HIM VANI SOLAN: Sale, lease, mortgage, exchange and gift of land in Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial area has been banned by the government. The ban would be applicable to the area falling under the Nalagarh Baddi Barotiwala Industrial Development Authority. It may...
By: HEMA D SHIMLA: Kuldeep Rao brother of Senior Cabinet Minister Rangila Ram Rao has been granted bail by the Additional District and Sessions Judge D K Sharma. On November 16, the Judicial Magistrate (first class) had remanded Rao, along...
By: HIM VANI SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to provide two biswas of land to every houseless person so that adequate housing to the poor persons could be provided in the state. The government of India has earlier launched...
By: VARUN RATTAN SINGH My only link with village life was that my father was from a rural area. My experience of a village life in past 25 years of my life can be summed up to be almost negligible....
By: PARUL SOOD Shimla, Himachal Pradesh: Taking note of the cumbersome traffic problem in the capital city, NCC cadets from schools and colleges of Shimla have been involved in the task of traffic control in association with the local Traffic...
By: SUREKHA DHALETA Himachal Pradesh is relatively a small hill state, but unlike its size, it exhibits a vast heterogeneity in various aspects. For example, if we take languages into consideration, survey conducted by the Anthropological Survey of India (ASI)...
By: SHEKHAR MASTA Shimla, Himachal Pradesh: The Himachal Pradesh government has for long been struggling to find a solution to monkey menace in the state. Farmers have for long been complaining about the havoc these simians create those related to...

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By: VIKAS DOGRA He is all of 21 and making waves in music circles across the country. And for the record it's not the la-Indian Idol kind of waves, it's the applaud he is receiving from the serious most Indian...
HIM VANI In yet another incident of local residents opposing projects being set up in Himachal Pradesh, residents of Banala in Mandi have raised their voice against forestland in the village being taken over by Power Grid Corporation Of India. In...
By: SAROJ THAKUR “This is the last Pashmina shawl that I am giving to you” said my Ma, lovingly handing me a shawl whose thread she herself had spun. It was a beauty. I was suddenly choked with emotions to...