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Express News Service DEHRADUN: The latest voter list of Uttarakhand has revealed decline in voters of hilly areas of the state assembly constituencies while in plain areas voters continue to increase in numbers.  So much so that now 12 hill side constituencies have less than 90,000 voters. The state has total 70 assembly constituencies.  Analysts say if the trend continues, political importance of the hill areas will weaken which may prompt further negligence of the remote hills of Uttarakhand inducing more migration than ever. Shekhar Pathak, Padam Shri awardee activist, author from Utta...

Punjab issues advisory for surveillance of poultry farms, wetlands amid bird flu scare Updated: Updated: They said no case of bird flu has been reported so far in Punjab. Share Article AAA Experts collect samples for the detection of bird-flu, at Gharana wetland on the outskirts of Jammu, on Tuesday.   | Photo Credit: PTI They said no case of bird flu has been reported so far in Punjab. Amid a bird flu scare, authorities in Punjab have alerted officials to keep tabs on any unusual deaths of migratory and poultry birds in the State, officials said on Wednesday. They said no case of bird flu...

‘The real Chipko’: How Shekhar Pathak wrote the first exhaustive, people’s history of the movement Pathak’s new book focuses on the ordinary, often unlettered, men, women and children who shaped the forest rights struggle. Dec 27, 2020 · 06:30 am I first came across Shekhar Pathak’s name in the files of the Uttar Pradesh State Archives in Lucknow. The year was 1983, and I was working on a dissertation on the social history of forests in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. In those days the UP State Archives were well run; the files one ordered came to one’s desk fairly quickly, and w...

Shooting stars: As the Hubble Telescope turns 30, heavenly pursuits have grown from a niche Astrophotographers attempt to record and understand the Universe as technology expands the world and data brings it closer.  Share Via Email   |  A+A A- To celebrate the space telescope’s 30th, NASA has issued a selection of photographs labelled “30 celestial gems”. (Photo | Neeraj Ladia ) The Hubble Telescope, mankind’s primary star catcher launched into the Earth’s orbit in 1990, turns 30. For decades it has been recording the births and deaths of stars, collisions and idiosyncrasie...