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Shimla: Union minister of state for external affairs, Anand Sharma will inaugurate the first passport office to be opened in Himachal Pradesh at Shimla on Friday.Earlier, residents of the state had to visit Chandigarh for completing the formalities.
Union minister...
By: D D Sharma
Shimla: The state award money for the Language and Culture department has been enhanced from Rs 10,000 to Rs 51,000, state Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh announced here. The amount of State Academy Awards has also been...
By: Riva Bhardwaj
Chandigarh: In an effort to popularise miniature art among masses, a workshop on miniature paintings was held at Kalagram in Chandigarh recently. Around 12 painters (five from Jaipur and seven from Chamba) working in traditional style and...
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विशाल और विविधता से भरी भारतीय संस्कृति, प्रकृति के साथ मनुष्य से संबंधों के बारे में बड़ी जागरूक रही है । यह संबंध बड़ा अटूट और वैज्ञानिक आधार से परिपुष्ट रहा है । मनुष्य प्रकृति के अंदर...
Write-up and photos by: Saroj Thakur
It is human tendency to take for granted what he gets easily. Perhaps this is the way it had been for me when it came to Himachali handicrafts, but not any more. This realisation...
Photo and copyright: D D Sharma
Shivratri being celebrated in a traditional Himachali way in Kandru village (Theog Tehsil), about 64 km from Shimla on February 16. The ceremonies, which are performed at night mark the marriage of God Shiv...
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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in the country to get a GIS-based integrated water resource framework developed to help manage its water resources in a better manner. The framework, gifted by the President of India through...
Photo and copyright: Lalit Kumar
Tourists enjoy at Kufri after the hill-station about 10 km from Shimla received fresh snowfall on February 7, just enough to please the tourists. Meanwhile Shimla and other lower regions received light rain. Shimla has...
Photo and copyright: Lalit Kumar
A Himachali boy expressing his solidarity for the nation on the eve of Republic Day on the Ridge, Shimla, January 25
By: Saroj Thakur
January 25, 1971, the historic day when the hilly state Himachal got Statehood, still makes its presence felt in my memory lanes. I was in class tenth and honestly speaking had little knowledge about the status of...