Himachal labour bureau to announce job openings on SMS
byShimla: Deploying technology to announce jobs on offer for the unemployed, the Himachal Pradesh employment department intends to use a SMS service over mobile…
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J&K headed for simultaneous parliamentary-assembly polls?
bySrinagar: Although elections to the Jammu and Kashmir assembly are only due towards the end of 2014, the state’s ruling coalition and the main opposition…
Himachal on monkey business, literally!
byShimla: The Himachal Pradesh government is on monkey business, literally! The wildlife wing will chase marauding monkeys in the streets – not to shoo them…
Nothing healthy about Punjab’s health department
byChandigarh: Punjab’s health department could do with some urgent resuscitation itself, what with having acquired the reputation of being in the news for the wrong…
Himachal bans river rafting in Kullu
byKullu: The Himachal Pradesh government today imposed a ban on river rafting here due to the sudden increase in water level in the Beas river,…
Punjabi singer booked for rape
byChandigarh: Police in Punjab’s Ludhiana today booked Punjabi singer Nachhatar Gill following a complaint by an aspiring model that he and his accomplices had raped…
After scaling Everest, Haryana twins to try more peaks
byNew Delhi: Twin sisters from Haryana, Tashi Malik and Naungshi Malik, who recently scaled the highest peak in the world, Mt. Everest, now aim to…
Private universities in Himachal face admission dilemma
byShimla: With more seats on offer than the number of students available and to top it picking out meritorious ones from those who have…
Ladakh film fest to focus on women, Aparna Sen to head jury
byNew Delhi: The second edition of the Ladakh International Film Festival (LIFF), to be held July 5-7, will have its focus on ‘Celebrating Womanhood’…
Choppers to Kedarntah shrine disturbing wildlife : Valley Residents
byDehradun : Even as the residents of the villages in and around the Kedarnath shrine one of the holiest Hindu temples at a height of…