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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh government has decided to merge old-age homes with destitute homes for disabled kids. For the time being two old-age homes being run by the social welfare department at Tissa in Chamba and Baijnath in Kangra will be shifted to the school for disabled children in Dharamsala. Soon, all old-age homes may be [...]

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Shimla: Understanding the workforce problem of industry in Himachal, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is planning to upgrade at least 20 out of 50 industrial training institutes (ITIs) in the state. Out of these, nine will receive a grant of Rs 1.6 crore under a United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) and the remaining 11 [...]

By: Vikas Sharma
Shimla: The toiling Kashmiris, popularly knows as ‘Khans’ among locals here, are undergoing yet another transformation. Forced to leave their homeland by the terror of the gun nearly two decades back, these hardworking Kashmiri have been working as porters at various hill towns across Himachal, including Shimla, but are now graduating to better [...]

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh Forest Department is working out a multi-pronged strategy to control monkey population in the state. Overruling protest expressed by some Hindu hardliner organisations, the department will go ahead with sterilization and scientific culling of monkeys. On the other hand, the department has also prepared an ambitious project to plant at least [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has become the first north Indian state to get ISO-9001:2000 certification for issuance of driving licenses and registration certificates for vehicles. A government spokesman on Sunday said it has been made possible to issue driving licenses and registration certificates within three working days after submission of complete application forms on first come [...]

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Manali: Tourists travelling to Delhi from Manali, yesterday, had to face problems because of a non-functional air-conditioner of a Himachal Tourism Corporation owned Sleeper bus (RJ14PA0607), according to a report in Hindi daily, Dainik Jagran.
Tourists, according to the report, asked the driver to stop the bus, only after a few kilometres moving out of Manali [...]

By: Tenzin Tsundue
‘I am more of an Indian.
Except for my chinky Tibetan face’
Ask me where I’m from and I won’t have an answer. I feel I never really belonged anywhere, never really had a home. I was born in Manali, but my parents live in Karnataka. Finishing my schooling in two different schools in Himachal [...]

By: Shashi Kant
God has made man in His own image and likeness. Try to fathom this mystery. He has made an expression of self. We have in our society husband, wife, father, mother and child relation – so that we may know that we have to look forward for similar relationship with God. Failing in [...]

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New Delhi: The Union ministry of forest and environment has suggested demolition of the hotel building coming up in McLeodganj at the place where a bus stand was to be built. This was conveyed to the Central Empower Committee by the ministry through a report on Tuesday, in which it mentioned that the land was [...]

By: Akhil Puri
As I step out of the bus at Victory Tunnel (The place you get down as you enter Shimla), right there were the Sirmauri & Kashmiri porters. I wasn’t able to see them running after the bus I was travelling in as it was a local bus. Some yards ahead, I could see [...]