By: Raghav Tomar
Shimla: Overflowing buses, jostling passengers, fighting bus drivers and exhausted traffic policemen…Shimla has it all. A nightmare for an outsider, travelling in the local buses in Shimla has become troublesome for the Shimla-ites also. What needs to be done is a revamp in the way the local transport of the capital of Himachal [...]

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The bus fares in Himachal will be hiked by twenty five percent. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has today said that the proposal for increasing the bus fares will come up for the approval in the next cabinet meeting.
As per the new rates the fares in hilly areas of the state that is almost 80 [...]

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Shimla: Residents of Shimla, woke up to surprise, with white flakes of snow falling and painting the city white. However, the joy was momentary as it just snowed for about one-hour in the main city.

Scene at Kufri after Shimla received first snowfall of the season, December 10, 2007
(Pics: Lalit Kumar)
However, upper regions of Shimla [...]

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Shimla: Generally, the hospitality industry in Himachal Pradesh hikes its rates during the tourist season - winters and summers - the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC), surprisingly and unexpectedly has announced sops for tourists.
The corporation has doled out concessions on room tariffs ranging between 20 per cent and 30 per cent in all its [...]

By: Jyoti Kamal
A tribute to the frontier road builders of India
A road that puts the fear of the Lord in your hearts. Brings about mad panic attacks when you don’t know what you can possibly do to save yourself from plunging several hundred feet off an edgeless road into the abyss below. A road that [...]

By: Varun
Do you know that Barnes Court, residence of Governor of Himachal Pradesh just got 175 years old? It is here that historic Shimla Agreement was signed between Indira Gandhi and Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto. It is Barnes Court that the first meeting of the senate of the Panjab University, then at Lahore, was held [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Tourism Department in association with Western Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (WHMI) and Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP), Kullu is organising trekking expeditions on three routes from October 17 to 21.
Two treks are in Shimla district - Sarahan-Bashal Pass (11,500 feet) and Rohru-Larot-Chanshal (4220 meters) - and will be covered in four days, while [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh government has invited the Indian team and its management that won the Twenty20 World Cup to Himachal and stay for week for free in any of the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) hotels in the state.
Congratulating the Indian team, lead by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Himachal Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh said that [...]

Mountain Biking 2007 is starting from October 5th in Shimla. This event has become an annual phenomenon and it continues to grow. This year, the cycle riders will have to go through tough mountain conditions for nine days covering more than 700 km. The race ends on October 13, 2007, at Manali. Prize distribution is [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) has made record hotel bookings worth Rs 35 lakh from its Ahmedabad office during a short span of five months from April to August this year.
According to Dash Raja Taker, manager and in-charge of HPTDC marketing office at Ahmedabad, an upward trend has been registered among Gujarati tourists [...]