There is a shortage of 1,500 doctors in various hospitals, CHCs and PHCs in the state, state Health Minister Surendra Singh Negi said

The State Assembly passed the Uttarakhand Green Energy Cess and Uttarakhand ropeways Bill by voice vote on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh has refused to give no objection certificate to some irrigation projects in Uttarakhand

The Supreme Court today granted four more weeks to the Centre for filing "comprehensive" environment and ecological impact report of 24 hydroelectric power projects to be established on Alaknanda a

In view of increasing instances of natural disasters, there is a need for a new strategy for environment and ecological conservation for development in the Himalayan region.

Residents of eight villages near Almora town are protesting against the dumping of garbage by the Almora Nagar Palika Parishad near their homes and cattle grazing grounds.

Thirty-one government schools in Bageshwar district have failed to construct toilets for their students despite a 2012 Supreme Court order instructing all state-run schools to build toilets within

At least seven permissions for sand mining, many of them given last year, were found to be in violation of norms laid down by the Union ministry of environment and forests.

Bageshwar town, the headquarters of Bageshwar district, has no sewers.

Canal blocking an exercise in futility; no repairs, no cleaning