State Bank Of India To Avail $625 Mn World Bank Funding For Rooftop Solar Project
byNew Delhi: The State Bank of India (SBI) today announced financing of rooftop solar projects worth Rs. 400 crore, with private developers. This would add…
Environment
Clean Up Drive At Rewalsar Lake For Environment Day
byMandi: The district administration and the local Nagar Panchayat at Rewalsar have teamed up to launch a clean up drive in and around the…
Celebrating the Bio-Diversity of Himachal Pradesh
byPerhaps for the first time in Himachal, the International Day for Biological Diversity which fell on 22 May each year, was celebrated in a…
Kangra Varsity Holds Climate Literacy For Earth Day
byDharamshala: On the occasion of Earth day students and faculty of School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, in Dharamshala ,came…
VULTURE
byDerived from the Latin vultur and possibly from vellere “to pluck, to tear”, the Vulture is universally known and often finds mention in old…
Miss Himachal 2017 Aspirants Participate in MecLeod Ganj Clean Up Drive
byDharamshala: The Environment desk (CUDP) of Tibetan Settlement Office in collaboration with a local media group organized an Environment Conservation Rally wherein a public…
Kullu Devta Keeps A Date With Weather Gods
byVillagers in Ughi valley of Kullu are thanking their Devta for the bountiful snow, something that sustain’s livelihoods of human’s and animal in the hills.
Delhi Belly: Stop Messing With Shimla’s Green Belt
byIt really is astonishing (but not surprising) that fifteen years after the 17 green belts in Shimla were notified as no-construction zones, their necessity…
Manali Gets Seasons First Snowfall
byManali: The weather gods finally blessed Manali with the season’s first snowfall today. After much waiting, snow and rain in Kullu – Manali have…
Unique High Altitude Healers – Heun Shelih
byPeople visiting high altitude water bodies for religious yatras and nomadic shepherds can be seen kissing the meadows while collecting this lichen; it finds prized application in the treatment of skin diseases, especially for burn scars.