. “The fresh grass that appears after the snow melts in the region has been trampled to oblivion and one can see nothing but mud, dirt and garbage where earlier there was a carpet of green. Trenches had been dug round the tents to prevent rain water from seeping into them, and they have neither been filled up nor leveled leaving the entire alpine pasture in a sad shape”, the report reads.