Shimla: Today, Forest Minister J.P. Nadda said while addressing an official meeting with senior officers of the department that the policy of exporting Khair wood will be reviewed for the benefit of local farmers and the State. He also talked about the issue regarding the rights of ownership on the trees grown on uncultured land [...]

KUMARHATTI: A youth was crushed to death by an unidentified vehicle on Haripur road near Baddi last night. The deceased has been identified as Man Mohan. He hailed from Arki. As per information available the incident appeared to be happened in late in night when the vehicle’s driver could not notice the deceased walking alongside [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh government has decided to set up Primate Protection Parks and Sterilization Centres in the State to tackle the problem of monkey menace said Forest Minister J.P. Nadda. He said that one Sterilization Centre was operational at Tutukandi in Shimla and other would be set up at Gopalpur in district Kangra and Tal [...]

Dr. R.S. Yadav, the Head of Biochemistry Department at Rajindera Prasad Medical College, Tanda, was suspended. On January 19th he was booked under Section-354 of the IPC, when a student, resident of Bilaspur district in Himachal Pradesh, of Ist year complained molestation by him. This was not the first such case against Dr. Yadav – [...]

Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal today said that the sanitation conditions of urban areas are more worrisome than that of rural area and over 260 crore people in the world are in the habit of open defecation whereas the figure of the country also stood at about 70 crore. Moreover, the unhygienic conditions resulting from [...]

KUMARHATTI: Making breakthrough in a murder case of tractor driver, Prem Lal the police today arrested three persons including a woman in and around Baddi. Mahaveer Singh, Om Prakash both from UP and Lakshmi who hailed from Bihar were arrested for allegedly murdering Prem Pal. Prem Pal’s blood stained dead body was found in a [...]

Shimla: Recently, a shameful and bizzarre incident happened in prestigious the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), where notorious rats ate some body parts of a dead body of Ramesh Kumar. It was reported that Ramesh had committed suicide and his dead body was kept for autopsy, where rats ate the right eye completely while the [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh is to achieve a good healthy crop during current rabi season as it will record 7 lakh MT foodgrains production and 9.15 lakh tonnes foodgrains, 5 lakh tonnes vegetables and 10,000 tonnes oilseed production target has been fixed for next kharif season, as told by J.C. Rana, Director, Agriculture, in the National [...]

Shimla: Himachal Government is to take measures to educate the mentally challenged children in the state and work for their betterment, said Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal in Dharamshala. He said that the state looks forward in extending all possible help to any non-government organization (NGO) shouldering the responsibility of education of the mentally challenged children. [...]

Dharamsala: Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, said that the state government would explore the possibilities of completing the ambitious Swami Vivekanand Medical Research Trust (VMRT), Palampur, in joint venture and make the same functional to deliver people specialized medical services and research facilities in different disciplines. He was addressing the State Level Meeting of the [...]

Shimla: With Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri rail line finding mention in the budget proposals of railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has welcomed its inclusion among the new lines proposed in the 2008-09 budget. Dhumal said that the state has already made a provision of Rs 37 crore in its 2008-09 annual plan as [...]

State Government would extend all possible help including financial assistance to the Tangyud Gompa Buddhist Society, Kaza of Lahaul and Spiti district for organizing Kalachakra scheduled to be held during month of June, 2008. The assurance was given by Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister to the delegation of the society headed by its Chairman [...]

HAMIRPUR: National Institute of technology, Hamirpur today signed an MOU with Sheffield Hallam University, England in field of education and its related fields. The MOU was signed between Prof. I.K.Bhat, the Director of the Hamirpur institute and Prof. Graham Button of the British University. Robert.G.Harris, one of the leading computer experts of Britain was also [...]

Shimla: With arrest of the state drug licensing authority on bribery charges while doing the rounds of pharmaceutical units in Baddi, last Friday, the government sensing a larger scam in the play has said that “manufacturing of sub-standard drugs would not be allowed.” Health Minister Dr Rajiv Bindal told My Himachal News that Sher Singh [...]

Shimla: Faced with a High Court diktat to bring about order to the haphazard construction activity around Kasauli, the high level government committee constituted for the purpose intends to seek more time from the courts in order to formulate a master plan for the area. Following court directions, the ‘Kasauli Bachao Andolan’ committee and the [...]