Shimla: Numerous farmers of Himachal Kisan Sabha held a protest outside various Forest Departments around the State, against the new TD policy and the anti encroachment drive carried out by the Himachal Pradesh Government.
Dr. KuldeepSingh Tanwar in a public meeting castigated at the state government for forming an anti people policy that goes against the [...]

Introduction (for the initiated, for foreigners, for skeptics and for believers)
Ramayana is the most important and influential epic ever written. The epic has defined the code of Indian customs and morality for at least twenty to twenty-five centuries, and if we compare by sheer numbers, Ramayana has been the book or saga that has [...]

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: Congress, the main opposition party has termed BJP government 3rd budget of the term as anti-inclusive, anti farmer and anti people wherein addition tax burden has been imposed on a people living under runaway food prices.
Reacting to budget proposals that chief minister Dhumal put out in the house, Vidya Stokes, leader of the opposition [...]

Urmila Singh, Governor inaugurated an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, ceramics and prints titled ‘Digressions’ and ‘Phalgun Utsav’ at Gaiety theatre Shimla today. The exhibition was organised jointly by Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi and Language, Art and Culture Department, Himachal Pradesh.

Shimla: The Women Reservation Bill to ensure 33 percent reservations for women in the Parliament and legislative bodies was passed today in Rajya Sabha.
Ambika Sood, Chairperson, Himachal Pradesh Women Commission has thanked all the parties for ending the fourteen years long battle and showing unequivocal support towards the cause.
She lauded the efforts made by the [...]

Shimla: A day after the Himachal government announced a stiff 30 percent hike in bus fares, opposition congress today staged a walkout in the ongoing budget session of the assembly demanding a roll back.
Not satisfied with chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal’s reply to the motion of thanks over the governors address, Vidya Stokes leader [...]

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: By incorporating lessons learnt in Costa Rica about sustainable management of natural resources, the Himachal government is preparing a comprehensive environment plan that would be put to World Bank for funding; the Himachal assembly was told today.
In response to a question by Gangu Ram Mussafir (Congress) who sought to know what the state stood [...]

Shimla: Overcoming resistance from animal right activists, the Himachal Pradesh government has allowed killing of antelope blue bull (neel gai) to protect crops.
Forest minister JP Nadda in response to a question from Mukesh Agnihotri (congress) let the Vidhan Sabha know during question hour that the government has issued a notification to the effect on March [...]

Shimla: With transportation of manufactured goods becoming a major hurdle in the industrial belt of Baddi-Nalagarh, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry has sought rail connectivity to the manufacturing hub on a priority basis.
Speaking at a PHD committee meet in Baddi, Dhian Chand – chairman PHD Himachal said “connecting Baddi, Barotiwala and Nalagarh by railways [...]

Shimla: Pointing out the predominance of CD culture in the state, leader of the opposition Vidya Stokes launched an offensive against the government saying that the polity had become subservient to corruption.
Participating in motion of thanks to the governors’ address, she said that if the state had to regain its clean image, there was a [...]

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 [...]

Urmila Singh, Governor, being presented a 1005 paged book on Himachal Pradesh a “Himalayan Dream Land” at Shimla.

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: With an overcast sky nipping day temperatures, the met department has forecast rain and snow over the next 48 hours.
Met director Manmohan Singh said that a western disturbance is going to affect the state, adjoining western Himalayan region and the plains.
Under influence of the disturbance, rain and snowfall is likely to occur at a [...]

Shimla: In order to have an academic auditing system to account for huge amount of public funding being spent on education and for having a comparable education standard across the country, National Testing Service (NTS) has been created by human resource ministry for evolving a centralised mechanism to cater to the evaluation requirements.
Spelling out the [...]

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 [...]