Kolkata engineer designs wonder rickshaw
Kolkata: A Kolkata engineer has designed a cycle-rickshaw that uses passenger load to push the vehicle and reduces the puller’s drudgery by using bumps…
Pranab Mukherjee: Politician nonpareil becomes constitutional guardian
New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee, set to be India’s next president, is a rare politician who has never been a mass leader but who commands…
Great Himalayan National Park pitches for World Heritage status
Shimla: The Great Himalayan National Park in Himachal Pradesh, one of the richest biodiversity sites in the western Himalayas, has come closer to getting…
Himachal BJP legislator seeks change in state leadership
Shimla: The infighting within Himachal Pradesh’s BJP government came to the fore Wednesday after a party legislator wrote to party president Nitin Gadkari seeking…
15 killed in fire at Vizag Steel Plant
Hyderabad: At least 15 people were killed and 20 others injured in a major fire that broke out at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Wednesday…
Himachal Police arrests 8 Taiwanese nationals
Shimla/New Delhi: Eight foreigners, suspected to be Taiwanese, who have been arrested for illegally staying in Himachal Pradesh, were sent to three days police…
Mehdi Hassan – my immortal ‘ghazal traash’
New Delhi: The first I heard about Mehdi Hassan, whom now I call an amazing “ghazal traash” (sculptor of ghazals), was in 1966 when…
Temperatures soar across Himachal
Shimla: A heat wave again gripped parts of Himachal Pradesh Tuesday with temperatures crossing 40 degrees Celsius. State capital Shimla too recorded a high…
Poetry on stone: Timeless genre in revival across India
New Delhi: It is 6.30 in the morning as a group of 12 poets assemble at the Purana Gumbad in Lodi Gardens Sunday under…
Chandigarh Sukhna Lake fast dying out
Chandigarh’s famous Sukhna Lake, the most-visited tourist spot in the ‘City Beautiful’, is gasping for breath and attention. Built in 1958, huge areas of…