By: Akhil Puri
Himachal – The Land Of Gods, has been since its birth a place where the law prevailed, people having high values lived and showed mutual respect to each other. With our 60 years of Independence, I was not expecting all that to change, but the happenings around us certainly do tell us that [...]

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Shimla; The Department of Technical Education, Himachal Pradesh, on Friday said that applications were being invited up to September 14 from candidates who could not apply earlier for admission to various vocational courses under State Council for Vocational Training (SCVT) in various vocational training centres for the session 2007-08.
A spokesperson of the department said that [...]

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Shimla: Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today said the state health department would conduct an inquiry into the functioning of Vivekananda Institute of Medical Science and Research at Palampur. The trust is headed by former chief minister Shanta Kumar. The CM said that the government had received a letter from one of the trust’s life trustees [...]

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Shimla: Rowdy behaviour of a private bus driver with a woman passenger caused a massive traffic jam on the bus stand-Boilauganj road here. According to eyewitnesses, the driver also beat up the women when she objected to the bus being driving rashly. The private bus (HP 631321) was going from Summer Hill to Shimla at [...]

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Shimla: Answering to a question on the opening day of the Vidhan Sabha session, Himachal Pradsh forest minister Ramlal Thakur informed that forest field officers have instructed to register all eco-tourism societies in the state. He said, as per the Eco-tourism Policy-2005, the government intends to develop eco-tourism circuits in the state. He said a [...]

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Shimla: All panchayats in Himachal Pradesh will have there own buildings by the end of this year. There are 3,243 panchayats in the state, out of which 650 panchayats do not have a permanent place to operate from. Work on 420 panchayats bhawans has already been completed, while the rest would be finished by year-end. [...]

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Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh School Education Board has decided not to allow JBT students to write their examinations in English, which means that students would have to write their answer sheets in Hindi alone. Around 2,000 students are enrolled in DIET centres spread across the state, and out of these at least 20% had chosen English [...]

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Shimla:A demonstration was held outside the office of Shimla municipal corporation by CPI(M) to protest against the civic body’s failure to provide adequate drinking water to the city.Speakers at the demonstration accused the MC of not maintaining the old water supply system, not being able to influence people to undertake rainwater harvesting and making no [...]

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Kullu: Almost the whole of Spiti valley has plunged into darkness with the electricity production at the Rangtang power project coming to a halt after the water storage dam over the river was washed away by heavy rains. The dam had earlier been rebuilt after it was washed away three years back. 

The Himachal Pradesh government [...]

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Shimla: To help Himachalis build safe and environmentally sustainable houses, ACC Limited has started a project to provide free counseling to people planning to build a house. Stating this during the two-day workshop on Good Construction Practices, company officials claimed that if approached by a consumer, the company would send a technical team for spot [...]