Thiruvananthapuram: Women cutting across social strata celebrated the famed Attukal Pongala festival with devotion and fervour here Tuesday. The women lined up on either side of the roads in the capital city to cook their offering (“pongala”) on makeshift stoves of bricks and firewood at the famed Attukal Bhagawathi temple. [...]

Shimla: Heavy snowfall on the high reaches and thundershowers in the down streamed lashed many part of Himachal Pradesh disrupting road and vehicular traffic as cold wave unabated life in the state. Owing to low pressure developed over Rajasthan, entire Northwest India is under the inclement weather conditions. The Met office said that heavy snowfall [...]

Shimla: Failing to resolve a decade old dispute over PPP property Hotel Wildflower Hall and the books showing losses that have crossed Rs 100 Cr mark, the Himachal cabinet on Tuesday sought a CAG audit into the accounts of the company. An official spokesman said, “cabinet approved to entrust audit [...]

Manali: Tourists for the last many years are having to put up with a rough and bumpy ride into the Kullu-Manali valley as the highway (National Highway – 21) is dire need of repair and maintenance, but continues to be neglected by the concerned authorities. Stretches of the highway that [...]

Shimla: Beyond hydro power development, agriculture, industry and environment, World Bank was open to including tourism under the Green Growth and Sustainable Development program funded through $ 200 million (Rs 1100 Cr) development policy loan (DPL) is under implementation. Talking to Hill Post, chief secretary Sudripta Roy said, increasing footfalls [...]

Shimla: The state government has hiked fares for the long route buses of Himachal Roadways  (HRTC) that offer night travel. The fares has been increased by Rs 20 per passenger. The hike in the form of night charges is applicable only to the passengers travelling over a distance of more than [...]

New Delhi : Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh who called on union minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, ahead of finalizing the years railways budget at Delhi, Monday stressed for expanding the network in the state, which had virtually comet to a stand still. He requested that Bhanupalli-Bilaspur-Beri rail line may be completed [...]

Sarnath: It’s a trip down the Buddha’s lane, into antiquity and serenity. Tracking the Buddha’s path, the Mahaparinirvana Express is for the historian, the tourist and, of course, the pilgrim seeking salvation in retracing the footsteps of the man who walked this land some 2,400 years ago. The special train [...]

Species of migratory birds wintering in Pong Wetland, a Ramsar Site, is growing by the year with ornithologists sighting new species at the annual waterfowl estimation that put the avian population in the large water body at over 123,000 this season. “The annual waterfowl estimation carried out at Pong Dam [...]

Manali: Exotic sport of heli-skiing in Kullu-Manali valley takes off on Saturday morning (2nd Feb, 2013) even as foreign tourists booked for a week long stay in the resort township here are forced to take a road or train journey to Chandigarh, before a helicopter pickup is arranged, as there [...]