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Palampur: District level convention of International Women Day 2008 was held at SM Convention Centre, Palampur. The participants called for women's empowerment to end female feticide and fight HIV/AIDS. Chief guest Ravinder Ravi, IPH Minister, said that the government...
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Palampur: Fifty village women from 20 self-help groups associated with Samridhi Women's Cooperative Society came together at the society's Thakurdwara facility to celebrate Women's Day today. The celebration was organized by Samridhi in collaboration with Himachal AIDS Control Society....
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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh government is in the process of amending the state Panchayati Raj Act to provide 50% reservation to women. The act will be amended during the budget session starting on 4th March.
"The Panchayati Raj Act will...
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Shimla: To impress upon the government and policy makers the urgent need to address their issues, about 5,000 single women from Himachal, will undertake a three-day pad yatra (march) from Arki to Shimla, starting April 1.
This march is being...
By: Ajai SrivastavaShimla: It was the first programme of its kind in Shimla in which the problems of lepers were discussed at length and their solutions were also suggested. Dr Rajiv Bindal, Health Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Suresh Bhardwaj,...
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The severe winter in Himachal seems to be thawing and the days are getting warm and sunny. It seems the weather gods have relented to allow celebrations on February 14th. Well, today happens to...
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Shimla: The Central government has agreed to raise a new Indian Reserve Battalion for Himachal Pradesh. The battalion will create around 1,000 jobs in different categories, and a sum of Rs 12.75 crore has already been released for the...
Kanwar Dinesh Singh has published ten poetry collections in English: Reveries Incessant (1993), Implosions (1996), Asides (1996), Thinking Aloud (1999), The Theophany (1999), House Arrest (2000), Deuce: Haiku Poems (2001: in collaboration with Patricia Prime of New Zealand), The...
By: Puneet Sood
Dharamshala: An awareness Camp on Blood Donation and HIV/ AIDS was organised at ITI for Women, Dari, four kilometres away from Dharamshala, as part of the National Youth Day Celebrations.
There is no substitute for human blood and...
By: Ajai Srivastava
Shimla: Jamyang (33), a Dharamshala based Tibetan refugee monk and Director of Tong-Len Charitable Trust, has said that the excellent results of his pilot project at the slums of Charan Khudd in Dharamshala have encouraged him to...