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Shimla: The industry department in Himachal Pradesh has started conducting initial surveys for exploring the possibilities of setting up a cement plant in Sunni area of Shimla district. Sources in the department revealed that a multinational company has shown interest in starting a cement plant here and has even submitted and application to the government.
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Shimla: Keeping in mind the agrarian set up of the state, the Himachal Pradesh government might do away with the idea of having Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the state. While talking to media persons at the Shimla Press Club, here today, state Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh said that the presently sanctioned SEZs in Una, [...]

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Delhi: Himachal Pradesh government today inked an agreement with the World Bank for the Rs 1365-crore Himachal Pradesh State Road Project, which would be one of the largest externally funded developmental projects ever carried out in state. The agreement was signed between representatives of World Bank, government of India and Himachal Pradesh government in presence [...]

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Karnal: The first scientific dairy farming training programme organised for 30 members of different dairy cooperative societies from Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh concluded here at the Dairy Training Centre (DTC) on Saturday. The State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Ltd, Shimla, is sponsoring the series of five training programmes to be organised in the area [...]

By: Subhash Mendhapurkar
The problem with Himachal is that they have caught up in the fancy of e-governance without creating human infrastructure to handle this - too much literacy without education is the reason, I feel.
Let me give you brief of my talk with a Patwari last evening. The Patwari informed me that he got a [...]

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Shimla: If organic products are the latest fascination for city residents, Himachal has gone a step ahead to offer a ‘naturally pahari’ experience. The first such outlet, named Naturally Pahari, became functional in December last year and has been doing great business. Situated on the prime tourist gateway, the Chandigarh-Kasauli-Shimla highway, which makes it well [...]

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Shimla: Understanding the workforce problem of industry in Himachal, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is planning to upgrade at least 20 out of 50 industrial training institutes (ITIs) in the state. Out of these, nine will receive a grant of Rs 1.6 crore under a United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) and the remaining 11 [...]

By: Vikas Sharma
Shimla: There’s some good news for farmers who bore the brunt of development by losing land to the government, as the Union government has proposed to come up with a law to ‘rehabilitate before displacement’, according to Union Rural Development Minister, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.
Singh was speaking to the press, here today, after presiding [...]

By: Shruti Dube

Rs 2,500 crore were being sought from the World Bank for widening and upkeep of roads in the state, Chief Minsiter Virbhadra Singh had said in Rohru on April 15, Himachal Day, this year. And about Rs 2,000 crore were spent last year on such activities. But do I see that?
Of late I [...]

By: Jayesh Sravan
Kullu: The Valley of Gods, it seems, is finally awakening to a harsh reality - that of being crowned the cannabis kingdom. The foreigners who went missing from here over the years may never return to narrate their romance with the intoxicating herb, but some locals for sure have decided to beware and [...]