Goa, where petrol price goes south!
byPanaji : Goa may now come to be known more for cheap petrol than the local drink feni. The new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
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Historic opportunity for Hu Jintao to engage Dalai Lama
byHistory beckons China’s President Hu Jintao during his India visit if he sheds entrenched antipathies and chooses to directly engage the Dalai Lama with…
Has India stopped making jean jackets !
byFor the last five years or so surprisingly jean(denim) jackets are no longer available in India . What has happened , have global apparel…
Shimla: No longer a walker’s paradise
byDuring a recent visit to Shimla, I was shocked to see a large number of vehicles parked on the road near CTO building on…
Himachal watcher: If ‘somebody’ has to do this, it has to be ‘me’
byThere is an old saying in Hindi: “Akela chana bhad nahin fod sakta” and there is a young man who calls himself Himachal Watcher….
India’s defence budget: absence of strategic vision
byThe Indian defence expenditure for the financial year 2012-13 has been budgeted at a fairly high figure of Rs.193,407 crore (budgeted expenditure, or BE)…
Shimla police fails to check looting of Nepalese travellers
byShimla : Nepali labour returning home from Shimla’s bus station in Himachal Pradesh are being frequently robbed of their hard earned money by gangs…
Rishikesh-Karanprayag line : the bubble has burst
byDehradun : The people of Uttarakhand had waited with baited breath for the railway budget and not without reason. For all were keen to…
Himachal house sees all time low scenes
byShimla : It was a disgraceful show by MLAs from both the Congress and the BJP in the Himachal Pradesh assembly today as they…
What tilted the balance in favour of Vijay Bahuguna
byDehradun : Vijay Bahuguna, son of the late Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, perhaps the most respected and popular leader of Uttarakhand, was amongst the back…