Girls smear with colors as they celebrate Holi, the Indian festival of colors, in the northern hill town of Shimla on Sunday. The tradition of Holi heralds the beginning of spring and will be celebrated all over India on March 1st.

ITBP Jawan died in bomb blast at Kabul, Afghanistan cremated at his home village Daintha Sihunta at Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh.

Shimla: A love tale gone horribly wrong ended in gory murder for the bright and budding IIT textile engineer girl student while her lover was tracked down in a train faces murder charges. Superintendent police RM Sharma, giving details about the murder said, “Garuv Verma, a 22 year old 3rd year student at IIT Rorkee [...]

Shimla: Three people were killed and one seriously injured in a car accident in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh. The Maruti car in which they were travelling lost control and fell down about 50 meters into a ditch at Barog, 3 Km from Naina Devi – the pilgrimage centre. The four occupants in the car [...]

Shimla: With the filing of Draft Red Herring Prospectus with Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), SJVN – the Mini Ratna public sector generating company, has set the ball rolling for entering the equity markets by proposing to disinvest 10 percent of its holding through the Initial Public Offer (IPO). SJVN spokesman VK Verma disclosed [...]

Shimla: The Red-Ribbon Club of Dronacharya College of Education Rait (Kangra) organized a get-together meet with HIV Positive people. On the occasion, District AIDS Project Officer Dr. R.K. Sood stated that HIV can happen to any of us. So we should treat the HIV +ive people with the same respect and dignity as we would [...]

(Photos by Heinrich and Wolfgang Himmel)

Shimla: Like Kullu Dussehra and Mandi Shivratri even Holi of Sujanpur would be accorded international status. This was announced by Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal on inauguration of three day long State-level Holi Festival at Sujanpur, Hamirpur on Friday evening. He also said that in Chief Minister Sainik Welfare Fund a collection had gone upto Rs. [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Health Department and IPH Department did Water Surveillance and sent eight water samples of Shimla city to National Centre for Disease Control, New Delhi out of them seven were tested positive for Hepatitis-E, told an official spokesperson. In a meeting of senior Health Department, IPH Department and Municipal Corporation including Director Health [...]

Shimla: Addressing a huge gathering of farmers at the inaugural session of two day long Kisan Mela at the Regional Horticulture and Forestry Research Centre at Neri near Hamirpur, Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal asked the horticulture scientists to percolate the valuable research to the fields to benefit the farmers and orchardists by increasing productivity and [...]

Shimla: Terming Union Budget as anti-poor, anti common man and anti farmers, Himachal Chief Minister, Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, said here today that proposed hike in petrol and diesel will affect the common man at large as this would lead to more transportation cost thereby affecting every spheres of life and would increase prices of [...]

Shimla: In a Cabinet meeting presided by Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal it was decided to fill up 94 Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) posts, 47 O.T. posts and 47 posts of Drawing Master on regular basis besides 47 posts of part time Water Carrier in Elementary Education Department for 47 newly upgraded Middle Schools so as [...]

शिखर पर रहने की चाह सबके मन में रहती है चाहे वो खरा न भी हो, खरखराहट ही करता हो। खरखराहट करते हुए भी ऊपर की ओर बढ़ते जायेंगे। शिखर की ओर चढ़ना यानी ऊंचाई ही विकास है। विकास प्रत्‍येक करना चाहता है पर विकास जो ऊपर भेजता हो, उससे सब बचते हैं। ऊपर जाने [...]

जी हाँ यह प्रश्न मेरे सामने ठीक उसी तरह आया जिस तरह सचिन की दोहरे शतक में 25 तेज चौके आये थे. ममता बनर्जी दिन में रेल बजट पेश करके रात को मेरे सहपाठी संजय बरागटा के सवाल पर नाराज होकर कार्यक्रम से उठ कर जा चुकी थीं लेकिन दक्षिणी अफ्रीका अभी भी देविलिअर्स के [...]

Finally in the year 2010, 63 years after independence, the railway minister announces the extension of the railway line to Leh. However, it would be interesting to see that how much it will take before the railway line is completed. The proposal of Bilaspur railway line has been hanging for last 50 years and it [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh’s first Chief Minister, late Dr. Y.S. Parmar’s, wife, Satyawati Parmar, died here last evening of prolonged illness. Himachal Pradesh Governor, Urmila Singh, and Chief Minister, Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, expressed grief over her demise and prayed for peace to her soul.