From mashal marches to daily dharnas to letters written in blood to PM Narendra Modi, Uttarakhand’s hill districts are fighting for the right to healthcare.
The ninth edition of the Valley of Words (VoW) Festival concluded on Sunday after two days of sessions on literature, culture, sustainability, and public policy.
The Valley of Words Festival in Dehradun will take place from 25-26 October, celebrating the silver jubilee of the Himalayan state with historian Shekhar Pathak delivering the keynote address.
Hindu–Muslim couples report being refused rooms, hotels say they have 'got orders from above', while police say they have not sent any directives to hotels.
Uttarakhand has the technology, funds, and administrative capacity to become the first zero-poverty state in India, thus fulfilling the first two Sustainable Development Goals.
More than 5,000 people attended the final event, where all contestants wore ethnic and Indian outfits. The controversy arose only during rehearsals, when the girls wore Western clothes.
Rajeev Pratap Singh's pregnant wife says that in the days before his death, he appeared disturbed & frustrated after getting threat calls to pull down videos from his YouTube channel.
Protests started from Dehradun but have now spread to other places including Uttarkashi, Shiv Nagar, Srinagar & Gopeshwar. Students are on hunger strike in Haldwani.
The cloudburst occurred late on Wednesday night in the Nandanagar Ghat area of Chamoli, triggering flash floods and debris flow that buried multiple residential structures.
Uttarakhand govt had earlier denied probe against IFS officer Rahul despite initiating departmental action over alleged illegal tree felling & unauthorised construction in Jim Corbett.
The leaders of the new establishment, including Mohammad Yunus, should realize by now the danger of their single-minded focus on eradicating Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League.
It will be tough for Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra to get right. Rupee is the worst-performing Asian currency this year against the dollar.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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