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THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS
50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS

No room for cultural affairs
Dehradun, January 21
The government has been unable to allocate space for a culture centre, demand for which has been raised from time to time by culture aficionados. The monopoly of the state culture department is complete. So much so that all activities are routed through it but so far it has failed to come up with a culture policy. “It has been eight years since the state was created but there has been no effort to draft a culture policy so far,” said RK Singh of REACH (Rural Entrepreneurship for Art and Cultural Heritage), the organisation that has been holding the cultural bonanza, Virasat, in Dehradun since 1995.

A 60-hour homage
Surmani Agni Verma prepares for sitar recital. Dehradun, January 21
A sitar teacher at Mussoorie International School, Surmani Agni Verma, will give a sitar recital 60 hours at a stretch at Surbhi Palace Hotel beginning tomorrow.

Surmani Agni Verma prepares for sitar recital. Tribune Photo: Vinod Pundir.



EARLIER EDITIONS

Carrying a chip in their ear lobes
Tourists enjoy an elephant ride. Dehradun, January 21
In order to check unlawful trade of captive elephants, microchips have been injected into the ear lobes of as as many as 16 in and around Corbett National Park. Seven of the park’s camp elephants are also with microchips. Tourist resorts around the Corbett National Park carry out elephant safaris in territorial forests areas encircling Corbett.

Tourists enjoy an elephant ride. Tribune file photo

Despite fraud, no e-stamps
Dehradun, January 21
The recovery of unaccounted non-judicial stamp papers worth lakhs in the raid conducted by a team of senior district administration officials here on Monday has brought into focus the urgent need to implement e-stamping in the state.

Ross Cottage and the Kennedy connection
 While JF Kennedy’s father Patrick Kennedy moved to America, the rest of the Kennedys moved from New Ross in the USA to Mussoorie.  The Kennedy family lived in Ross Cottage named after their village in Ireland.
On Tuesday, Barrack Hussain Obama was sworn in as the first black American President of the US. Obama was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and a white American mother and was raised in Indonesia. Having come from a different land and culture, today Obama is at the topmost position of a country that has always beckoned hopefuls and dreamers.


Preprations are on for the Republic Day parade in Dehradun
Preprations are on for the Republic Day parade in Dehradun. Tribune Photo: Anil P. Rawat

Scheme for girlchild launched
Dehradun, January 21
Uttarakhand Chief Minister BC Khanduri has reiterated his government’s commitment towards empowerment of women in the state. The Chief Minister was addressing a gathering at a training workshop organised by the Uttarakhand Women’s Empowerment and Child Development Department at Navodaya Vidhayala, Tapowan, here today.

Flowing revenue buoys up transport dept
Dehradun, January 21
The revenue collection of the state transport department has witnessed an increase of almost 10 per cent in the current fiscal year, till December 31, 2008, as compared to the corresponding period in 2007-08.

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