Uttarakhand

India’s Char Dham Railway project is well underway in Uttarakhand. In brief The ambitious project is the Indian Railways’ proposed route to improve connectivity to the Char Dham shrines of Yamunotri, Gangotri, Badrinath and…

The Uttarakhand high court has put a stay on a 2006 order giving 30 per cent reservation for women having domicile of the state in state civil services examination. In brief A bench, headed by Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi, and…

It can be very tricky being a government official in India. You not only have to look out for the well-being of the country's people, you also have to make sure that the team of people you are heading is also conducting itself in high…

In a first, Flipkart, India’s largest ECommerce site, has taken state of Uttarakhand to Court for taxing customers when they make purchases online. In January of this year, Uttarakhand went anti-digital and announced that any ECommerce…

In 1696, King William III in England introduced a tax called as ‘Windows Tax’, which calculated tax for households based on the number of windows they had in their houses. Something similar has happened in Uttrakhand, where the state…