Shimla: R M Khanna (on left), a first generation entrepreneur and currently the Managing Director of Stanley Engineering Pvt Ltd., and Vijay K Thadani (on right), the Chief Executive Officer of NIIT Ltd, have been elected as Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively of the Confederation of Indian Industry (Northern Region) for the year 2010 -11. [...]

Shimla: Tata DOCOMO, the GSM brand from Tata Teleservices stable today launched its mobile services in the crowded market of Himachal, which other than already having a high tele-density has 9 other players providing mobile telephone services in the state. Speaking at the launch Aditya Gupta, chief operating officer for Himachal said that since the [...]

Shimla: The Himachal Vidhan Sabha today passed the budget of Rs 16270.74 crore for 2010-11 after having discussed the demands for police, irrigation and public health, public works, health and education, but not before applying the guillotine on the others. Chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal presented the HP Appropriation Bill, 2010 for voting in the [...]

Shimla: An Inspector General of Himachal Pradesh Police, Pardeep Kumar Sarpal, along with his wife and son are booked over a case of suicide by a 27-year-old girl, Ritu Kalmotia, under sections 306 and 201, sources said. On the FIR lodged by girl’s father, the IGP officer’s family was booked for abetting to suicide and [...]

Shimla: The much awaited Mobile Number Portability, a technology which allows a mobile phone user to retain the mobile number even after changing to another mobile operator, has been postponed by 3 months and will be introduced to the consumers by 30th June, 2010. According to a study conducted by AC Nielsen to gauge consumer [...]

Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd (GFL) has announced that Inox Wind Ltd (IWL), the Company’s subsidiary company, has effectively commissioned its project at a village called Basal in Una District of Himachal Predesh, for manufacturing Wind Operated Electricity Generators – Wind Turbines comprising of Nacelle(s) and Hub(s) for 2 MW Wind Turbine. We have commenced commercial production [...]

Shimla: A dilapidated built up structure on a small plot being used as a nighttime shelter by an insane Gorkha, fetched a whopping price Rs 1.86 crore when it went under the hammer on Sunday afternoon. Beating recessionary trends elsewhere, property prices in this land scare hill resort appreciated more than a couple of notches [...]

Shimla: Cement major, Ambuja Cements commissioned a 1.5 million ton capacity grinding unit at Nalagarh on Saturday, making it the company’s 12th such plant in the country and the 3rd on in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal who inaugurated the plant said on the occasion the environment and employment were [...]

यह ठीक वैसा ही है जैसे सर मुंडाते ही ओले पड़ गए हों. ऐसे समय मेंजब हिमाचल के पर्यटन निदेशक सेक्स टूरिज्म की अपनी किताबी सोच को पूरे देश में मान्यता दिलवाने के लिए आतुर हैं हिमाचल में ऐसी घटनायों की बाढ़ आ गयी है जो सोचने पर मजबूर करती है. हिमाचल में अचानक घाटे [...]

Shimla: An ambitious project to provide ambulance services within half an hour of an emergency call in the accident prone state has proved a non-starter as the company that was awarded the multi-year contract has failed to meet even preliminary conditions laid out. Confirming the botched up project award, health minister Rajiv Bindal said, “we [...]

Manali: With as many as 800 adventure seekers currently undergoing training in various disciplines in various locations, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, by end of the month would have trained more than 6700 in adventure sports through 2009-10. Speaking about the adventure activities being undertaken, Randhir Singh Salhuria, director of [...]

Sal Ghati Bhachhao sanghsarsh samiti blocked the road Chamba: Today it was decided by the district administration to hear the grievances of the public of the gram panchyat Sillaghrat for the controversy on the Hul hydro project. Ashwani Kumar Choudhry Additional District Magistrate, Chamba alongwith Sub Divisional Magistrate Sandeep Negi and other officers marched from [...]

Shimla: Sniffing a scam in permitting many private universities in Himachal, the Youth Congress today demanded a CBI inquiry into the land allotment processes adopted for these institutions even as they spelled out plans to agitate against throwing open the mining sector and hiking of bus fares. Talking to the media Manmohan Katoch, president Youth [...]

Shimla: Tech Mahindra, the IT major company that overtook fraud ridden Satyam Computers, last year, has offered campus placement to 18 Bachelor of Information Technology (B.Tech.I.T) final year students of Himachal University Institute of Information Technology (UIIT). Placement incharge at UIIT, Dhirndra Sharma said that the Tech Mahindra had offered a package of Rs.3 Lakh [...]

Shimla: The countries decadal census operation, perhaps the largest exercise of such a kind in the world that is being launched in Himachal Pradesh from 7th April, C Chandramouli – the registrar general and commissioner census operation of India disclosed here today. Talking to the media the commissioner census said, “in Himachal, the first phase [...]

Shimla: Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), the central government agency under ministry of commerce and industry today entered into an Memorandum of Understanding with Himachal Produce Marketing Corporation (HPMC) for providing Rs 6.15 crore financial assistance for upgrading 4 packing houses with latest technology. Pravin Gupta, general manager APEDA, on behalf [...]

Wild Pink Rhododendrons have blossomed a month early in and around Shimla Shimla: Detractors of climate change notwithstanding, unusually warm weather in March has farmers, orchard owners and foresters worried as trees have blossomed a month early, jeopardizing livelihood patterns that are dependent upon a normal nature cycle. Apple trees in lower Kullu valley, lower [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh University’s International Centre for Distance Education and Open Learning (ICDEOL) launched its own website (http://www.icdeolhpu.org/) to give information and updates online to its students. Director ICDEOL Prof. Narender Kumar Sharda said that ICDEOL of this University pioneered in the distance education in the Northern Region with starting number of courses in the [...]