Uttarakhand Minister Harak Singh Rawat walks out of Cabinet meeting
The Hindu
He is likely to join Congress.
Uttarakhand Forest Minister Harak Singh Rawat announced his resignation from the State’s Council of Ministers in a dramatic fashion by walking out of a Cabinet meeting at the Secretariat.
At the time of publishing this story, Mr. Harak Singh Rawat had not tendered his resignation in writing. However, he told reporters that he was upset that despite his lobbying for years, the State Government had dragged its feet on setting up a medical college in Kotdwar. He said he had been undermined and treated badly in the BJP.
Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).