Hills beckon year-end revellers in droves
byKumarhatti: Even as the year-end celebrations are just round the corner the hotels in the area have geared up to counter the rush of…
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7-lakh kids to get polio drops
bySOLAN: During 1st and 2nd rounds of Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization Campaign in state on December 21 and February 1st respectively, around 7.24-lakh children…
BIG TV becomes the biggest DTH service in Himachal Pradesh
byShimla: BIG TV, the fully digital DTH service from Reliance Communications has achieved over 14,000 subscribers across Himachal Pradesh and has a network of…
‘Fiscal package too little, too late’ –CPI(M)
byShimla: The Communist Party of India (Marxists) has slammed the fiscal package announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for averting an economic slowdown as…
BBMB Dredger in troubled waters
byMandi: Despite two days efforts BBMB could not pull out its dredger which almost drowned into the balancing reservoir of 990 MW BSL Project…
Himachal Hotels out to cash in New Year Festivities
byShimla: New Year evening bash prices may have come off their highs in celebrated destinations like Mumbai and Goa but going by the packages…
Bomb scare in Himachal turns out to be a hoax
byShimla: An alarm about a suspicious bomb like object in Nihalgarh village near Poanta Sahib of Sirmaur district on Thursday morning brought out the…
No New District, but new Rep. for Leftout Districts: Dhumal
byShimla: Contradicting the mentions in some news items of creating new district in the State, Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal called it baseless and far…
Explosives seized from Six Nepalis by CRPF
byShimla: The Hindu reported six Nepal citizens heading from somewhere near Shimla to Uttrakhand were arrested by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for…
Unitech Wireless and Idea Cellular grab GSM spectrum in Himachal
byMobile operators Unitech Wireless and Idea Cellular have been allocated 4.4MHz of spectrum in the 1800MHz band by the the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)…