By: Satyakam Bharti
Floods in the Gangetic plains and Eastern India are nothing new. As if a ritual, every year rainwater presents a ‘pity’ (or pretty) picture of vast plains dotted with half-visible rooftops. Television channels and newspapers carry moving pictures of the catastrophe of national magnitude giving enough opportunity to the powers that be for [...]

By: Shoonya
The state government has dangled yet another carrot to the people and they sure would bite it. As is the wont of any populist government, the BJP government in the state is thinking loud on excluding rural areas (in the vicinity of towns) from the Town and Country Planning Act. The question however is [...]

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Shimla: In a major push to the proposed Manali-Leh rail link as proposed by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is said have given in-principle approval to the project. The project is being seen of great significance keeping in view security concerns of the country following China’s success in completing [...]

By: Satyakam Bharti
Heavens might have cried seeing filial love in the hour of the death - a tragedy it seemed very much similar to the stratified residents of Pompeii as the town was stupefied for eternity 2,000 years ago with men and women and children still in embrace. The path that led to Naina Devi [...]

By: Sanjeev Verma
Private bus service can well be called the lifeline of Shimla. But contrary to it, these buses, now-a-days, have become a problem for the commuters. It is astonishing to see private bus operators not following rules and instructions passed by the High Court of Himachal Pradesh and also the state government.
Despite clear [...]

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The Chief Minister going on air to listen to grievances from the common man is a welcome step giving people an opportunity to talk directly to the person whom they have entrusted the job of taking the state to next level of development. Though AIR Shimla has for long been involving the bureaucracy in informing [...]

By: Rahul Saxena

The Himachal Pradesh forest department is in the final stages of executing a plan to have more than 12 lakh families plant upwards of 14 lakh medicinal plants on their private lands on the 3rd of August, 2008. The state forest minister has taken a personal initiative to promote this campaign, named Ghar [...]

By: Satyakam Bharti

On Sunday the Himachal Pradesh government declared that the World Bank has in principle agreed to finance a bio-carbon project in the state, claiming it to the first in South Asia, the modalities for which would be completed by year end. A good beginning, it can be said, to realize those 1,50,000 crore [...]

By: Satyakam Bharti
A poor woman’s suicide seldom makes news, unless, of course, it is carried out in a police officer’s office. An anganwadi worker in Baijnath could not think of such a desperate measure because she had nobody in particular to blame, but just the system, and therefore there was no one to cry foul [...]

By: Eesha Duggal
I could for long feel thunder in my ears after a rock concert that was held in Shimla last Sunday night. Under Pubrock fest, Delhi based alternative rock band Cyanide performed at Ritz Complex on The Ridge. The concert started after 9 p.m. but practice was going on before that also.

Music was in [...]