Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, has requested the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways,  Kamal Nath, to intervene to give land compensation for the land acquired by Border Roads Organisation for construction of Sansari Nallah-Killar-Thirot road during 1982-83 in village Madgram in Udaipur Sub-Division of Lahaul and Spiti District. In a request made to [...]

Shimla: Hotel Holiday Home and Goofa-Ashiana, two units of Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation in Shimla have joined the Elite Group of Global ISO Certified Hotels since both the Units have been awarded the Certificates of Registration-Quality Management System-ISO 9001 2008 by the BSI Management Systems (United Kingdom) and the certificates were presented by the [...]

New Delhi: Local health authorities are undertaking extensive mosquito control measures which include source reduction, anti-larval measures using temephos etc. and fogging. Sufficient stock of these items is available. Railways have started fogging along the railways track. The joint close monitoring by MCD, NVBDCP, NCDC and NIMR in and around CWG stadia has shown drastic [...]

New Delhi: Government of India have been having discussions with RIM, Canada over the last few weeks on the issue of lawful access by the law enforcement agencies to the communications passing through RIM systems. RIM have made certain proposals for lawful access by law enforcement agencies and these would be operationalized immediately. The feasibility [...]

Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, announced a new State Youth Award Scheme from current financial year onwards to the Youth Clubs and Individual Youth in recognition to their outstanding performance in mass awakening in environment protection, disaster management, family planning, AIDS Control, organic farming, dairy farming, floriculture, water conservation and prohibition. He was [...]

Shimla: Dr. Rajiv Bindal, Health and Family Welfare Minister has urged the Central Government for according its permission to start post-graduate level course in Mental Health at IGMC, Shimla. Dr. Bindal was speaking in a 11th Central Council Conference of Health and Family Welfare Department at New Delhi today. He said that all codal formalities [...]

Shimla: Himachal Government would explore possibilities of constituting Himachal Pradesh Sports Authority under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister to oversee sports promotion activities in the State by involving maximum number of youth in such activities down to village-level. This was disclosed by Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, in the State Sports Council Meeting held [...]

New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will be conducting the Combined Defence Services Examination (II), 2010 at 232 venues located in 41 Centers throughout the country on 19.09.2010 (Sunday). Admission Certificates to the candidates have been dispatched. Letters of rejection to the candidates stating reason(s) for rejection have also been issued. If any [...]

New Delhi: Farooq Abdullah, Minister of New and Renewable Energy has recommend the release of an amount of Rs 50 lakhs from his MPLAD fund for the relief work in Leh region of Jammu and Kashmir in view of the cloudburst ( which is the maximum amount permissible to be given out from the MPLAD [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Cabinet in its Meeting held here today decided to introduce skill upgradation programmes aimed at specific training to unskilled and skilled manpower in the specialized fields of Agro Based Industry, Light Engineering, Hydro-Electric, Hospitality, Construction, Pharma Sectors and any other need based sectors initially in selected 17 Industrial Training Institutes of the [...]

Aligarh: Prof. Saud Alam Qasmi, Dean, Faculty of Theology and renowned Islamic Scholar while addressing a seminar on “Relevance of Quran in Contemporary Times” organized by the Law Society of Faculty of Law, said that the Holy Quran is relevant for every community, region and era. The most convincing proof of this fact, he said, [...]

New Delhi (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday appealed to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders not to make things worse, but rather join hands with the Government to make the 2010 Commonwealth Games a success. “Don”t do this, otherwise Commonwealth Games will appear to collapse. I am requesting you with folded hands [...]

New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh has greeted the nation on the auspicious occasion of Raksha Bandhan. In a message the Prime Minister said Rakhi symbolizes affection and reinforces family bonds. He said “on this auspicious occasion let us make renewed efforts to ensure the dignity and well being of women and to [...]

New Delhi: The Government of Orissa has notified three Elephant Reserves namely Mayurbhanj, Mahanadi and Sambalpur. Permission for notification of South Orissa Elephant Reserve and Baitarani Elephant Reserve (which includes Keonjhar Forests) has been accorded by the Ministry in the year 2005. The State Government has yet to notify these two Elephant Reserves. Under the [...]