Shimla: Facing the heat of global competition in the fruit market, apple growers would not be able to get more protection as the union minister of commerce and industry Anand Sharma let parliament know that there was no scope for further increase in tariff rates beyond 50 %, which was [...]

Shimla: Rejecting the representations of Reliance Infrastructure and Adani Power backed Brakel Corporation, the Himachal Pradesh cabinet on today decided to invite fresh bids for the large 960 MW Jangi Powari hydropower project to be set up on Satluj River. Earlier in September 2006 the project was allocated to Brakel Corp [...]

Shimla: Fifteen top schools from India and one from Dubai meet here to trash out debating points, starting Wednesday, at the Slater international inter-school debates hosted by Bishop Cotton School. The schools participating are Frank Anthony Public School, Delhi, La Martiniere Girls School, Kolkata, Dubai Modern High School, La Martiniere [...]

Shimla: The team of Lawrence School Sanawar, which is on an expedition to scale the Mount Everest, has set up Camp 3 before attempting to cross the major obstacle at Khumbu glacier and are in high spirits to get to the top. Headed by Chief Coordinator of the expedition Col PS [...]

Shimla: Getting tough with protesting unions of HP Road Transport Corp (HRTC), minister GS Bali has warned that strong action against the protesting leaders and disciplinary action would be initiated against those making public statements. Talking to reporters, the minister said that the finances of the public transport corporation was [...]

Shimla: Rubbishing any plans of reviving the Himalayan Ski Village project, cabinet minister GS Bali told reporters here today that the company that had initially floated the proposal has dismembered and no one had approached the government for setting up the stalled project. After having killed the project by deterring [...]

Shimla: It’s truly a ‘Top of the World’ experience at the Shimla hills first revolving restaurant that is set in the backdrop of verdant woods which over look a deep and wide valley in the vicinity of a century old golf course at Naldehra. Overlooking ‘The Chalets Naldehra’, a prized [...]

Shimla: Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) stumbled upon internal auditors in Himachal Forest Department maintaining service records of forest officers while 1806 audit paragraphs piled up over a 42 year period involving Rs 543.96 Crores of public funds awaited compliance’s and settlement. A CAG report on state revenues presented in [...]

Shimla: Finding the Virbhadra Singh government short on honouring a mandate secured three months ago, Maheshwar Singh, president Himachal Lokhit Party (HLP), put it on notice for not delivering on the issues for which the people voted the party in. Talking to reporters, the lone HLP legislator in Vidhan Sabah [...]

Shimla: Finding the internationally used scale for assessment of dementia difficult to apply in elderly tribal populations, doctors of Tanda medical college, Kangra have developed a modified scale that can be applied 60 plus tribal people who have no formal education and are largely illiterate. “The Bharmour Mental State Examination (BMSE) scale to be published [...]