SPECIAL COVERAGE
CHANDIGARH

LUDHIANA
DELHI
JALANDHAR


THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS
50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS

Of exodus to cities & shattered dreams
 According to the 2001 Census, there are more than 4.5 lakh unemployed youth in Uttarakhand. The number of registered unemployed youth stands at 31.97 per cent
When Bhagwan Singh Negi, hailing from a tiny village of Koti in Tehri, left for Delhi in search of a job in 2005, he had dreams to fulfill. He had heard that the metropolitan city offered jobs to anyone who cared. Job in hand, he dreamt of buying more pungra (fields), replacing the temporary roof of his house with a cement sheet and buying a buffalo for his mother.

Another family waits for its missing son
Dehradun, November 18
The release of hijacked merchant ship MT Stolt has kindled hope in the heart of Raj Tyagi, still waiting for the return of her 29-year-old son Pankaj Tyagi, on board MV Rezzak, missing for the past nine months. 		Raj Tyagi, mother of Pankaj Tyagi, in Dehradun.
Raj Tyagi, mother of Pankaj Tyagi, in Dehradun.



EARLIER EDITIONS

Flashback
Happy birthday, Indiraji
The writer and his sister Neelkamal with Indira Gandhi in 1959 in Dehradun.Dehradun: I must have been 25 when I first met Indira Gandhi. I was then a stringer for The Tribune and two other English dailies published from New Delhi. Two years before, I had also launched Vanguard, an English weekly in partnership with a classmate, Jitender Nath.However, it was not as a journalist that I first met Indira Gandhi. She often accompanied Nehru whenever he visited Dehradun. I would meet Nehru more as a young admirer than a newsman.

The writer and his sister Neelkamal with Indira Gandhi in 1959 in Dehradun.

Forest institute gets tourist-friendly
Forest Research Institute’s main building in Dehradun. Dehradun, November 18
With as many as 40,000 tourists thronging the Forest Research Institute (FRI) every year, this premier institute seems to be in tourism mode. The institute is in the process of deploying guides in all six of its museums, apart from introducing the much-needed intra-campus connectivity.



Forest Research Institute’s main building in Dehradun. Tribune photo: Vinod Pundir

Mahesh Bhatt ‘s aim, edutainment
Dehradun, November 18
He wants to spread awareness on issues pertaining to child education, women empowerment and environment. We are talking about Mahesh Bhatt, a young filmmaker from Garhwal, who has achieved great success in making the masses aware of important social and environment issues with his short entertainment films.

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