Shimla: District administration is all braced up to tackle the ‘Hartal’ call given by CPI (M) and a general strike announced by BJP in protest against the petro price hike, even as many private schools have declared Monday a holiday and grocery stores have warned about milk supplies getting affected. [...]

Shimla: With a number of people falling prey to mobile phone or internet lottery schemes, false investment proposals, overseas scholarship or job offers that entice with providing remittances in US dollars, Reserve Bank of India officers here today warned no such schemes are permitted under the Foreign Exchange Management Act [...]

Shimla: Governor Urmila Singh as Chancellor of Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur today appointed Dr. Shyam Kumar Sharma, Director, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Pussa Campus, New Delhi as Vice Chancello of the agriculture university for a period of 3 years. Dr Sharma’s will take effective [...]

Shimla: British national Jodie Underhill, popularly known as garbage girl, was today honoured with a green award for running ‘Mountain Cleaners’, a voluntary organization that collects disposal waste left behind by tourists in Dharamshala. Felicitating the Briton at the inauguration of a two environment film festival organized by Centre for [...]

Shimla: A bus conductor, Nikka Ram (38), was found dead near a road at 103 tunnel of the Shimla-Kalka rail track in the city by the police. We received information about a person lying on the road at about 11.30 p.m., said a spokesman of Shimla west police station. On [...]

Shimla: The Queen’s Baton relay, which would be used to light the Commonwealth Games flame in Delhi would reach Shimla on 5th July, where it would be received by chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal at the historic Ridge Maidan. Anurag Thakur, MP and general secretary of HP Olympic Association would [...]

Shimla: While the state government has been harping upon making Himachal Pradesh a hub for obtaining quality higher education, it came as a rude shock to learn that in the 2009-10 batch there were only 102 students who appeared for the BA III Honour’s Examination, the result for which was [...]

Shimla: Finding the going tough to contain growing of contraband crops like cannabis and opium in remote and inaccessible valley’s, police is hoping to rope in local resident who would be provided employment under NREGA, the employment guarantee scheme to uproot the illegally grown plants. On taking charge as new [...]

Shimla: Traffic on the narrow gauge Kalka-Shimla heritage rail track that was disrupted for over six hours on Thursday due to an engine getting derailed was restored today, a railway official said. No one was injured in the accident that took place near Koti town. A rain induced landslide blocking [...]

Shimla: To encourage higher research, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies announced a steep increase in grants for a fellowship at the institute of higher learning. The monthly grant for a national fellow has been increased from Rs 25000/- per month to Rs 60,000/- per month, said Ashok Sharma, the institute [...]