Shimla: Repeated achievements of Sarika Katoch have memorized the name in everyones mind. Today, again she is a news-maker with her nomination as an election observer for Presidential elections in Ghana. “I am representing 53 countries of the World Commonwealth, where I will observe the three part election scenario i.e. [...]

Shimla: A farmer, Neel Kamal Thakur, presented a box of Kiwi to Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, which was a produce of his 8,500 feet high altitude orchard at Patan village in Banjar sub-division of district Kullu. This is an example of successfully cultivating trans-climatic hybrid fruits in adverse climatic conditions. [...]

[lang_en]. Heritage villages to be insured: CM Shimla: A destructive fire engulfed one of the oldest villages of Himachal Pradesh in Kullu, Solang village, near Manali on Tuesday evening. About thirty-five houses out of fifty are reported to have been gutted. Luckily there was no injuries and loss of life. [...]

[lang_en]Shimla: Ginger growers of the Shillai area in Sirmaur district, is famous for producing good varieties of ginger, have alleged apathy of the State Government towards them despite their crop fetching valuable foreign exchange from overseas markets. They demanded that the State Government should fix minimum support price for their [...]

[lang_en]Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Governor, Prabha Rau, inaugurated the six day long 35th Jawaharlal Nehru National Science Exhibition for Children – 2008 organized by the State Government and National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) at Solan today. Adressing the occasion, she stressed upon the need to inculcate scientific aptitude [...]

Shimla: The Queen of Hills received season’s first snowfall on Wednesday mid-night, which is about two weeks earlier than last year. White blanket covered the upper regions of Shimla as well as the entire tribal belt and other higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh. This year the snow has arrived early [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh is trying to get over with those big paper files and registers by substituting them with computerized system. Today, Food and Civil Supplies Department poised for its computerization. While addressing a meeting, Ms. Harinder Hira, Additional Chief Secretary, Food and Civil Supplies said that all the processes [...]

[lang_en] Shimla: Chancellor of Jaypee University as well as Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Prabha Rau, made her first visit to Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat. She visited all the important blocks of the university and interacted with the students and staff. Jaypee University of Information Technology is recognised by [...]

Suresh Rana, the one name which has made five consecutive wins in Raid-de-Himalaya, offers his recipe for success to motorsport aspirants as “Mind should always be faster than the machine.” You can see him driving white Maruti Gypsy (HP-66-1111) with “RANA” written on the driver’s window, Rana talks to winds [...]

[lang_en] Shimla: Third training workshop programme organized by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry under PHD-KAF Project concluded today at Govt. Polytechnic College Kandaghat with the active cooperation of the Department of Technical Education. The two day long personality development programme was organized to polish written and verbal communication [...]