Cabinet allots controversial hydro project to Himachal electricity board
Shimla: Burying the controversy over allotment of a 15 MW hydropower project, the cabinet today decided to hand it over to HP State Electricity…
Himachal congress rebels rudderless without a ‘high command’
Shimla: Whispers for a change in the congress party may have gone louder but the sporadic dissidence has failed to muster enough strength to…
Shanta, Nadda, Anurag eye slots in Modi cabinet
Shimla: Ties bolstered during 1994-99, a time when Narinder Modi was party general secretary incharge for Himachal, are being counted upon to include at…
Himachal Varsity Vice-Chancellor For Fee Hike, Ban On Students Elections
The outgoing academic said that more often than not it was the involvement of political parties in student’s politics that was detrimental to academic environment on the campus.
Virbhadra digs in as Congress high command in doll drums
Shimla: A defiant octogenarian Virbhadra Singh has dug in to hold onto the hill fort Himachal even as Congress faces a countrywide identity crisis…
Himachal cabinet reposes faith in Virbhadra, approves medical college for Hamirpur
Shimla: A restive Virbhadra cabinet, fresh from having suffered a rout in the recent polls, met here earlier today and approved to set up…
Modi wave sweeps Himachal, Virbhadra refuses to resign
BJP not only won all the four seats in the state but also won Sujjanpur Tira assembly segment, the bye election for which was held along with the parliamentary poll, to make the rout complete for the ruling party in the state.
RBI ready for volatility in financial markets on poll results – Dr Raghuram
A day ahead of the election results, the governor talking to reporters said “the Reserve Bank was fully prepared for any volatility in the markets tomorrow when the Lok Sabha election results are to be declared.
Himachal Govt Hounding Honest Officers Fighting Corruption In High Places – Bhandari, former DGP
All efforts are being made to silence an upright police officer who knows much about the corrupt deeds of some of the most powerful people in Himachal – ID Bhandari, former DGP
Parliamentary poll result has Virbhadra government edgy
Nervous as the Virbhadra Singh government is about the parliamentary election results, a chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) putting in his papers, a Damocles sword hanging over the chief minister’s head to show performance in the face of adversity and an aggressive opposition baying for the government scalp have only deepened the political crisis in the state.