[lang_en]Shimla: In defiance of both the Tibetan conservative way of life and the Chinese occupation of the high land plateau country, the Miss Tibet contest is back again this year and is scheduled to be held in the second week of October. The Miss Tibet Pageant, with the punch line – women with wisdom from [...]

[lang_en]Shimla: The Himachal Kisan Sabha has decided to protest on Monday for restoration of forest timber distribution (TD) rights to the local communities that have been stalled by a High Court order. The demonstrations would be held at block levels, says Tikender Panwar member Himachal Kisan Sabha, and a memorandum addressed to the chief justice [...]

[lang_en]Shimla: Making a contribution towards what has been declared a national calamity, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today released Rs 2 crore for carrying out relief and rehabilitation of flood victims in Bihar. Expressing his condolences with those who had lost their near and dear ones, the chief minister said that in this hour of [...]

[lang_en]KUMARHATTI: The dust storm followed by showers has wrecked havoc on standing crop of maize of this area last evening. In some pockets, the damage was quite severe as the entire crop in fields has fallen flat. The tomato crop has also reportedly suffered adversely. The dust storm has not only caused damage to maize [...]

[lang_en]The Himachal Pradesh Government has entered into an agreement with M/S Zoom Developers Pvt. to establish 1296 Common Service Centres (CSC) in Kangra Division to cover Kangra, Una and Chamba districts. The centres would be set up in all the Panchayats of the Division within one year. These centres would offer a host of services [...]

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[lang_en]KUMARHATTI: Dheeraj Kumar (30) a resident of Dagshai, 4-km from here is battling for life after the doctors at PGI have asked to replace his kidney within two weeks time. Unable to arrange the cost of the operation which is 4 to 5 lakhs for kidney transplantation, Dheeraj and his family are now really expecting [...]

The 10th Raid De Himalaya Rally will be held from 2nd to 9th October, 2008. This year the event would cover a distance of 2050 kms through rugged terrains of Himalaya including Shimla, Sangla, Manali, Kaza, Keylong, Sarchu, Leh. The Raid would finish at Leh on October 9, 2008 followed by a prize distribution ceremony [...]

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[lang_en]Shimla: The Dalhousie Public School, located in the scenic Dalhousie hill station of Chamba district was awarded the national level computer literacy excellence award for 2007 on Thursday. Union communication minister A Raja, at an function in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi gave away an cash award of Rs 1.5 lakhs to GS Dhillion, the principal [...]

[lang_en] Unless India does not get a clean waiver with the Nuclear Supply Group, the government should not take forward the nuclear deal, said BJP president Rajnath Singh here. Speaking on a wide range of issues on his maiden interaction with the media after a BJP government returned to power in Himachal, about 8 months [...]

[lang_en]KUMARHATTI: Resentment prevails among the residents of Barog over non-functioning of the water tank which supplies drinking water supply to Barog area. The tank was constructed under Giri water scheme but till date has remained non-operational due to the delay in laying of the water pipes. The Giri scheme was supposed to end the water [...]

[lang_en]KUMARHATTI: The ASCOT Hotels and Resorts Limited has reportedly given its proposal to the state government to construct a high class luxury resort near Kasauli. The company was believed to put an invest Rs. 292 crore in project under which it would also connect Kasauli with a ropeway. The idea behind project was to tap [...]

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[lang_en]Shimla:Branching out into hydropower generation, Moser Baer, the computer technology company, today paid up Rs 43.92 crore as upfront money to the Himachal government for the 144 MW Gondhla project that it has won in a global bidding process. Awadh B Giri, chief executive officer of Moserbaer Projects Pvt Ltd, today paid up the 50 [...]

[lang_en]Shimla: The Himachal cabinet on Wednesday decided to reduce taxes on route permits for unemployed youth for generating employment avenues, carry out rain damage repairs to roads and water schemes on priority and approved changes to government school timings from 1 September. Presided over by chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, the cabinet gave its nod [...]

[lang_en]The Secretary of a villages’ Samiti under Nalagarh sub division has been booked under section 420 of IPC today by the local police for forging over the loans to the villagers. Shayam Lal, the Secretary of the Riya Krishi Sabha Samiti has allegedly misappropriated the records over disbursement and recovery of loans to various villagers [...]