While the level of mercury remaining high with hot days being experienced in different areas of the State especially in the plains, the problem of forest fires has not yet been fully resolved.

Dehradun: About a week after the forest fires in different parts of Uttarakhand were doused, largely due to rains, the blaze has returned, this time on Varunavat Parvat in Uttarkashi.

Earthquake in Uttarakhand: A 4.1 magnitude medium intensity quake on the Richter scale rocked this North Indian region late tonight that spanned Chamoli, Pauri, Uttarkashi, Dehradun and Bageshwar a

Dehradun: Learning no lessons from the past, wildlife officials in Uttarakhand continue to be on the defensive and in denial of an alarming spurt in incidents of poaching in the hill state.

As many as 76 villages in Uttarakhand have been living in the dark since 1947, the year in which India attained independence.

This document provides an insight on the incidences of past disasters, and administrative, demographic, socio-economic and infra-structure perspectives of the Uttarkashi district, in Uttarakhand, India for assessing the vulnerability and capacity of the district in disaster risk reduction.

Eminent environmentalist Suresh Bhai of the Himalayi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan based at Matali in Uttarkashi says both state and Union governments are playing politics and doing nothing to clean

The fragile eco-system around the Gangotri glacier cluster in Uttarkashi district is feeling the effects of global warming.

The exercise to prepare a zonal master plan in consultation with people following the announcement of an eco-sensitive zone from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi began at the administrative level in Uttarkash

A presentation of the draft of the zonal master plan for the Bhagirathi eco-sensitive zone was made in the secretariat here on Monday.

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