U'khand okays forest land transfer for 3 roads near China border

Amid the continuing tension with China along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, the Uttarakhand State Wildlife Advisory Board has approved proposals for transfer of 73.36 hectares of forest land......

Heavy rains lash U'khand; more incidents of landslides reported

Fresh incidents of landslides, cloudbursts and house collapses were triggered by moderate to heavy rains in most places in Uttarakhand on Tuesday. A road that led to a school building was......

Of tourists, mules and melting glaciers

With alarm bells ringing over the rapid melting of glaciers in the Himalayas, the Uttarakhand government has now decided to regulate tourist flow to protected areas of Gangotri National Park,......

'It is important to go back to India'

Stephen Alter's compelling work Elephas Maximus, A Portrait of the Indian Elephant, beguiles readers at many levels. It is partly a travelogue that takes us to wildlife preserves, to an elephant......