Shimla: With the monsoon have hit most valley’s across the hill state, farmers including orchard owners, municipal authorities and irrigation networks are a relieved lot as water stress levels recede and hopes of cash crops maturing out well revive. “South west monsoon, late by a week, has reached entire Himachal,” said Manmohan Singh, director meteorological [...]

Shimla: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed for hydrological data sharing between Himachal government and various projects on different river basins in the state, here today. The MoU was signed between Narinder Chauhan, principal secretary, irrigation and public health, and the representatives from Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVNL), Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board, (HPSEB), [...]

Shimla: The police have arrested 34 year old Ram Singh of Mallah Deora, Poanta Sahib on charges of having raped a minor on Sunday evening. “The minor girl in only four and a half years old,” said Mathura Dass, of Boileuganj police station. Mother of the girl, who lives in a village close to Tara [...]

Shimla: Placing village level basic statistic, market prices of essential commodities and other statistical data in the public domain on the internet, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Monday launched a website dedicated for purpose to mark the 3rd Statistics Day. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister said that weekly market rate of essential commodities [...]

Shimla: Encouraged by the success rate of the Rs 4 crore conservation breeding program of Western Tragopan at the Sarahan pheasantry, forest minister JP Nadda out on a field visit said that seven more enclosures were being constructed with and outlay of Rs 1.2 crore. Commending the wild life experts Nadda said that Himachal had [...]

Shimla: A World Bank team out negotiating the second tranche of a Rs 850 Crore development planning loan for Himachal was satisfied with the pace of reforms being carried out. A two member World Bank team visited Himachal for the ongoing discussions about trance II of the development planning loan. The team has expressed satisfaction [...]

Shimla: As chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal draws up plans to expand his cabinet, BJP has chosen to remain silent over likely appointments of parliamentary secretaries and central parliamentary secretaries, something it had gone to court against as an opposition party in 2006 and forced the then congress government drop the appointments made. Speaking to [...]

Shimla organised its first Bar Camp on Sunday that saw active participation from budding entrepreneurs, government officials, media professionals, IT professionals and adventure sport organisers. Providing a platform where seeding of ideas could turn into potential start up enterprises, the informal style of the Barcamp was like a breath of fresh air from the formal [...]

Shimla: The intense dry spell was broken by a light evening drizzle that provided some relief to tourists and residents but as the rain was not widespread, the farming community’s hopes of saving their crops wrest on further advance of the monsoon. Partly overcast conditions with a day high temperature at 29.6 degree Celsius raised [...]

Shimla: While other states resorting to power outages as the overcharged summer hammers down day in and day out and consumption outstrips demand, Himachal is a comfortable situation as hydropower generation picks up. Suneel Grower, a senior engineer at HPSEB who monitoring the state power situation said, “against a overall demand of 190 million units [...]

Shimla: Having failed to nail the issues that surfaced after an old audio tape allegedly containing the voice of union steel minister Virbhadra Singh, his wife Pratibha Singh and deceased bureaucrat Mohinder Lal were made public by Vijay Singh Mankotia just before a crucial bye-election in 2007, the former minister under an RTI plea has [...]

Shimla: High level single window clearance authority on Saturday approved 6 new industrial projects and permitted expansion plans of 7 existing units. The project cleared by the authority entail fresh investment worth Rs 342.31 crore and are expected to generate 1900 new jobs, a government spokesman said. The six new units entail investment proposals of [...]

Shimla: Seeking to revive the fallen Nahan Foundry, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has sought union steel minister Virbhadra Singh’s intervention to revive the sick and defunct unit. In a letter written to the union steel minister, Dhumal said that the state government with its limited resources was not in a position to maintain and [...]

Shimla: Deliberations over opportunities and risks of climate change on habitation and highland farming was launched the Second Sangla Valley Household Tourism festival in Sangla valley today. With many foreign tourists from France and Israel present on the occasion the festival is gaining in popularity. Vidya Karan Negi chairman, Sangla Valley Sustainable Society (SVSDS) who [...]

The Himachal cabinet on Saturday cleared 256 small hydro projects, approved the market intervention procurement rates for quality mango fruits, approved giving Himachali domicile certification for a 15 year permanent resident, gave its nod for constitution of a water management board and approved the Kasauli development plan. Presided over by chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal [...]

फिर से फूटी फूट हिमाचल प्रदेश की दोनों प्रमुख सियासी पार्टियां एक बार फिर से गुटबाजी के दावानलैं में झुलसनी शुरू हो गयी हैं. लोकसभा चुनाव से पहले और चुनाव के दौरान हालाँकि दोनों पार्टियों ने गजब की एकजुटता दिखाने का प्रयास किया लेकिन चुनाव परिणाम आते ही फूट फिर से फूट पडी. और अबके [...]

To mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, an awareness rath was flagged off by the Health minister from Ichhi to sensitize the people in general and the youth in particular, to the menace of drugs. The awareness drive organized under the aegis of Himachal Pradesh State AIDS Control Society and Kangra [...]

Shimla: Having remained mute to Aman Kachroo’s murder by ragging incident, Himachal Pradesh University has sounded out a warning that anymore ragging incidents would lead to de-affiliation of the rogue institution. “The unfortunate incident that occurred in Tanda medical college is before the Supreme Court and the university will abide by the courts directives,” said [...]