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By: Meetanjali Sood Alone we can do little, together we can do so much The recent HRTC Volvo bus and car accident in Chandigarh in which three students were burnt alive and NRI couple died has once again raised a question...
In another reprieve to MNCs, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday, further stayed the state government order imposing a ban on potato chips and candies packaged in polythene. A division bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Rajeev Sharma...
HimVani Students from Government College, Dharamshala college took out a rally, protesting the increasing crimes against women in the country. Large contingent of students were seen carrying candle lights and placards in a protest rally which culminated at the War...
Umang Foundation, a public welfare trust, launched ‘Thalassemia Free Himachal’ campaign to mark International Thalassemia Day and urged the government to extend all benefits to Thalassemic persons that are given to the persons with disability. A blood donation camp...
HimVani Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal's statement two days ago that his government was working for the uplift of Dalits in a manner better than Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati (no comment on the latter’s seriousness on...
By: Mahesh Chander Sharma Mandi (April 14): For the last more than two months thousands of residents of five panchayats of Sundernagar block in district Mandi have been facing inconvenience as the main foot bridge connecting these panchayats with the...
By: Nesaru Tchaas Dharamsala (Apr 9): Last December, panchayat elections were held in Himachal Pradesh, promising a major change in the composition of these local political bodies. In an unprecedented decision, the Indian government announced reservation of 50% of the...
By: Satyakam Bharti So the Himachal Pradesh government continues with its flip-flop on the Karmapa issue with the state chief secretary making a formal announcement declaring that the "state government trusts him fully" a day earlier, and then the Chief...
HimVani Today Himachal entered the fifth decade of its existence as a state in its present geographic shape, and we are well aware of the distance travelled so far (7740 kms in 1971 to 33,171 kms in 2010 in terms...
By: Pinki Ramaul The Panchayat elections in Himachal Pradesh have turned the raging severe winter into the festivity of inclusive democracy. All the people across generations, caste and gender are braving the extremely low temperatures and actively participating in the...