Three Years of Miyawaki Urban Forestry in Dehradun: Over 90% Survival Rate
Dehradun : Three years ago, on August 20, 2023, a pilot experiment in urban forestry based on the Japanese Miyawaki technique was initiated near Major Vivek Gupta Chowk on the Panditwari Main Road in Vasant Vihar, Dehradun. As part of the initiative, more than 300 saplings of local and regionally suitable species were planted. The […]
CONG RAISES CASTE ALARM ON CENSUS 2027
NEW DELHI: India is preparing to count caste as part of the decadal Census nationally after decades, but a battle has already begun with the Opposition asking if the process is foolproof. The Congress party has questioned the way castes will be recorded in Census 2027, particularly the decision to use an open-ended question rather […]
BJP’S MANPREET MANOEUVRE FOR PUNJAB POLLS
NEW DELHI: On January 5, 2022, then Congress leader Manpreet Singh Badal was on the Bathinda airport tarmac to receive Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, isolating himself after two of his staff tested positive for Covid, had sent Manpreet, the finance minister, in his place. The state chief secretary and […]
FOR PUNJAB POLLS, BJP MAY TRY HARYANA BLUEPRINT, TEAMS FROM RAJASTHAN
NEW DELHI: The BJP’s Satish Poonia from Rajasthan, appointed the party’s Punjab in-charge, has started prepping the strategy for Punjab Assembly elections due next year – which by most accounts, could follow the pattern used in Haryana to great success. The plan focuses on separate teams for every assembly seat, small groups for different areas, […]
ENCROACHMENT OUTSIDE PAK HIGH COMMISSION REMOVED IN A TIT-FOR-TAT MOVE
NEW DELHI: A section of structures outside the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi was demolished with bulldozers after authorities found them to be beyond the mission’s approved boundary, officials said on Thursday. The action was carried out by the agencies concerned using a JCB machine, which removed the structures and barricades erected along the […]
TARUN TEJPAL MOVES SC AGAINST GOA RAPE CONVICTION
NEW DELHI: Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal on Thursday approached the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court’s verdict by the Goa bench convicting him in the 2013 rape case involving a junior colleague, days after the High Court sentenced him to 10 years in prison. On August 6, the High Court overturned Tejpal’s acquittal […]
Rajiv Gandhi: The Prime Minister Who Imagined a Modern India
A birth anniversary tribute to the youngest leader to occupy India’s highest office On August 20, India remembers Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary. Born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1944, Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister on October 31, 1984, following the assassination of his mother, Indira Gandhi. He served in office until December 2, […]
