1. BAPS Care InternationalContact: Shailendra Adroja; 1-732-744-1744
Checks payable to: BAPS Care International
Address: 195, Main Street, Suite # 304MetuchenNew Jersey-08840
Payments can also be made online (beginning later this afternoon, EST) at
2. Association for India’s Development:Contact: Aniruddha Vaidya, 1-650-996-8249, 1-888-TALK-2-AID or (301) 422-4441email: info@aidindia.org
Contributions to AID can be made through secure on-line credit-card deductions from AID’s website [...]

Major Somnath Sharma, the very first recipient of Param Vir Chakra!
Major Som Nath Sharma was born on 31 January 1923 in Dadh, Kangara District in Himachal Pradesh. His father, Major-General Amar Nath Sharma, was also a military officer and his brother General V. N. Sharma was the Chief of Army Staff from 1988 to 1990. [...]

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Indian Army
A touching story about Vikram about his days in NDA
on WIKI
Gave his life for our future on July 7, 1999
© G.L. Batra, father of Shaheed Captain Vikram Batra, PVC (13 JAK Rifles)Images
© A Ridge Too Far: His Highness The Maharajah of Patiala
Twin sons were born to the family of [...]

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041222/edit.htm#3
Sale of girls
The bitter truth about Himachal Pradesh
THE issue of the reported sale of girls in the Transgiri area of Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh figured in the Assembly on Monday. The normal reaction of any responsible government to such reports will be to order an investigation and take appropriate action to check human trafficking, [...]

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www.paraglidingindia.net
For those who don’t know Billing India yet, it is considered by lot of pilots as being one of the best and safest flying sites in the world. Billing take-off is at an altitude of 2420 m ASL,1 000m AGL, making it a very easy-to-fly site.In Indian Himalayas conditions are superb for XC. Cloud bases [...]

http://www.himachal.com/

Tribune News Service
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041213/himachal.htm#3

Shimla, December 12
The state government and the Himalayan Ski Village, owned by the Ford Motor Company, will be signing an MOU for the setting up of a Rs 2,000 crore integrated winter sport hill resort in Himachal.
“We are working out the modalities and a meeting will be held with the Union Tourism ministry [...]

http://www.k2crafts.com/
K2Crafts is part of an exemplary project empowering women through social and economic capacity building.

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Complete speech is on President’s website
Hill Agriculture for Prosperous Himachal Pradesh
I am delighted to be here and interact with the students and faculty of Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Palampur. I take this opportunity to congratulate the University students for their academic performance. I greet the Vice Chancellor, Professors, teachers and staff [...]

Those who eat together, stay together. Himachalis eating a community meal at a wedding. — Photo by Rajiv Sharma.

It’s a rendezvous with riches for these enterprising people
Varinder Walia
Tribune News Service
Tribune Article.

From the snow-smooched mountains of Himachal to the sun-kissed plains of Amritsar, it has been a long journey for Himachalis here. It was the search [...]

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041209/aplus.htm#13The Himachalis have brought to the city a unique tradition of settling family disputes. They have settled many disputes through their age-old panchayati system. Even elected sarpanches from Himachal are invited to help in resolving the cases. This tradition has already saved many families from being broken. The tradition has also saved huge money of [...]

Amritsar’s Himachali World Cup hero

Tribune article!

Madhi Bhaa, as Madan Lal is fondly called, scored 10,204 runs with 22 hundreds, 50 half-centuries and a top score of 223. He is a proud Himachali, who was born in Amritsar. Madan Lal was a member of the famous World Cup winning team of 1983. He was also awarded [...]

http://www.nishtha-hp.org/english/index.htm

Nishtha is a charitable trust situated in Sidhbari, a small village in the Himalayan foothills of the North Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The main objective for which the Trust has been established is to work for the benefit and development of society as a whole by improving the welfare of families with particular focus [...]