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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
TopicNainital

Topic: Nainital

Kumaon Festival of Literature and Arts is doing something no one else is—refusing to grow

Most people associated with the festival—whether it’s the hospitality partners, travel coordinators, and volunteers—share a family history of over 100 years in Nainital.

Tourists keep their cars clean, use hills as dustbins. Can anyone say atithi devo bhava?

The Nainital littering incident shows that many tourists can’t manage the simple act of putting their rubbish where it belongs. Their trash is a signature that reads—‘tourists were here’

Help! The mountains need saving, say authors & environmentalists at Himalayan Echoes lit fest

At the 2024 festival, several speakers emphasised the need to preserve the mountain system, stressing that the key to this is passing down knowledge and traditions through generations.

‘Shifting Uttarakhand HC won’t resolve accessibility issue. Create a permanent bench instead’

A permeant bench of the Uttarakhand High Court should be created in Dehdradun. Here's how it will help and why the capital city is the right choice.

Judges’ desire, lawyers’ ire—Uttarakhand High Court relocation order brings out old wounds

Although the Supreme Court has stayed the Uttarakhand High Court order for a plan to shift the court out of Nainital, it has revived insecurities that led to the state’s formation in 2000.

Nainital administration deploys large police forces in district after Haldwani area violence

The development comes after five people were killed in the violence that erupted after the anti-encroachment drive on Thursday, following which a curfew was imposed in the area.

On Camera

India’s nuclear-power goal needs more than capital

New Delhi has finally accepted that the base load power demand of the future will need supplementing, and nuclear plants are one way to go about it.

Coastal states Maharashtra, TN, Gujarat top India’s exports index, landlocked UP a surprise performer

Releasing Export Preparedness Index report, NITI Aayog CEO says Centre has ‘ticked a lot of boxes’, & responsibility of driving the next phase of export growth now rests with states.

Rafale deal to be inked in 2026, final assembly line in Nagpur, Indian firms to be roped in

The proposed project costing about Rs 3.25 lakh crore will entail procurement of 18 aircraft in fly away condition & the rest made in India with up to 60% indigenous content.

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.