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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh University would start BEd courses in commerce and home science from the next academic year. However, no new colleges would be started for offering such courses, which means that already running colleges would be asked to accommodate the two subjects. This also means that the effective number of seats per subjects [...]

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Dharamshala: The National Book Trust of India will hold a book festival at Dharamshala from June 30, and it would continue for the next 15 days. NBT has asked Himachal Pradesh government to provide them at least 5,000 sq feet of space for the festival, thus making it the largest such event to be organised [...]

By: Vividhaditya
Dev bhoomi Himachal. That’s what Himachal is known since ages. But I don’t think Himachal Tourism (HT) ever capitalised on that. In fact I’ve been seeing advertisements in newspapers, Uttarakhand hijacking the statement, which Himachal should have long time back branded its tourism industry as. Rather than ‘Dev bhoomi Himachal’, ‘God’s own country’ a [...]

By: Gaurav Sharma
India is rocking. India is poised. Poised to eject millions of people out of poverty. Poised to become a developed, modern country. I don’t know if we can eradicate poverty in one generation or we will lose the plot and miss the bus again. But there are clearly signs all around us that [...]

By: Ajai Srivastava

Himachal Pradesh is doing quite well in education, health, horticulture and many other sectors. But unfortunately, its performance in the field of disability is very poor. Not only the topography of this hilly state but lack of sensitivity at social and governmental level is posing a big challenge before the disabled community. More [...]

By: Saroj Thakur
The Gita Press Gorakhpur’s, The Mahabharata has beautiful black & white sketches inserted in the text itself and it adds manifold to the charm of the epic. I would look at the pictures and read the text along with to get pleasure out of my reading. One particular picture that I still carry [...]

By: Karam Chand Nanta
Another winter gone by. While it did snow eventually, and loads and loads of it, I’m wondering if this late season snowfall has really helped the farmers and rivers. Because the gestation period for a snow to feed the rivers over the year is from four to six week. The late snow [...]

By: Swadesh Katoch

So finally today we are out of the Cricket World Cup. For the last 3 - 4 months, all Indian news channels were showing only cricket. They were showing people in all parts of country doing Yagnas for the the Indian cricket team’s success. Reporters were showing one-hour program on Yuvraj’s mom packing [...]

By: Rajeev Sharma
Hamirpur: Villagers in Lanacheta panchayat of Hamirpur have set a fresh example proving how affirmative action is always better than expecting others to improve your plight. Cut off from rest of the world due to road leading to the village being damaged by incessant rains, villagers, after waiting for government officials to clear [...]

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Mandi: A large number of farmers on Tuesday held a demonstration at Gohar to protest against execution of Chabiol hydle power project. Coming together under the banner of Himachal Kissan Sabha, the farmers alleged that at lease 10,000 people in 25 panchayats would be affected by the project. They said that agricultural land in the [...]