Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority: a pyramid of sleaze and slime
byDehra Dun : If there is an office that has become synonymous with corruption, it is the Mussoorie Dehra Development Authority (MDDA). Though CCTV…
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Joneja, 15, becomes youngest Indian to climb Everest
byNew Delhi: At 15 years and seven months, Raghav Joneja has become the youngest Indian to scale Mount Everest, climbing the peak with five teenage…
Gurgaon is staring at a water crisis
byGurgaon: Gurgaon may be heading for a water crisis. Not only are ground water levels dropping alarmingly, but a lot of – wastage of water…
Haryana gets only 58.82 lakh tonnes of wheat
byChandigarh: Contrary to expectations of a bumper wheat arrival of nearly 90 lakh tonnes, Haryana has seen wheat arrival of only 58.82 lakh tonnes…
Himachal guest houses a drain on the exchequer
byShimla: There is one class of tourists Himachal Pradesh is not happy with: bureaucrats and VIPs who burden the exchequer by thronging government guest houses…
Three killed in Himachal road accident
byShimla: Three pilgrims, including two women, were killed and 29 others injured in Himachal Pradesh today when their overloaded vehicle skidded off the road and…
IIAS to hold seminar on Kashmir conflict in Shimla
byShimla: The Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) here is organizing a three-day seminar from Monday on human dimensions of the conflict in Jammu and…
Uttarakhand CM admits system is corrupt
byDehra Dun : It has been only days that Hill Post reported that the bureaucracy of Uttarakhand was the bane of this small mountain…
Villagers poisoning tigers in Uttarakhand
byDehra Dun : This year till June 1, nine tigers were killed. Fifteen were killed in 2012 and 24 in 2011. All of them,…
Migration from villages continues to plague Uttarakhand
byDehra Dun : The Census Report for the period 2002-2011 for Uttarakhand released on Friday has only confirmed that the various governments in this…