Uttarakhand high court on Wednesday scheduled June 3 as the next date for hearing a public interest litigation on illegal mining on the banks and outskirts if river Kosi.

The advocate general told the Uttarakhand high court on Wednesday that no illegal mining activity will be permitted in Ganga river at Haridwar.

Green min using 1916 pact to allay apprehensions over hydel projects on Ganga

A large number of villages in the Kumaon region are still without road connectivity as over 1,000 sanctioned roads in rural areas in Bageshwar and Almora districts have not been given forest cleara

Out of its six housing projects for rehabilitating the urban poor of the city under the Centre's JNNURM scheme, the Dehradun Municipal Corporation could start construction only in two, while three

After the formation of Uttarakhand, villagers are feeling alienated, bereft of natural resources which they claim is their right, and deprived of development.

In one of the first instances of action against a prominent commercial establishment for allegedly violating pollution norms as laid down by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Radisson Blu, a five-

In what could be a big boost to those fighting against rampant mining in Uttarakhand, the state government is contemplating making Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts as no-mining zones.

With illegal sand-mining continuing unabated in the Ganga in Haridwar district, Swami Shivanand of the Matri Sadan Ashram has resumed his fast.

The Uttarakhand Biodiversity Board has issued notices to 350 companies using bio-resources of Uttarakhand directing them to provide 0.5 per cent of their gross profit to the state biodiversity mana