Register Live-In Relationships Or Face 6-Month Jail: Uttarakhand Civil Code
Uttarakhand UCC Bill: The Uniform Civil Code was tabled in the Uttarakhand Assembly Tuesday morning and, among other points, says children born out of live-in relationships will receive legal recognition.
One of the most exciting things about coming from a Kumaoni culture is our wedding festivities. In general, Indian weddings are a fun affair but every state has its own way of celebrating. Kumaoni way of life is women centric, women are the decision makers in the families as much as men. We celebrate the feminine and womanhood not just in our daily lives but also in our weddings. I like that we don't play Bollywood music for our dances but stick to our own culture and celebrate it. #Uttarakhand
Scientists say worse to come as Himalayan snow ceases
Himalayan ecologies and economies are heavily reliant on winter snowfall, but the necessary weather patterns – western disturbances in particular – are decreasing in frequency and intensity.
NHIDCL Hasn't Filed FIR Against Contractor Responsible for Collapsed Silkyara Tunnel: RTI Response
Navayuga Engineering Company Limited was also the primary contractor for the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway, where 20 workers and engineers lost their lives.
Hydro projects can get in-principle clearance before impact study: Govt to states
To be sure, the 2013 order said results of cumulative impact and carrying capacity studies will be considered while considering environment and forest clearance.
No Inquiry Report Yet But Silkyara Tunnel Work Resumes; Rat-Hole Miners Refuse Govt Reward: Reports
The rat-hole miners, who dug through the last 12 meters when drilling machines failed, say Uttarakhand government’s award of Rs 50,000 each is not commensurate with the risk they took. They call it a 'step-motherly treatment'.
Due to Cost and Time Concerns, Silkyara Tunnel Project Said No to Separate Escape Tunnel: Report
A late environmental impact assessment report, reviewed by the 'Indian Express', revealed that the situation – where 41 workers were trapped in the tunnel for 17 days – might have been avoided if the option of a separate escape tunnel had not been ruled out.
‘No one will remember us’: India’s hero ‘rat hole miners’ who helped rescue 41 men from the Himalayan tunnel
Just two hours after the men were rescued, a list of 90 men who took part in the effort was circulated by an Uttarakhand government official on a media WhatsApp group. Conspicuously missing were the names of the 12 “rat miners” who put their lives on the line to complete that final breakthrough.
On all fours in ‘rat holes’, the heroes of Silkyara scrape by on the margins
Rat-hole mining is banned in India as a dangerous practice; showered by praise, a 12-member team of rat-hole miners ask for human dignity, a house, a road, fair wages, and an assurance that such a collapse will never be repeated.
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: Who is rat-hole miner Munna Qureshi, hailed as operation's hero?
Rat-hole miners on Tuesday made the breakthrough possible in the Uttarkashi rescue operation as Munna Qureshi became the first miner to reach the trapped men.
Amidst relief that the trapped workers will soon be rescued, India shouldn’t forget the key warning from the collapsed tunnel – that the environmental impact assessment system is broken, M. Rajshekhar writes.
Char Dham Pariyojana: A High Risk Engineering Exercise
The prestigious Char Dham Pariyojana to widen roads to Uttarakhand’s pilgrimage sites is being rapidly pushed forward without heed to the environmental and social consequences. Several laws have been bypassed in the process.
Pushkar Singh Dhami, Nitish Kumar and the Media's Inability to Outrage When it Really Matters
At an event attended by the Uttarakhand CM, priest Dhirendra Shastri made incendiary comments against Muslims. These found no mention in the newspapers.
How state-backed Hindutva rhetoric is fuelling the ethnic cleansing of Uttarakhand
Extremist organisations project the hill state as the ‘holy land’ of Hindus and Muslims a ‘polluting presence’ unleashing a battery of ‘jihads’, writes Harsh Mander.
The Recipe for Disaster That Is Causing Destruction in Himalayan States
The disasters unfolding in the hill states are a result of unplanned development on unstable mountains that are already facing extreme weather events, scientists and environmentalists said. Without planned, resilience-friendly development and adaptation measures such as district-level micro plans to deal with the changing climate, there may be no respite for the people or the environment in these regions.
Govt Whataboutery & Inaction: Why Hate Speech Persists Despite The Supreme Court Wanting To Stop It
The Supreme Court has called hate speech a “menace” growing into Frankenstein’s monster, blamed it on “impotent” states, and ordered them to register suo moto FIRs. At the same time, the second most senior law officer in the country asked a Muslim petitioner from Kerala, who wanted anti-Muslim rallies in Maharashtra to be stopped, why he was targeting one community instead of looking at his own state. Senior advocate Chander Uday Singh says whataboutery and government inaction defy the wishes of the highest court in the land.