Shimla: Rich with incidents that marked important events in the history of the sub-continent, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal unveiled ‘Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai, a coffee table book compiled by the tourism department that documents many heritage buildings and the historical importance they hold. Speaking on the occasion, Dhumal said that even before the [...]

मूर्ख दिवस कहीं जाता नहीं है वो तो यहीं बसा रहता है सबके दिमाग में। बस सिर्फ होता यह है कि एक अप्रैल को वह उकसाए जाने पर अपनी पूर्णता में सिर उठाता है और अपने वजूद का ऐलान कर देता है और देखिए सब उसके प्रभाव में बह जाते हैं या मोहग्रसित हो जाते [...]

Shimla: High altitude tribal’s of Rispa panchayat in Kinnaur are a agitated lot as a hydropower construction company executing 100 MW project in the vicinity tears through steep mountains slopes constructing roads, damaging precious Chilgoza trees and raising clouds of dust along. With the private company allegedly violating both tribal land laws and forest act, [...]

Shimla: Community efforts in watershed management sustained over two years has changed livelihoods patterns in mid-himalayan zone, which otherwise is a water deficient region where village women had to go through a daily grind of trekking long distances to fetch fodder for farm animals. Started in 2007, the World Bank assisted $ 60 million Mid-Himalayan [...]

Shimla: Success rate in captive breeding of the exotic and threatened Western Tragopan pheasant has its best chance this season for not only have the hens laid 52 eggs, but with the first lot having hatched, a chick has broken through the shell and is alive and kicking. Amidst scenic surroundings at the Sarahan peasantry, [...]

Shimla: Not many young Turks having shown interest into entering the fray for the upcoming parliamentary polls, be it the BJP or congress – both parties are relying on old guards, going against the grain of inducting younger candidates so as to reflect electorate profiles.   “Barring the exception of Anurag Thakur, sitting MP from [...]

Shimla: Much like the watered down year, BJP governments one year in office that began with resolutions for change have yet to settle down to the task of good governance as electoral compulsions keep populism high on the agenda. Starting out the new term with asking for doing away with the demeaning feet touching culture, [...]

Success of ‘home stay tourism’ hinges on travelers seeking alternative accommodation to regular hotels along roads less traveled and going by the huge bills the government has piled up to maintain its rest houses – fetching very little revenues in return, the scheme may just get a fillip from the drain these public rest houses [...]

Shimla: Not only has BJP picked up a candidate dropped by congress to fight the assembly election just before nominations closed, the party has also quietly set out to rehabilitate disgraced former parliamentarian Suresh Chandel, who was expelled from the Lok Sabha after being caught in cash for query sting operation. Chandel told My Himachal [...]

It is difficult, dangerous, challenging and sheer adventure – just to be out there. It would be a sorry rallyist who went unprepared to the Himalayas for the Raid. Come October, just before the snows settle on high passes and the Raid-de-Himalaya will have got underway covering 2400 kilometers in under a week. The 9th [...]