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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh high court on Wednesday cleared the decks for the $ 300 million Himalayan Ski Village (HSV) project disposing off a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by some environmentalists.
The project was under controversy ever since it was proposed and created by the previous Congress government. While residents had claimed that it would [...]

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Chandigarh: With the Chandigarh administration shifting the Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT) to Sector 43, all buses going to Shimla Solan, Nahan, etc, too would be available from the new bus stand. Buses plying towards and from Dharamsala, Hamirpur, Bilaspur, Manali, etc, were already shifted to Sector 45 bus stand earlier.

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Shimla: The state government in Himachal Pradesh is set to renew its efforts to play a major role in power production in the state with the Asian Development Bank sanctioning a loan Rs 3,200 crore for the execution of three major power projects.
While it has been the government’s long cherished dream to have more [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh University’s executive council (EC) on Saturday decided to fill at least 157 posts of teachers and nearly 300 posts of non-teaching employees. Digging into the decisions of the previous government, the EC also formed a review committee to reopen the case of teachers appointed during the previous BJP regime, who were terminated [...]

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Shimla: The Congress party on Saturday discussed four names for the forthcoming Hamirpur Parliamentary bypoll including those of former MLA OP Rattan, Tara Chand Chaudhary, Ranjit Singh Verma and MPS. Rana and forwarded the list to the party’s center election committee headed by UPA president Sonia Gandhi, who would take the final decision.
As of now, [...]

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Shimla: Bringing alive fears of the fire that reduced to ashes almost the whole of Malana village some time back, on Saturday seven houses were burnt in a fire in Pujarli village of Rohru. Luckily, no loss of life was reported, but the affected families lost all their belongings. The Rohru police said the fire [...]

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MDLR Airlines trial run at the Kullu airport in Bhuntar proved a disaster as its four-jet engine aircraft’s rear wheels bursted soon after it touched the ground. No loss of life was reporteda s the plane was not carrying any passengers and the crew too escaped unrurt, as the plane came to a screatching [...]

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Shimla: Gearing up to maintain law and order in the tourist town, the Shimla police will carry out extensive night patrolling, and to insure that the cops do not show slackness in duty senior district officers inclosing the SP, ASP and DSPs too would carry out surprise checks. They will undertake regular night patrolling and [...]

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Himachal Pradesh government today transfered one IPS officer and five officers of Himachal Pradesh Police Services (HPPS). ADC to Governor of Himachal Pradesh Sonal Mohan Agnihotri (IPS) has been posted as Additional Superintendent of Police Shimla. Sandeep Bhardwaj (HPPS) DSP at Police Head Quarter would now be ADC to the Governor.
Arvind Digvijay Negi DSP [...]

By Satyakam Bharti
The state BJP’s decision to field Anurag Thakur, elder son of Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, as the party candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha bypoll was no big surprise for those following politics in the state. As reported by media, even though the Chief Minister appeared to be reluctant to introduce him [...]