By: Vividhaditya
Did you like it? Was it worth the money? Would you want to come back after ten years? OK! But what’s a Chingu? Though being a Himachali, and having spent a considerable number of years of my childhood in Himachal, I became familiar with Chingu, only during my recent trip to my village.
I had [...]

By: Eesha Duggal
How many of us know about Thallasemia?? Pretty obvious many of us visiting HimVani. But I bet if one moves around and asks people about it, many would roll eyes up and down in wonder. With an aim to spread awareness about Thallasemia amongst the people, UMANG- a foundation for children with Thallasemia [...]

By: Swarn Deepak Raina
There’s an unusual silence up here at this place hidden from the world. It’s a one-man civilization, that of a lama - Bawa Sonam Gyatso - the last of Buddhist believers living here guarding the centuries-old Bhanodi Gompa tucked on one side of the Pir Panjal mountains separating mainland Chamba from the [...]

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Shimla: In a major victory for activists involved in propagating the Right to Information Act, the Himachal Pradesh government has finally decided to reduce the fee for providing information to applicants under the Act. An official spokesperson said the fee had been reduced from Rs 10 to Rs 2 per page. No fee would be [...]

By: Satyakam Bharti
Much before successive governments woke up to the need of promoting Himachal as a tourist destination, the centuries-old prestigious schools in the state were the only goodwill ambassadors for the state. Even today a good percentage of Indian elite prefer to send their children to these schools – St Bede’s being one of [...]

By: Rakesh Kumar Sharma
It has become a common parlance these days to criticise the entire political, bureaucratic and social system. Right from the farmers in villages, the ‘coffee-house middle class’ and even the so-called elites - everyone indirectly praises himself/herself by criticizing others. We perhaps see fault everywhere except in our own domain, hence making [...]

By: Parul Sood
While India will remain to be an agrarian society for a long time to come - despite the fast pace of urbanization - the rural population still does not seem to trust policymakers, whom they accuse of being urban-centric. This view emerged at a meet held here in Shimla on the occasion of [...]

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Billing: Ajay Sharma of Kullu on Sunday heralded a new chapter in the history of paragliding sport in India by becoming the first Indian to win a task in the Himalayan Paragliding Pre-World Cup-08 here. Ajay completed the 57.4 kilometers task in the overall category on the third day of the tournament by winning 996 [...]

By: Varun
At a time the whole world is talking about the end of capitalism following the financial crisis that started in the US, the ‘good old public sector institutions’ certainly seem to be back in the reckoning. - partly because the global meltdown has made private institutions appear very risky, and maybe also because government [...]

By: Vani
Names of Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, Education Minister I.D. Dhiman, DGP G.S. Gill and ASP Shimla Mahinder Singh figure in the complaint filed, on Monday with the National Human Rights Commission on the issue of ‘merciless torture’ of the protesting PTA teachers in Himachal. The complaint has been filed by a human [...]