New Delhi: Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, has called upon the states for support and partnership for bringing in educational reforms in the country. He was speaking during the inaugural session of the Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE) Meeting here today. The Minister underlined expansion, inclusion and excellence as the [...]

New Delhi: The Annual Plan outlay for Uttarakhand for the year 2009- was finalized at a meeting, here today, between the Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Uttaranchal Ramesh Pokhriyal. The Annual Plan size was agreed at Rs.5574.70 crores. This includes additional Central assistance of Rs.400 crores for infrastructure [...]

Nahan: As many as two persons were killed while one was serious injured when a Maruti alto car (HP-17A-8608) collided with a tree near johron village on national highway-72 (Nahan-Paonta sahib). The deceased were identified as Manoj Kumar (30 years) of sainwala village and Nirnajna Singh (41 years) of bayala village in dhartidhar. However serious [...]

Shimla: To generate interest about democracy amongst school students and youth in the State, ‘Yuva Sansad’ would be constituted at District, Sub Division and Block levels. J.P. Nadda, Forest and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Himachal Pradesh said this while speaking at a conference of Parliamentary Affairs Ministers at New Delhi today. He said that youth would [...]

Shimla: The 11th ‘Raid-De-Himalaya’ would be flagged from Shimla on 5th October, 2009 covering rugged and treacherous terrain of about 3000 kms and passing through world famous passes to conclude at Leh on 12th October,2009.
This was disclosed by an official spokesman of the department of Youth Services and Sports here today.
He said that the ‘Raid-De-Himalaya’ [...]

Shimla:  Trilok Kapoor, Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Wool Federation told that the State Government had got approval of a special scheme of Rs. 10 crore from the Centre to strengthen the sheep rearing profession under which basic facilities would be provided to sheep rearers. Trilok Kapoor was presiding over a joint meeting to sort out the [...]

Shimla: Mr. Ramesh Dhawala, Food and Civil Supplies Minister said that the Himachal Government was alive to the interests of the consumers and it would take effective steps to control the price rise. While presiding over a meeting of senior officers of Food and Civil Supplies Department here today, Dhawala directed the officers to keep [...]

New Delhi: Doordarshan , as the true public broadcaster, has been making available good, wholesome programmes to almost 99.7% of the country’s population. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Ms Ambika Soni said this while inaugurating the two day festival of films of art historian Benoy Behl at New Delhi today.
The Minister noted that since [...]

New Delhi: The 2009 edition of the Indian Maritime Doctrine was released here today, by the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sureesh Mehta. This capstone document was initially published in 2004 to provide a common understanding of universally applicable maritime concepts, not only for the uniformed fraternity but also for the public at large. This [...]

Nahan: State level shooting championship of the Himachal Police begun today at shooting range Judda Ka Johar about 3 kms away from here. Deputy Commissioner Mr. Padam Singh Chauhan inaugurated the championship in the presence of the superintendent of police Mr. J.P. Singh. On the first day Yudvir Singh of the southern range attained the [...]

Nahan: World Sikh foundation has decided to open a Sikh university of international standards at Paonta sahib in Himachal. For the purpose the foundation have constituted a committee for identifying the land. Interacting with media persons at Paonta sahib today the chairman of the foundation Prof Jaswant Singh Mann said that GURU GOVIND SINGH JI [...]

New Delhi: India and USA are working on a Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA), which would lead to mutual acceptance of aeronautical products/parts developed in either country. Since aeronautical products are now being designed and manufactured in India, a need was felt for international acceptance of such products.
The steps involved in BASA process include:

Skill upgradation of Indian DGCA certification experts by providing [...]

Harsh V. Gangrade writes: Nutrition is an input to and foundation for health and development. Interaction of infection and malnutrition is well documented. Better nutrition means stronger immune systems, less illness and better health for people of all ages. Healthy children learn better. Healthy people are stronger, are more productive and more able to create [...]

New Delhi: The government of India signed agreements with World Bank for three projects, namely ‘Chiller energy efficiency project’, ‘National agricultural innovation project (Additional Financing)’ and ‘Uttarakhand decentralized watershed management project (Additional Financing)’ in New Delhi.
The total cost of the Chiller Energy Efficiency Project is US $ 83.27 million out of which Global Environment Facility [...]