Queen of hills abused by govt on new year’s eve
byShimla : For the first time in the long history of Shimla a unique tradition has been violated and destroyed . And ironically the…
Environment
No snow leaves New Year’s revelers high and dry in Himachal
byShimla: Bright sunny days in the hills of Himachal Pradesh are thawing away the tourists’ plans to usher in the New Year in a…
Himachal town planners hauled in court for haphazard constructions around Manali
byShimla: Finding fault with the ‘indiscriminate and haphazard construction’ being permitted in the hill state, especially in Kullu-Manali area, the Himachal High Court came…
Is Shimla’s white Christmas a thing of the past !
byShimla : Oh, for a white Christmas and New Year! That is now the feeling in Shimla where snow on Christmas has become a…
Uttarakhand bans mining in Ganga
byDehra Dun : Succumbing to the indefinite hunger strike undertaken by Shivanand Saraswati, founder head of the Matrisadan Ashram in the holy city of…
Himachal hydro, trading local environment for climate change: German study
byShimla: Hydropower dams in Himalayas, marketed as clean energy that will earn developers cash credits under carbon-offsetting Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme, appear to…
Over 9 hectares of forests lost per minute: UN report
byRome : More than nine hectares of forests were lost per minute between 1990 and 2005, a period when the world’s deforestation rate accelerated,…
‘Rohtang’s ecology needs preservation’
byManali : Human interference disturbing the fragile ecology of a high Himalayan mountain pass overlooking this tourist resort has caught the attention of the…
Sewage, saltwater used to grow trees in Israel desert
byJerusalem: Scientists in Israel are growing trees in the barren land of the Arava desert by using recycled sewage and saltwater. This forest planted…
Tibet vulnerable to climate change, says Karmapa
byDharamsala : Tibet is highly vulnerable to climate change and what happens there matters greatly to the rest of mainland Asia, the 17th Karmapa…