By: Shikha Patial
Shimla: There’s something amazingly special about Saturdays on the Shimla Mall Road. The century old Mall Road buzzes extraordinarily on Saturdays with the ensemble of city’s entire young crowd. It wasn’t always the same; Saturdays were no different from any other day, but gradually in the past few years every Saturday on the [...]

Ramika Thakur
Shimla: The BJP observed a countrywide bandh on May 2 in protest against the failure of UPA Government in controlling prices, which had a widespareda impact in Himachal too. It is well known to all of us that price rise in the country is at its peak and everybody is sweating due to this. [...]

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Shimla: Three persons died and two other were injured when the car in which they were traveling plunged into a gorge near Nako in Kinnaur district. The deceased belonging to a family from Maling and were identified as Kangudhy Rigzin, wife Rigzin Chhoden and daughter Yangmo. One child who seriously injured and was admitted to [...]

By: Vividhaditya
In my recent trip to Himachal, I was surprised to find the craze amongst people for the current IPL; even in the remotest of the villages. Further, I was surprised to find the fan following for and backing for Kings XI Punjab. Though I live in Delhi, but through out the series, I haven’t [...]

First-time MLA from Ghumarwin, Rajesh Dharmani talks about his dreams and vision for a better Himachal

Questions regarding the social life of human beings and the inequalities that exist in our society have troubled me since my schooldays. As a result, at a fairly young age I had decided to serve the society in whatever way [...]

By: Vividhaditya
On April 22, the Himachal government banned spitting and littering on the Mall Road, Shimla. A whistle-blower brigade of school students was set-up to embarrass the defaulters by the Science and Technology department and state Pollution Control Board. I wish the government had let the children study and asked its own employees to do [...]

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to constitute yet another sub-committee to listen to the problems and demands of the Pong Dam oustees. Revenue Minister Gulab Singh Thakur said that the demands compiled as such would be taken up for redressal with Rajasthan where the oustees were allotted land for rehabilitation.
Gulab Singh was presiding [...]

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Shimla: Giving a setback to the Himachal Pradesh gobernment’s efforts to attract foreign companies to invest in power projects in the state, the Himachal Pradesh High Court today asked the government to withhold the signing of pre-implementation agreement (PIA) for two mega projects handed out to Netherlands-based company Brakel Corporation till May 14.
Brakel was allotted [...]

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Solan: If class struggle of the kind championed by politically oriented trade unions and farmer unions has defined the nature and course of struggle against land acquisition in different parts of India, then here in Himachal it is the alleged hegemony of industries that is setting the agenda. Dying for an industrial revolution to join [...]

By: Vividhaditya
Let me confess it. I’m a pucca Congressi. But I’d no qualms in accepting that one good thing BJP did in its last regime were the roads. Even being a pucca Congressi, I’d lambasted the ousted Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh, for neglecting the road to his constituency (Shimla-Rohru) and making trips by air. It’s [...]