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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh government officials today World Bank officials to discuss a developmental loan that the state has been trying to secure for restructuring it debt burden. Additional chief secretary Parminder Mathur presided over the meeting.
The World Bank team is here to negotiate a loan for supporting reforms in areas like fiscal sustainability, development of [...]

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Shimla: Eighty-seven parliamentarians from across eight SAARC countries would participate in the ‘South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) Parliamentary Forum-II’, a first ever such meeting in India to be organised here in Shimla, Himachal Prades, from June 2.
The inaugural address would be delivered by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, and the closing speech [...]

The campaign has been closed because of death of Rita 
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Shimla: The Himachal Chapter of Society for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies (SDRS) has appealed for an O+ve (O positive) kidney donor for a 25-year old poor woman, Rita, a resident of Krishna Nagar, Shimla.
Daughter of Dev Raj, a retired sweeper, Rita is suffering from kidney failure [...]

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Shimla: While monsoon rains hit Kerala cost a day earlier than expected on Sunday, Himachal Pradesh has been witnessing showers for the last one week, a complete departure from the normal May weather. While the met department attributes the change in weather to western disturbances, the unexpected rains and hailstorms have caused considerable damage to [...]

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Shimla: Overseas Indians can now forward all their queries in relation to investments in India to the Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC), launched by the Ministry of Overseas Indians Affairs (MOIA) in association with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). A website for the purpose - www.oifc.in was also launched on the occasion, in [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has requested the central government to allocate its share of 632.4 MW power directly to other states to meet power shortage during the summer season.
Speaking at the chief ministers’ conference on power sector in New Delhi, Himachal Pradesh Power Minister, Vidya Stokes, said the Union Ministry of Power had sanctioned Rs 322.78 [...]

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Palampur: Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, now Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya will be entering the market with its own produced and manufactured tea. Dr DS Rathore, Vice-chancellor, inaugurated a tea processing unit worth Rs 60 lakh in the Department of Tea Husbandry in the university, last week.
Around 50,000 kg worth Rs 60 [...]

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With not even a year left for the state assembly elections, Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has some food for thought now especially after the Shimla MC elections. While it has won the elections here, what was surprising and must be baffling for Mr Singh is that the Congress was beaten up in his own [...]

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Shimla: Congress has won 15 of the 25 seats in the Shimla Municipal Corporation elections that went to polls on May 23. While, early in the day, it seemed that BJP would be able to topple the Congress apple cart, Congress bounced back in the second round of votes counting. BJP was able to get [...]

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Shimla: After the second round of vote counting of the Shimla municipal corporation elections, Congress has been able to pull up its performance taking its win total to 13. Results for two of the 25 seats are still awaited and Congress was leading on them when reports last came in.
Sanjay Ranta of Congress from the [...]