A group of sugar mills in Uttarakhand has filed a petition in the Nainital High Court challenging the state advised price (SAP) for sugarcane which has been fixed at Rs 250-255 a quintal by the state government.

Uttarakhand sugar mills oppose SAP

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To develop two logistics hubs in Pantnagar and Haridwar with an investment of Rs 300 crore.

Sidcul to ink MoU with Concor

Ruling out any change of date for the January 30 Assembly elections in Uttarakhand, Chief Election Commissioner Y S Qureshi has said the election commission has prepared a contingency plan for the snow-bound areas of the hill state. &ldquo;The snow bound areas in Uttarakhand are less than five per cent of the total polling stations. Weather data of the hill state also show that snow and rain are usually heavier in the month of February than in the month of January,&rdquo; said Qureshi when asked to comment on the demand of change of date for elections in view of intense cold conditions in the hill state.

EC makes crisis plan for Uttarakhand

Khanduri is trying to cling on to power for some more days, says spokesperson.

Congress rejects demand for postponement of poll dates

Amid harsh winter, a star war of sorts is hotting up in election-bound Uttarakhand. For, both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress are roping in political bigwigs to boost their parties&rsquo; fortunes even as some Bollywood stars are likely to add glitz to an otherwise dull campaign in the hill state.

'Poll stars' in Uttarakhand

For Daya Shanker, the election campaign business of selling posters, banners, flags and badges, is no more a money-spinner, courtesy a series of strong measures taken by the election commission in poll-bound Uttarakhand.

EC's strong steps put spanner into poll biz

For Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, green is the buzzword for election-bound Uttarakhand, where he is campaigning for his Congress party. &ldquo;If we come to power, we will make all-out efforts for the preservation of the forests, mountains and rivers of this state,&rdquo; he said on Friday, setting the tone for a green agenda ahead of the January 30 assembly polls in the hill state.

PM promises to go green

Geo-technical surveys for Rishikesh-Karanprayag rail project to begin after polls, says top railway official.

Polls delay rail project surveys

Under attack from the Opposition for issues including &ldquo;fleeing&rdquo; from passing the Lokpal bill in Parliament last month, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sought to puncture the BJP&rsquo;s campaign against corruption, by claiming that the party ruling Uttarakhand was earing a &ldquo;mask of fraud and deceit&rdquo;. She asked the people of the hill-state to vote for change of government.

'Change of CM can't stem corruption'

The BJP in Uttarakhand promised on Monday to create 10 lakh jobs in the state&rsquo;s next five years, besides bringing a whistle-blower law, providing agriculture loans at 2 per cent interest rate and attracting Rs 50,000-crore investments.

Uttarakhand BJP promises 10,00,000 jobs by 2017

Heavy snowfall and bone-chilling cold conditions have virtually spread a coat of inertia over electioneering for the past one week in Uttarakhand, even as the hill state has hardly a fortnight to go for Assembly polls.

Snowfall, rains worsen electioneering in Uttarakhand

Ahead of the January 30 assembly polls in Uttarakhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday unleashed a media campaign projecting B C Khanduri as the hill state&rsquo;s next chief minister &mdash; in its bid to take an edge on a &ldquo;leaderless&rdquo; Congress.

BJP projects Khanduri as next Uttarakhand CM, Cong mum

In the run-up to the January 30 Assembly polls in Uttarakhand, the election scenario has taken a new turn with the re-entry of former chief minister N D Tiwari and the indisposition of chief minister B C Khanduri.

N D Tiwari to boost Congress campaign, Khanduri indisposed

Here is good news for denizens of New Delhi. After more than five years of experiments and research, a European Union river bank filtration (RBF) project has ignited new hopes of clean drinking water from the much-polluted Yamuna.

Delhi may get clean drinking water from Yamuna

Thanks to a three-year project by the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development, in association with the Small Industries Development Bank of India (Sidbi), Uttarakhand&rsquo;s 200-odd pharmaceutical companies, mostly small and medium enterprises (SMEs), are set to realise their export potential.

Encouraging project at Uttarakhand pharma cluster

The sugarcane department&rsquo;s bid to revive its co-generation project for its Kitcha and Baajpur sugar mills in Uttarakhand on PPP mode has failed to take off due to indifferent attitude of the government.

Co-generation project fails to take off

Prime Minister&rsquo;s Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan on Tuesday called RBI&rsquo;s policy action a &ldquo;wise decision&rdquo;. The liquidity easing measures will have an impact on interest rates, he said. &ldquo;The improvement in liquidity conditions will automatically have an effect on interest rates. Improvement in liquidity conditions will lead to softening of interest rates.

Shishir Prashant