If we believe rumors, senior Congress leader GS Bali has decided to resign from the Virbhadra Singh government. It’s learned that GS Bali is unhappy with his portfolios. It’s learned that Bali has submitted his resignation to Congress leaders Ahmad Patel and the state’s party in-charge Birender Chaudhary for consideration and forwarding to Congress president [...]
For coordination on expenditure monitoring with Election Commission of India, training expenditure related personnel, political party functionaries and coordination with District Election Officers besides other enforcement agencies in connection with ensuing bye-elections to Mandi Parliamentary Constituency, election commission has set up Expenditure Monitoring Cell in the office of Chief Electoral Officer. Chief Electoral Officer Narender [...]
Six students from The Lawrence School, Sanawar, have successfully scaled the world’s highest peak, the Mount Everest (8,848 metres), on Tuesday. These students have set a new record of being the youngest team to scale the Everest. The team members were Privthvi Chahal, Ajay Sohal, Raghav Joneja, Shubham Kaushik, Fateh Brar and Guribadat Singh. However, [...]
Local administration has ordered inquiry against the Verma Construction Company ‘construction company of Chopal legislature’, into the allegation of illegal falling of two trees near HP secretariat. Shimla municipal commissioner will oversee the investigation. Investigation team which had found two stumps buried under the muck again investigated the spot on Tuesday in order to find [...]
Himachal Pradesh Government has expanded H.P State Pollution Control Board and nominated seven Non-Official Members, Deepak Sood, Rampur, Shimla, Munish Sharma, Kullu, Shiv Kumar Saini, Una, Krishna Mahajan, Nurpur, Kangra, Ishwar Dass Chuwaru, Chirgaon, Shimla, Arvind Gupta, Solan and Prem Kaushal, Bhota, Hamirpur of Board. These appointments would be for a period of three years.
Hills of Himachal Pradesh continued to experience hot weather with temperatures in some parts of the state touching 44 degrees Celsius and hill queen Shimla also recorded 30.1 degrees Celsius temperature, which is seven degree above normal. MeT department said that most of the Himachal’s towns recorded a maximum temperature of three to seven above [...]
Election Commission of India has declared Bye-Election for Mandi Parliamentary Constituency on 23rd June, 2013. Chief Electoral Officer Narender Chauhan said that with the announcement of the by-poll the Model Code of Conduct had come into force in the districts of Chamba, Lahaul-Spiti, Kullu, Mandi, Shimla and Kinnaur. He said that as per the schedule, [...]
A real estate project, close to Himachal Pradesh state secretariat, has come under the scanner with Shimla Municipal Corporation as it found to have felled two trees without taking prior permission from concerned authority. It’s learned that this project is being executed by a HP legislature. The housing project came under the scanner for green [...]
In an unfortunate incident, four drunken youth have killed Kailash Thakur (30) over a minor altercation on the Solan bypass, near new Bus stand. All these four youth were students of a reputed private institute. These four youth have been identified as Gaurav Singh from Arki, Ajay Sharma from Bilaspur, Chandan Soni from Dharamsala and [...]
The Rohtang Pass, which is still wrapped in a thick blanket of snow, is to reopen for the tourists from 22nd May. Rohtang Pass, the gateway to Lahaul Valley, was cleared of winter snows on April 25th but only the locals and government functionaries were allowed to cross the pass. However, the ban on travelling [...]
Sachin Tendulkar with Anurag Thakur at Dharamshala
Govt to spend 2291-cr on roads, important roads like IGMC hopeful for fresh lease of life
Pratibha Singh taking stroll at the Mall Road
Shimla Police installs Traffic Mirrors on Blind curves
Cultural activity at Gaiety Theater
Himachal CM takes royal dip at Maha Kumbh