Shimla: For substandard work carried out on a new Shimla water supply scheme the Himachal government has penalised two contractors even as one executive engineer and two junior engineers face prosecution over anomalies allegedly committed in execution of the Drabala road project, Ravinder Ravi, minister for irrigation and public health (IPH) stated today. Speaking at [...]

Shimla: Given the low consumption of steel in Himachal Pradesh, the steel ministry in collaboration with Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) plans to involve small entrepreneurs in increasing steel consumption in the hill state. Union steel secretary Atul Chaturvedi at a media conference said that compared to a national per capita average consumption of [...]

Tourism is a manpower based thrust industry in Himachal given the state’s amazing natural and cultural products. To just have an idea of the potential of this industry one can glimpse into the amazing statistics of the tourism department. Over 80 lakhs tourist coming to the state with about 20% growth every year (source http://scstsenvis.nic.in/tourinflow.html [...]

George Cross Medal Auction Dix Noonan Webb Auction house to investigate rightful ownership before sale Shimla: With Himachal police having detained Kirpal Singh from Moga in Punjab to investigate his claim that Brahmi Devi, widow of Naik Kirpal Ram, had gifted him a George Cross medal for services rendered as mentioned in an affidavit produced [...]

Shimla: With the central government having filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court about not considering Himachal Pradesh claim towards 12 percent free power as royalty from hydropower projects managed by Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), state CPI(M) has hit out saying that interest of the state have been ignored. Member state secretariat CPI(M) Tikender [...]

Shimla: A high level team from the steel ministry headed by steel secretary Atul Chaturvedi, is scheduled to meet state government officials for expediting the setting up of two steel processing plants and mining unit for extracting steel grade limestone. The high powered delegation from steel ministry on Monday is schedule to meet chief secretary [...]

हिमाचल प्रदेश से चोरी हुए अति महतवपूर्ण एवं दुर्लभ जार्ज क्रॉस के लन्दन में होने और उसकी दो दिसम्बर को होने वाली कथित नीलामी की खबर से प्रशासन में हडकंप मच गया है. यह विशेष मेडल बिलासपुर जिला के किरपा राम को 1947 में मरणोपरांत मिला था जो करीब सात साल पहले चोरी हो गया [...]

Shimla: Not bothered about what material value London based auction house Dix Noonan Webb puts out for the rare George Cross medal which Brahmi Devi, octogenarian widow of Naik Kirpa Ram received on behalf of her dead husband on January 1, 1946, says, ‘the medal was stolen and not gifted as claimed by the auction [...]

Chamba: Youth Hostel Dalhousie had organized a three day trekking camp for the students of Sri Vidhya Academy International Residential School from Chennai. The students trekked through the virgin forests around Dalhousie. G.S.Dhillon Chairman cum Principal of Dalhousie Public School was the chief guest at the valedictory function of this trekking camp. After distributing certificates [...]

Chamba: Three persons died and one was reported missing when a pick-up vehicle carrying poultry from Nurpur in Kangra district to Bharmaur rolled off the road and fell into Ravi River, early today morning at Kharamukh, 48 Km from Chamba, Kishan Chand Bhatia, SHO of Bharmaur police station said that information of the accident reached [...]

Shimla: Intense industrialization in the Baddi, Barotiwala and Nalagarh (BBN) has stressed the water resources in region for the recently released state environment report has held that water quality in river Sirsa, Markanda and Sukhna Nallah was a lowly D grade because of low levels of oxygen due to organic pollution. Speaking about the BBN [...]

Shimla:The farm debt waver scheme may have translated into votes, returning the UPA government to power for another term, but it has seriously dented bankers, mainly cooperative banks here, whose recoveries have sharply fallen and the whole approach to farm credit stands affected. At the state level bankers meet today that was presided over by [...]

Shimla: Opposing the development of hydropower in Satluj River basin, hundreds of people in the tribal district of Kinnaur held a protest in Rekong Peo, the district headquarter, over the political leadership was turning a blind eye towards their concerns about irreversible environmental damage and violations of tribal lands being committed by multitude hydropower projects. [...]

भाई कितने किस्म के होते है.?..सगे भाई, चचेरे भाई, कंगन भाई,पेटी भाई ,मुहँ बोले भाई,फौजी भाई, मुम्बईया भाई और चोर-चोर मौसेरे भाई, शायद इतने ही किस्म के लेकिन हाल ही में हिमाचल मैं संम्पन हुए उप-चुनाव में भाइयों की एक नई किस्म का पता चला है.यह किस्म है ढैया भाईओं की . हालाँकि सीधे तौर [...]

जी हाँ रोहडू और ज्वाली का उप चुनाव यही सब था..विशुद रूप से खुन्नसों का चुनाव और शुरू से लेकर अंत तक इसमें खुन्नसें निकली जाती रहीं और अभी भी निकली जा रही हैं. इसमें कोई दो राय नहीं की इस उप चुनाव के नतीजे सत्ता पक्ष और विपक्ष की सेहत पर कोई ज्यादा असर [...]

Shimla: Hoping to get a better accreditation than the B++ which Himachal Pradesh University presently holds, a team from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) team arrived today on a three day visit to assess research capabilities, academic quality, achievements, extension, facilities and other related activities of the various faculties on the campus. Led by [...]

Shimla: To improve e-governance and create a resource data centre, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal laid the foundation stone for a Rs 6.47 State Data Centre (SDC) at Mehli, a Shimla suburb on Tuesday. Speaking at a function of throwing open an SMS gateway for providing public services such as copying agency, electoral rolls and [...]

Shimla: To restore depleting grasslands and meadows, the forest department has chalked out programs for augmenting the productivity of grazing lands including alpine pastures through introduction of better quality nutritious grasses and legumes and eradication of obnoxious weeds and shrubs. Presiding over a state level Grazing Advisory Committee, JP Nadda forest minister said that invasion [...]