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Shimla: Cosmos Hydro Power Limited (CHPL), an independent power producer company (IPP), signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Himachal Pradesh for implementation of the 17 MW Chanju-II hydro-electric project in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. As per the MoU signed, the project has been allotted to the IPP for 40 [...]

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Hamirpur: The NPL football tournament being played at the National Institute of technology, Hamirpur (Hiachal Pradesh) continues to bring more excitement and action, both on-field and off-field. While players have been thrilling spectators with their amazing skills, each team by now has developed a fan-following leading to an electrifying atmosphere while the ball in on [...]

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Shimla: Overflowing buses, jostling passengers, fighting bus drivers and exhausted traffic policemen…Shimla has it all. A nightmare for an outsider, travelling in the local buses in Shimla has become troublesome for the Shimla-ites also. What needs to be done is a revamp in the way the local transport of the capital of Himachal [...]

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Hamirpur: Heinous Harriers continued to stay on top of the NPL points table defeating Voracious Maniacs by 1-0 in the seventh league match played at National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh. Vishal Srivastav scored the solitary goal for Heinous Harriers in the second half of the football match to continue their winning streak.
Both [...]

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh Voluntary Health Association of India (HP-VHAI) and American Cancer Society would launch a joint campaign for enforcement of anti-smoking law in Shimla. The advocacy plan with the government and public, beginning with schools, would take off in April with an aim to make Shimla a totally smoke free town, to be [...]

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Shimla: As the commissioner’s office in the Municipal Corporation of Himachal’s capital Shimla remained most targeted whenever the government planned to reshuffle bureaucrats in the past six months, the developmental works suffered.
During the last six months the commissioner’s office was subject to transfer, five times. After Shekhar Gupta was transferred in mid 2007, Devesh Kumar [...]

by: Hema D
The Himachal Pradesh government has floated request for proposal for setting up 3361 Common Service Centers (CSC) called ‘Gram Sugams’ in all Panchayats of the state. The Gram Sugams are proposed to be set up in public private partnership as an extension of the district level e-governance projects. Successful implementation of the [...]

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Shimla: Even as the Congress today woke from its two month long snooze after the assemly elections in Himachal Pradesh to threaten against a mass revolt over hike in bus fares, it had little of the sort to say in context of the teachers’ recruitment through Parent Teachers Association (PTA) done during its regime that [...]

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Dharamsala: Following the ‘long march’ to Lhasa planned by the exiled Tibetans during the Olympics, now Tibetan here have planned to hold their own Olympics at Dharamsala from May 15 to 25.As a precursor, a worldwide Tibetan Olympics torch relay is being held, which started in Delhi last January. It is scheduled to pass through [...]

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Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today that his government was considering reconstitution and strengthening of the State Animal Welfare Board, implementation of the Animal Cruelty Act and exploring the possibilities of linking the enumeration and registration programme of domestic animals with the National Rural Employment Guarantee Assurance Scheme.
Presiding over the state level [...]