Shimla: Rating the two year performance of the BJP government as a failure on all fronts, congress state president Kaul Singh Thakur said that enough was enough and the opposition was would launch a movement to dispel the propaganda unleashed. Talking to the media here today, he said that the state government was on crutches [...]

Shimla:The bar and the bench are at loggerheads over extending of working days at the Himachal High Court with the bench having reduced a six week winter vacation by one week for clearing backlog of pendency cases. Bar president Ashok Sharma let My Himachal News know that lawyers were not opposing extending of the working [...]

Shimla: Even as many PSU’s are struggling to keep afloat and find means to meet salary bills, the government today announced a New Year’s gift for HP State Electronic Development Corporation by releasing revised pay scale as the corporation has turned tables by wiping out accumulated losses and turning in a profit. Presiding over the [...]

Young girls welcoming the New Year 2010 in Shimla on Thursday.

Shimla: Ruling party BJP today expressed satisfaction with two years functioning of the Prem Kumar Dhumal government here and held inherent weakness within the party responsible for losing the Jwali by-election to the opposition recently but maintained that congress was losing ground. Speaking to the media BJP spokesman Ashok Kapahtia said opposition congress for the [...]

Shimla: Managing uncontrolled crowds on New Year’s Eve has led the security officials to do away with organized programs for the upcoming bash in the heart of the city on The Ridge, even as hotels report a full house and have arranged an array of programs to usher in the New Year for their guests. [...]

Shimla: All India Art Exhibition 2009 was inaugurated by Himachal Pradesh Principal Secretary of Tourism Language & Culture, Manisha Nanda. Amit Kanwar was among the fifteen artists from all over India to be awarded for their excellent workmanship (in pictures).

Shimla: Another life loss has been reported due to Swine Flu in Shimla at Indira Gandhi Medical College. Nodal Officer Vinod Mehta revealed, the death toll rises to 15 with 103 samples 41 patients have tested H1N1 virus positive in state. On Monday, a 31-year-old man swine flu patient from Jubbal-Kotkhai area lost his life [...]

Shimla: Sant Nirankari Mission, the largest volunteer blood donation organization as mentioned by Mission’s Zonal Head, Rajwant Kaur, organized its 23rd Blood donation Camp at the Ridge, Shimla, inaugurated by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minsiter, Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal. Following the objectives of Nirankari Baba Hardev Singh Ji Maharaj that “the blood should flow in the [...]

Shimla: Should the central industrial package not be extended; Himachal would continue to provide incentives for setting up fruit processing units in rural area, even as it would review viability of public sector units that are unable to survive competition and the new private universities being set up would be regulated by the education department, [...]

Shimla: With opposition congress in a disarray, the Prem Kumar Dhumal led BJP government pursuing a green agenda has had a smooth run through the second year of its term unlike much of north India where the party suffered serious reverses. Midway in the year the state leadership faced its biggest challenge as it went [...]

Shimla: To clear up pendency, a mega Lok Adalat organised here today settled 1500 cases of different sections and provided relief to many litigants. In all 193 cases under Negotiable Instrument Act (NIA) and 1288 cases under Motor Vehicle Act (MVA) were settled in the special Lok Adalat, said Yashwant Singh Chogal chief judicial magistrate [...]

Shimla: With two large new cement plants ready for starting operations by March, heavy traffic on the crowded Manali highway is expected to double that has much of the tourism operators worried about the future of tourism in Kullu-Manali valley. Officials of industry department disclosed that two new cement plants would increase the annual cement [...]

लगता है वर्दी बदलने का नुस्खा हिमाचल पुलिस के काम नहीं आया है क्योंकि यहाँ वर्दी पर दाग लगने का सिलसिला बदस्तूर जरी है. हालाँकि हिमाचल की हालत उत्तर प्रदेश महाराष्ट्र जैसे दुसरे राज्यों जैसी कतई नहीं है तथापि बीते एक दशक में जिस तरह यहाँ पुलिस बदनाम हुयी है वोह चिंता जनक है. इसे संयोग तो नहीं कहा जा [...]

Shimla: Passengers of an early morning coach had a miraculous escape after the vehicle developed a mechanical breakdown, forcing an alert driver to bang the high speed downhill moving bus into the hill side, causing it to overturn onto the road close to the police headquarters. There were about 40 passengers in the bus when [...]

Shimla: An ambitious Rs 3900 crore urban renewal plan to spruce up JNNURM mission city Shimla that largely still depends upon infrastructure created during colonial times, has proved a damp squib as no major project to improve roads, transportation or waste treatment has been implemented. “Land remains a major constraint here,” says Rajneesh Kumar, director [...]

Shimla: Keeping pace with demanding times, it has been a bag of mixed achievements for Himachal Pradesh University that not only handed out 415 degrees and gold medals at its annual convocation, but other than qualifying for enhanced grants from University Grants Commission aspires for a better NAAC accreditation and in the sports arena, Jagdish [...]

Shimla: On the eve of Christmas, Doordarshan Kendra Shimla is to hold a special telecast of a 30 minutes film ‘For Whom The Jingle Bells Toll?’ an environment film shot in Shimla. Directed by National Award winning filmmaker Vivek Mohan, the films theme revolves around a simple question with larger connotations that any winter resident [...]