Shimla: Holding a mirror to the higher judiciary, eminent jurist VR Krishna Iyer, a retired Supreme Court judge here stated that long past the colonial era, judiciary had failed in its duty to deliver justice to the common man.
With Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishanan sitting on the dais, the nonagenarian justice Iyer speaking [...]

Shimla: Absorbing the setback of the below expectations transfers recommended by the 12 Finance Commission, the Himachal Pradesh government budget today sought to tighten belts and proposed overall increase of 4 percent value added tax (VAT) slab to 5% that would raise prices of many items barring edible oil and food grains, which stand exempted.
Other [...]

Shimla: There were a record over 1.14 crore tourists who visited the state in 2009, which was more than 17 percent from the previous year. The states current population is projected to be only 70.29 lakhs.
In response to a question by Kaul Singh (congress), during question hour chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal let the legislative [...]

Shimla: Himachal Produce Marketing Corporation (HPMC) in the presence of chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and Swami Ramdev of Patanjali Yogpeeth entered into an understanding for supplying of apple juice concentrate and other products to the Haridwar based Ayurved unit for 2 years.
Speaking after the signing function, the Yoga guru said that the juice concentrate [...]

Shimla: A meeting between chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman planning commission at Delhi today firmed up the 2010-11 annual plan for Himachal at Rs 3000 crore.

The plan size has been increased by 11 percent over last year’s plan of Rs 2700, providing additional Rs 300 crore for the new [...]

Chamba: Hundreds of people from Churah valley marched into Chamba town with banners, demanding suspension of four corrupt gram panchayat pradhans and dismissal of congress MLA Surinder Kumar Bhardwaj, whom the protesters alleged was responsible for shielding the corrupt practices of the pradhans. A big section of the society submitted a memorandum addressed to the [...]

Shimla: Mohit Chauhan bags Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer in male category for Masakalli (Delhi 6) on 27th February, 2010.
Mohit, the well known singer for his romantic and unique deep voice, started his career singing with the band Silk Route. They bagged many awards for their song ‘Dooba Dooba’ of their first album ‘Boondein’.
Recently [...]

Shimla: With an eye on the degrading human values and increasingly fragmented Indian Ethos, Himachal Pradesh University UGC-Academic Staff College has organised a twenty-one day long Refresher Course in the campus on the theme “Human Values and Indian Ethos”.
About fifty participants are partaking in the event from different states like Orissa, Maharashtra, Chandigarh, Rajsthan, Assam, [...]

Shimla: Contaminated drinking water supply induced jaundice outbreak in the capital found echo in the Vidhan Sabha today with congress president Kaul Singh Thakur moving a call attention motion.
In his reply health minister Rajiv Bindal let the house know that between December and January, 264 people suffering from Hepatitis E jaundice were admitted to Indira [...]

Shimla: Marking the achievements of the BJP governments second year into the term, Governor Urmila Singh in her budget session inaugural address counted increasing road connectivity for villages, scaling up reservation for women in Panchayati Raj Insitutions and putting farm labs to use in conducting soil health conditions as the high points.
At open of [...]

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.

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 who [...]

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 expect [...]

(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. 11 [...]

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 Services, [...]

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 [...]

Shimla: Anuj Sharma the famous Himachal folk singer and Indian Idol’s, a reality TV-show, second runners up is all set to rock his fans around the world with his latest album ‘KHWAAB’ with UNIVERSAL MUSIC Company, to be released on 3rd March, 2010.
Talking to My Himachal News he said,“ We had planned to release the [...]