Consumer Forum picks up pace
Dehradun, December 19
After a slow start, the District Consumer Forum has gathered steam and cleared the backlog of cases, reducing the number from 700 in 2007 (July) to 308 in 2008 (November).

Plum thoughts
With Xmas round the corner, city bakeries are all set to entice customers with special plum cakes 
Dehradun, December 19
The festival of the Santa Claus, joy and togetherness is round the corner and famous bakery and confectionary outlets in the city are all set to enticing customers with cakes and other bakery products. "Special plum cakes with dry fruit are a Christmas specialty. Unlike ordinary plum cakes, the dry fruit used is soaked in rum for a month,” says Sushil Uniyal, manager of Melting Moments.
Cakes being decorated ahead of the festival season in Dehradun on Friday. Tribune photo: Vinod Pundir

Major Bisht does Almora proud
Dehradun, December 19
With another soldier from Uttarakhand proving his mettle, the state will get its 99th Shaurya Chakra in April 2009. Major Sunder Bisht, an officer of the Intelligence Corps in the Indian Army, will be awarded the gallantry award for gunning down three ULFA militants in Assam.


Major Sunder Bisht with his wife and children. A Tribune photograph

‘1956 Doon was quaint, modern, exotic’
Dehradun in 1956 was a small, sleepy town; it was renowned for its green hedges and grey heads. Hedges dotted its landscape and made the valley one of the greenest in the country.