Colonizers damaging Himachal’s ecology
Shimla: Forests are vanishing, rock blasts are traumatising wild animals and debris is filling up riverbeds with builders having a field day in Himachal…
Himachal Congress legislators knock on Sonia’s door
Shimla: Not too sure of an anti-incumbency wave carrying them to victory in the upcoming Himachal Pradesh assembly elections, opposition Congress legislators have knocked…
Neither Congress nor BJP has the people’s mandate
Elections in India for even the panchayats and civic bodies are seen as political barometers. Although they are supposed to reflect local concerns, no…
Amarnath pilgrimage registration from May 7
Jammu: The Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) Saturday announced that the registration for the annual pilgrimage to the cave shrine devoted to Lord Shiva…
Montek to push for declaring tea as India’s national drink
Guwahati:Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia Saturday assured the tea planters in Assam that he will take up the issue of…
All killed in Pakistan airplane crash
Islamabad: All 127 people on board the Bhoja Airlines flight that crashed near here have died and their bodies have been shifted to a…
Shimla traffic woes and accidents
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In Nepal, 68 percent of Maoist army opts for voluntary retirement
Kathmandu: A total of 6,574 ex-Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the (UCPN-M)’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) combatants, have opted for voluntary retirement, a…
Tata airline bid was thwarted under rivals pressure – MK Kaw
New Delhi: In 1997, then civil aviation minister C.M. Ibrahim acted under pressure from Jet Airways to thwart the Tata group’s bid to start…
Dhumal for lower interest rate on NABARD loans
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today called for a cut in the interest rate on the National Bank for Agriculture and…