Himachal’s vanishing rivers, damaging original habitats – German study
byShimla: Faulting the myopic Indian practice of project level environmental impact assessment (EIA) for extensive hydropower development in river basins of Himachal Pradesh, a…
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Dhumal’s son questions Virbhadra’s farm income rise as union steel minister
byShimla: Booked in a forgery case over a land deal, Mr Arun Dhumal, the younger son of former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal hit out…
Himachal power minister pitches for renewable energy to contain climate change
byShimla: Dipping into states hydropower potential by incentivizing generation through privatization of rivers and streams, at huge environmental cost, power minister Sujan Singh Pathania,…
Alarm bells for Uttarakhand CM
byDehradun : Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna seems to be spending more time in Delhi placating the Congress top brass, rather than in the…
Himachal goes soft on UP to settle power bill dues
byShimla: Finding it hard to recover power arrears from Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) even after having won a case in the Supreme Court,…
Tourist surge impacting Manali valley glaciers
byManali: Environmentalists say retreating glaciers and melting snows on high Himalayan peaks could impact millions of people in the Indian subcontinent who rely on rivers…
250 Daredevils hit the road for the 15th Raid de Himalaya
byShimla: More than 250 daredevils are to be out for the next six days on some of the most dangerous roads in the world…
Kedarnath pilgrimage re-opens after June calamity but not without hazards
byDehradun : The first batch of 43 pilgrims who had registered themselves at Guptkashi, left for the Kedarnath shrine which was thrown open to…
Central team raids Ramdev’s factory
byDehradun: As yog guru Swami Ramdev gets more vocal for Modi and anti-Congress, trouble seems to be mounting on him. A team of the…
Monsoon active in Uttarakhand in October after 38 years
byDehradun : The skies are still heavily overcast and the meteorological department has forecast heavy to very heavy widespread rains throughout Uttarakhand. In fact…