Low fruit productivity, industrial blues hits growth in Himachal
byShimla: Industrial slowdown on account of withdrawal of incentives and lowest fruit crop production in eight years has hit growth in the hill state…
Industry
Small and Medium IT firms seek tax exemptions
byShimla: As competition mounts amidst global uncertainties and high interest burden, slowing down the Indian economy, small and medium Information Technology (IT) firms, up…
Winsome to set up new textile unit at Baddi
byShimla: Withdrawal of tax incentives having led to a trickle in new industrial investment proposals; at a high level meeting, the state government here…
Sand mining for power projects devours rich paddy fields in Himachal
byShimla: Short on arable land, much of the prized paddy fields in Himachal laid out by thousands of years of rivers sedimentation are fast…
Weavers’ woes: Government packages pass them by
byNew Delhi : Ali Husain Ansari, a weaver of embroidered Mughal textiles and owner of Abdul Ghani Silk in Varanasi town of northern India,…
Cement prices cut in Himachal
byShimla : After ignoring the Himachal Pradesh government’s directions for months to reduce the prices of cement , companies have finally agreed to reduce…
Kangris and Kashmiris…one can’t be separated from the other
byKhrew (Jammu and Kashmir) : For 40-year-old Bashir Ahmad Sheikh, it doesn’t matter whether the art of weaving the traditional Kashmiri firepot, the kangri,…
Nod for smaller bio-tech park in Himachal
byShimla : The Himachal Pradesh government today gave its approval for setting up of a bio-technology park at Aduwal near Nalagarh in Solan district…
Himachal High Court stays land acquisition for Ambuja cement plant
byShimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court has stayed land acquisition in six villages of Solan district by Himachal government that was intended for being…
Separate authority to boost tea production in India
byKailashahar (Tripura): The government would soon constitute a separate directorate under the Tea Board to boost tea production by small growers in India, Confederation…