Despite there being a huge demand, the environment ministry has only cleared 17 mining leases for Himachal Pradesh. Even of the 166 ongoing leases, wherever the lease period has ended, it was not being renewed for want of the mandatory environmental clearance that was not easy to get by.
Shimla: Early apple varieties fast reaching maturity, the fruit harvest in Himachal Pradesh is ready to start with the first batches already having hit…
Corruption has taken a new leaf in Uttarakhand. It is now state-sponsored corruption, if the manner in which land has been acquired in the past in the garb of industrializing this small hill state and given to private builders for peanuts, who have then sold it at sky-high prices. But no one has battered an eye-lid.
Still smarting from the severe drubbing the party got in the Lok Sabha poll and unable to blame the rain for the electoral reverses, state Congress leaders having been playing the blame game for over a month, unsure about where the buck stops.
Shimla: Before finance minister Arun Jaitley presents his maiden budget in Parliament next week, chief minister Virbhadra Singh today brought up the tough terrain…
Shimla: Having to live and work under rising pollution levels in the industrial belts of Baddi, Barotiwala & Nalagarh, representatives of communities from the…
Shimla: Passing through rich apple orchard lands, it is one of Himachal’s worst roads that has fruit growers and opposition BJP agitated, who are…
Shimla: Intent upon pushing up fruit crops productivity and upgrading post harvest management infrastructure the Himachal government has sought international funding for it’s ‘Special…
Muck generated by construction of the 24 MW capacity Kanchan Janga hydro power project in Manali valley by being dumped along a Beas River tributary has disrupted its natural course and is posing a threat to downstream habitations and farmlands.
In a hard hitting editorial, The New York Times has held an unholy nexus between corrupt official’s and sand miners responsible for the tragedy in Beas River, where the life of 24 budding engineers was snuffed out by what was a man made accident.