PALAMPUR: Enrolment of students up to elementary level that is up to 8th standard in Himachal Pradesh had reached at 99.67 percent and dropout rate had come down to 0.33 percent which is negligible. This was disclosed by the Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal while talking to a group of media persons from Kangra district [...]

Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister, inaugurated three day long ‘Hamir Utsav’ and congratulated the people of the Hamirpur for having completed 38 years of its formation. There were exhibition stalls put up by different departments like PSUs, NGO, Boards, BSNL, AIDS Control Society and Self Help Groups from different parts of [...]

Shimla: With plans to open up a campus in India, the Middlesex University of London has proposed a tie-up with Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla for an exchange program of scholars. Speaking at a function here, Micheal Driscoll, vice-chancellor Middlesex University said, “both the University and the Institute would stand to gain from an [...]

जी हाँ भाजपा के दुर्योधन की वापसी हो गयी है. हालाँकी सुरेश चंदेल विधानसभा चुनाव के दौरान भी प्रबंधन सिमित और कुल्लू िजला के प्रभारी बनाये गए थे लेिकन तब इसे क्षिणक माना जा रहा था. क्योंिक धूमल को मजबूर होकर चंदेल को चुग डालनी पड़ी था तािक कहीं उनका खेल खराब न हो जाये. [...]

Shimla: While the police struggle to enforce the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotic Substance (NDPS) Act in the state, photographer Amit Kanwar today trapped on camera this unknown man at work at Kufta Dhar near Shimla, rubbing marijuana leaves to extract the resin for making ‘dope’ or ‘charas’. Marijuana plants grow in abundance in the wild [...]

इसे कहते हैं पोल खुलना. ठीक उस समय जब कुछ चाटुकार कीस्म के नौकरशाह हीमाचल सरकार के कर्णधारों को यह विश्वास दिलाने में जुटे हैं की उनकी योजनाओं के चलते राजधानी शीमला की छवि निखरी है, एक साथ आये तीन सर्वेक्षणों ने तल्ख़ हकीकत सामने ला डी है. इन सर्वेक्षणों में हिमाचल की राजधानी को [...]

वैसे नहीं जैसे आप सोच रहे हो हम तो उन अफसरों की बात कर रहे हैं जो मुख्यमंत्री प्रेम कुमार धूमल की दाईं और बाईं आँख माने जाते हैं. सत्ता के गलियारों में क्या हो रहा है और कौन नेता मंत्री और संतरी क्या कर रहा है यह सब बताने वाली धूमल की आँखें कहे [...]

Shimla: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) today sanctioned Rs 110.27 crore for creation of rural infrastructure in Himachal Pradesh. The funds have been allocated under NABARD’s Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) – Tranche XVI. So far the apex rural bank has sanctioned a total of Rs 179.25 crore to the hill state [...]

Shimla: For getting pass a traffic bottleneck on the highway to Kinnaur, the union minister of road transport and highways has approve a feasibility study for construction of Theog bypass in Shimla district. Thakur Gulab Singh, the public works minister said that decks had been cleared for construction of the import bypass road and the [...]

Shimla: After having hiked deposit rates, the Himachal Pradesh State Co-operative Bank (HPSCB) plans to increase its loan interest rates soon. Without disclosing what the hike rate was going to be, Rajinder Singh, managing director HPSCB said, “as our capital costs have gone up, our loan interest rates would soon be increased.” However he disclosed [...]

Shimla: To attract visitors during the hosting of Commonwealth Games, Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) plans to announce a special package. Presiding over a board meeting late on Monday, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said that HPTDC would be soon announcing a special package for attracting visitors from all over the world during the [...]

Shimla: To oversee sports promotion, the state government is contemplating setting up an HP Sports Authority under the chairmanship of the chief minister and involving the youth upto village level in the activities. Presiding over a State Sports Council meet, chief minister PK Dhumal said that the department authorities needed to study memorandum of such [...]

Shimla: The Heritage building of the Viceregal Lodge, now known as the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), is organizing an exhibition of rare photographs of the rooms and offices of the Viceregal Lodge collected from various sources. The IIAS plans to add to this collection of rare photographs of the Viceregal Lodge and organize [...]

Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, announced a new State Youth Award Scheme from current financial year onwards to the Youth Clubs and Individual Youth in recognition to their outstanding performance in mass awakening in environment protection, disaster management, family planning, AIDS Control, organic farming, dairy farming, floriculture, water conservation and prohibition. He was [...]

Shimla: Drawing up norms of minimum student strengths in schools, the government intends to close down 743 elementary schools that have a total strength of less than 10 students and intend to merge them with neighboring ones by providing distance allowance to the affected children. Making the disclosure at an ‘Education Conclave’ organised by the [...]

Shimla: The state got its first eye bank today with chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal inaugurating the new facility at Indira Gandhi Medical College today. Set up in collaboration with Eye Bank of Government Medical College, Chandigarh, at a cost of Rs 40 lakh, the hospital would be able to offer eye donation, processing, preservation [...]

Shimla: Hitting out at the centralization of education sector, BS Dohia, a distinguished educationalist and a former VC of Kurukshetra University said that under the guise of reforms carried out in education over the last two decades, the scenario is chaotic and the regulatory mechanism is in contradiction with the unfolding policy. Delivering a blunt [...]

Shimla: EMC Corporation, a leading company in information infrastructure solutions and National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur today inked and MoU to address emerging knowledge gaps in storage technologies and develop a pool of trained storage professionals. The agreement was signed by Krishna Kant, senior program manager with EMC’s Academic Alliance Program and IK Bhat, [...]