Shimla: With a motive to give tourists another exciting way to reach the Queen of Hills, Railway Department has proposed to introduce two new Summer Special Trains on Kalka-Shimla route. The decision to run two special trains has been taken keeping in mind the growing number of tourists that trip [...]

Shimla: To take all inquisitive mountain bike riders on ‘a trail like no other’, Being Out There is organizing a two-day ESCAPE – MTB Ride from Shimla to Chandigarh on 4th and 5th May, 2013. The weekend ride from Shimla to Chandigarh will be a 150kms fun and testing ride [...]

A shallow earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck parts of North India at about 12:27.12 p.m. today. The epicenter was Lat. 33.10 N Long. 75.80 E in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Meteorological Department declared. Early reports reveal one causality and more than 25 people injured in two different locations [...]

New Delhi/Kishtwar: Tremors were felt in the Indian capital and large parts of north India, including Srinagar, Jammu, Shimla and Chandigarh, following a 5.8 magnitude quake centred near the Jammu and Kashmir-Himachal Pradesh border Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties. “The quake happened at 12.27 p.m. and measured [...]

The enchanting and attracting beauties of Shimla, which the residents are much proud of, is all a valuable gift of Britishers who gave this city a new look. They not only made Shimla beautiful but also did develop it with all essential infrastructures like road and railway connectivity, a reliable [...]

Shimla: Seven women and three children, all from Rajasthan, were killed in Himachal Pradesh’s Hamirpur district when their overcrowded jeep skidded off the road and fell into a 500-metre-deep gorge, police said today. The victims, mostly labourers working in a road project, were on their way home when their Bolero [...]

Shimla: The APG Shimla University was recently conferred with the “The Best University in the Hills”- Awarded by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham). The award presented by Dr. M.M.Pallam Raju, Hon’ble Minister of HRD, Government of India, was received by Ms. Priyanka Goyal, Executive Director of [...]

Shimla: Prohibited from selling cigarettes, beedis and other tobacco products within 100 meters of an educational institution under the National Tobacco Control Programme but were one to look at confectioners outside Government Senior Secondary school Boileauganj here blatantly violate the laws, its time the enforcing agencies took a hard look [...]

Dharamsala: InterNational Institute of Fashion Design (INIFD), a Hamirpur based institute held its second round of auditons for ‘Himachal Fashion Hunt  2013’ here today Scouting for ‘Himachal Face of the Year’ and ‘Himachal Designer of the Year’ winners, the competition is slated to be conducted in three phases. Winners would [...]

Shimla: To streamline and make visit of tourists more exceptional and safe, Department of Tourism has proposed to make higher secondary education a minimum requirement to issue tourist guide licenses here. Tourism Department has made the proposal taking in preview the growing incidence of fraud with tourists by tour guides [...]