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NEW DELHI: Popular Himachal fruit wines like Apple wine, Plum wine and Pear wine will be star attractions for foreign tourists at the New Year eve parties in Goa this year, C R B Lalit, managing director, HPMC (Himachal Pradesh Horticulture Produce Processing and Marketing Corporation) informed here.

By: RAJESH KANWAR
SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh on Wednesday launched the online electricity bill payment facility in Shimla. To begin with, the service would be provided to 37,000 consumers of Ridge, Sanjauli, Boileauganj, Chhota Shimla and Idgah City Electrical Sub Divisions of Shimla town.

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DHARAMSHALA: Michael James, a 23-year-old British national, was found dead near the St John’s church in McLeodganj, on Tuesday. Dharamsala ASP Santosh Patial said preliminary investigations indicated that James was murdered. The postmortem report also suggested that he had died due to multiple injuries on his body. The British embassy in New Delhi has [...]

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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 be mentioned that a sudden rush of industrial units had led to unplanned development of the [...]

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SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh has decided to provide three percent reservation to ‘Self Help Groups of Women Entrepreneurs’ in allotments of shops and stalls in the municipally areas of the state to facilitate the women entrepreneurs in starting their self employment ventures.
Other decisions:

By: ANUPAMA V CHANDRA

One of the new environment friendly houses
Tucked away in the Salogra village of Himachal Pradesh is Barad Basti with a population of 492. Located in the picturesque district of Solan, the Basti is not just another spot of natural beauty in Himachal Pradesh. As you reach here you can’t help [...]

By: VARUN RATTAN SINGH
It was yesterday that my mother told me that it was raining heavily in Dharamshala. The Dhauladhar range was covered with snow and cold wind was sweeping the whole of northern India including Himachal. My thoughts immediately went back to the good old days when the whole family would be sitting around [...]

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SHIMLA: In What could prove to be a path breaking development in meeting drinking water need of the state, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday said that the state government was exploring the possibilities of drawing water from Gobind Sagar, Pong Dam, Pandoh Dam and other such hydro power dams for feeding drinking [...]

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NEW DELHI: Himachal Pradesh has set a target to seek investment of Rs 50,000 crore under the central industrial package till 2010. This was statd by  Kuldeep Kumar, industries minister, during the Himachal Day function at the India International Trade Fair 2006.

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SHIMLA: The State Election Commission, Himachal Pradesh, is carrying out intensive revision of electoral rolls for the preparation of photo electoral rolls to be used during Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections.