By: Juraj Sipos
Some people say that Shambala is hidden in a remote part of the Himalayas. Some call this mysterious kingdom “a house of the immortals” - Gyanganj. It is identified as Shambala, Shangri-La or Siddhashram, but this “wondrous land” has many other names too.
In Tibet, the word for a legendary and enlightened kingdom, “Shambala”, [...]

HIMALAYAN hill stations built by British colonial officers to shelter them from the fierce Indian summer and remind them of home are to be restored to their former glory by a new generation of middle-class Indians eager to savour a similar lifestyle.
Government officials in Himachal Pradesh, home to some of the most evocative Raj summer [...]

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Shimla: Taxi drivers in Shimla are on a strike, for the third consecutive day now, causing a lot of commuting problems for tourists to this hill-station.
With the summer season in its last leg, the number of tourists though has gone down, but people who are still making it to Shimla, have been caught unaware about [...]

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to increase the support price of procurement of apple, mango and citrus fruits by 50 paise, per kg, Horticulture Minister, Singhi Ram said, here.
The prices have been raised under the Market Intervention Scheme for 2007. Henceforth, the procurement price for apple would be Rs 4.75 per kg as [...]

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Shimla: The Directorate of Elementary Education, Himachal Pradesh, has invited applications from eligible school teachers for the state/national awards, Director, Elementary Education, B M Nainta, informed here.
All such teachers/headmasters/lecturers and principals of the school cadre who have put in minimum 20 years service in government schools are eligible to apply, he added.
Teachers whose names were [...]

By: Surekha Dhaleta
Shimla: To commemorate the 128th birth anniversary of Helen Keller, a function was organised here by the Blind Persons Association of Himachal, yesterday, with support rendered by Society for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies (SDRS) and Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited.
Keller overcame her handicap of visual impairment and deafness through sheer determination and became [...]

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Chamba: India’s first Cambridge University centre would come up in Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh, according to sources. The process of location and signing the pact has been finalised and the permission for starting the construction is being sought from the government.
The university would come up on a 42-acre plot, near Maihla village here and would [...]

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Shimla: The popular Walker Military Hospital in Shimla, that was gutted in fire in 1998, would be back again in operation by 2011, according to Lt Gen S Mukherjee, AVSM, Director General Medical Services.
Walker Hospital came into being in 1902, by a banker by the name of Sir James Walker. The hospital was originally to [...]

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New Delhi: A survey conducted by Hindi business channel CNBC Awaaz has adjudged Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh as the best travel destination of the country, for the year 2006-07.
The survey was done by research firm AC Nielsen on behalf of CNBC-TV18 news network.
The city was also adjudged as the “best travel destination in [...]

By: Vikas Sharma
Shimla: As many as four people were injured when a fire broke out in Middle Bazar, here, last night.
According to sources, fire broke out in one of the houses owned by the Kashmiri Khans  living in Middle Bazaar.
The reason for the fire break-out is being guessed as leakage of a gas-cylinder.
Seven fire tenders [...]