Garhwal Post
Ensuring Safety
Not a day passes without reports emerging from Uttarakhand of preventable fatal accidents involving tourists, in particular. Be it unskilled drivers from the plains...
More politicking
The state government is all set to trashcan the ‘Transfer Act’ passed during the brief Khanduri regime just before the recent assembly elections. This...
Red Lines
Recently, an elderly person complained to the police control room in Doon about noisy and drunken celebrations near his home late in the night....
Worth it
The Aam Aadmi Party has finally agreed to take on what is basically a suicide mission – forming the government in Delhi with MLAs...
Systemic stress
Even as the Union Government is in free-fall, Parliament, too, is in a state of near paralysis. With contentious issues allowed to fester without...
Kejriwal effect
The BJP’s BC Khanduri almost pulled off a victory by introducing last minute ‘pro-people’ legislation during the assembly elections. This included a Kejriwal inspired...
Greater transparency
If the people are not convinced, what better way than to dump large amounts of information on them that they find hard to process?...
PR disaster
From the public relations point of view, Chief Minister Harish Rawat’s ‘press conference’ in Doon on Sunday was little short of a disaster. Having...
Feeble tokenism
Nothing can be more hypocritical than the Samajwadi Party demanding passage of the Prevention of Communal & Targeted Violence Bill in Parliament. Pilloried by...
Taking it personally
We are taught mathematics and physics of quite an advanced level in schools. It is often questioned how this would prove to be useful...
