Clearing Manali – Leh road of snow gets underway
byManali: Border Roads Organization (BRO), mandated with constructing and maintaining vital border roads in the Himalayas, have started snow clearing operations on strategically important…
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Documenting Spiti in winter – Himanshu Khagta
bySpring has broken out in many Himalayan valleys, but Spiti, cut off from the world and under heaps of snow, without electricity for nearly…
Vendors, CITU protest for marketing space in Kullu bazaar
byKullu: Demanding marketing space for street vendors, Central Industrial Trade Union (CITU) for the past three days has been holding protests against the Kullu…
Himachal High Court yet to decide 296 decade old cases
byShimla: Saddled with a pile of cases, some of them more than a decade old, in all there were 265,840 cases pending before the…
Uttarakhand goes for tax free 2015-16 budget
byDehradun: Based on an annual state revenue projection of Rs 9670.30 crore and state share of central taxes devolution of Rs 5526.08 crore, finance…
Court issues contempt notices – directs Himachal to implement Shetty Pay Commission in toto
byShimla: Having rubbished the HP Subordinate Courts Employees (Pay, Allowances & other conditions of service) Act 2005 on 3rd January, 2014, the Himachal Pradesh…
Himalayan IIT holds its second Convocation
byMandi: The youngest of them all and the only IIT in the Himalayas, IIT Mandi held its second convocation ceremony at its Kamand campus…
President Mukherjee gives IIT Mandi convocation a miss, prays at Bagla Mukhi Temple
byDharamshala: President Pranab Mukherjee, who was scheduled to be the chief guest for the second convocation held at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi was…
Robotic applications to assist future surgeries
byMandi: India, a country saddled with more poor patients and not enough budget allocated for quality healthcare, would find it difficult to extend minimum…
Kullu doctors threaten to resign, demand security at regional hospital
byKullu: Doctors and health workers at Kullu regional hospital today held a protest and have threatened to resign because of an insecure working environment…