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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh government and Shimla Municipal Corporation are thinking big these days to preserve the heritage of the erstwhile summer capital of India. Right from conservation of heritage buildings to construction of parking lots – they are working hard to get it done on loans from the Asian Development Bank. While the bank [...]

By: Eesha Duggal
I keep wondering how do horses (any animal) feel when we humans sit on them. Do they like it or they feel irritated? How would I feel, if someone sits on my back? But I think I still have to wonder, till the time I don’t learn to communicate with them.

As the sun [...]

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh government has finally adopted the ‘Himachal Pradesh Home Stay Scheme-2008’ with a view to involve the entire state in tourism promotion activities. The scheme was specially designed to give boost to rural tourism by offering various incentives to the prospective entrepreneurs which include, no charges by Town and Country Planning Department [...]

By: Eesha Duggal
Shimla is indeed not just about the Mall Road, the Ridge, Kufri, etc. Away from the concrete jungles of the city are some beautiful places that can certainly take your breath away. It’s not just about the places, but particularly about the boulevards, the alleys where only a few feet tread through. So [...]

By: Shikha Patial
Shimla has always been Bollywood’s one of its favourite places for its picturesque sights. Many love songs have been shot amidst the beautiful pine trees of places like Naldehra, Chail and, Mashobra. More so, the place has been famous for its British touch. There are many buildings from the British era that are [...]

By: Surekha Dhaleta
Himachal Pradesh, as is given the sobriquet - Devbhoomi - the Land of Gods, has its nook and corner brimming with temples. A unique feature which one can observe all over the state is that people aligned to certain deities, symbolically express their devotion in calligraphy, in respect of their deity. For example, [...]

By: Shikha Patial
NDTV is presenting “India’s Seven wonders” entries are open for every state of the country to send their nominations if they think that their state has got one of the India’s Seven wonders.

So, does Himachal have one of the India’s seven wonders? This is the question to which every Himachali must ponder upon [...]

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: In its desperation to attract more tourists to the state, the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) has now though of what it believes is a ‘new idea’, of ‘familiarity tours’ for travel agents and travel writers.
During the recently concluded business development meetings at Mumbai and Delhi, Commissioner cum managing director, HPTDC, Ram Subhag [...]

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Shimla: Taking a small but very significant step in making Himachal Pradesh more accessible to tourists, the state tourism department has finally decided to have a call centre to provide free tourist information to visitors. Stating this, commissioner, tourism, and managing director of Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation, Ram Subhagh Singh, while addressing private tour [...]