Shimla: Thirteen Teachers from different educational institutions all over the State were conferred State Award – 2010 by Smt. Urmila Singh, Governor, Himachal Pradesh, in presence of Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister and Ishwar Dass Dhiman, Education Minister, at an impressive function organized to mark celebration of State Level Teachers’ Day at Raj Bhawan [...]
Shimla: Smt. Pratibha Patil, President of India today presented National Award to Dr Meera Singh, Principal, Laureate Public School, Shimla for the year 2009 for her outstanding contribution in the field of education. A citation and cash prize of Rs. 25,000 was presented to Dr. Meera Singh in a function organized at New Delhi today. [...]
Nahan: Ministry of Micro, small and medium enterprises has conferred national award of outstanding entrepreneurship to M/S Himachal Turpentine Products private limited Kala amb, one of the oldest unit of the state. The Director of unit Gop Kumar Maheshwari in a well attended gathering of dignitaries received the award in national capital recently at Vigyan [...]
Nahan: On the eve of teacher’s day the Shishu Vidya niketan society today honored outstanding teachers and educationists in the campus of S.V.N school in which renowned environmentalists and chief of environment society Suresh Joshi was present as a chief guest. Addressing the well attended gathering Suresh Joshi said that teachers had a significant role [...]
Nahan: The medical officer of the Rajgarh hospital has referred postmortem of the unidentified girl to IGMC Shimla, whose dead body was recovered from the khaltu village. DSP Nischit Negi said that the neck of the deceased was tightly knotted with a Duppata so on the basis of the preliminary investigation a case of murder was [...]
Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, said that the State Government would explore possibilities of inclusion of water management and conservation in curriculum of schools with a view to educate the youth about the importance of water for the sustenance of life and its optimal use with all precautions. He was presiding over the [...]
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 [...]
Bareilly, (Uttar Pradesh) (ANI): Traffic constables dragged a senior female police officer for almost two kilometers after she caught them taking bribes. The three constables, Ravindra, Manoj Kumar and Ravindra Singh, were extorting money from the truckers on National Highway (NH-24). Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Kalpana Saxena received information from a Jat Regiment soldier that [...]
Dharamsala (ANI): The Tibetans living-in-exile celebrated the 50th anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day in Himachal Pradesh”s Dharamsala city on Thursday. Over thousands of people, including Buddhist nuns and monks attended the function at the Tsuglagkhang temple in Dharamsala along with a host of other senior functionaries. Senior functionaries and local people took part in the [...]
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi launched a mass plantation drive to enhance productivity of his constituency during his three-day visit to Amethi. He evaluated a number of public welfare schemes, and came up with the idea of mass plantation and the productivity enhancement. He inaugurated the programme by planting a tree [...]
Koushambhi (Uttar Pradesh) (ANI): Erosion of low-lying areas bordering the River Yamuna and the River Ganges in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambhi District, has left many families homeless. The local administration has shifted nearly 40 affected families to a primary school. “The villages are badly affected due to floods. We have immediately shifted 40 families of affected [...]
Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister Himachal, today inaugurated a three-day long State-Level Hamir Utsav by leading the ceremonial Shobha Yatra from Shiv Mandir at Gandhi Chowk in the town to the school ground, Hamirpur. Chief Minister was accompanied by Mahender Singh, Transport Minister, Baldev Sharma, Smt. Urmil Thakur, MLAs, Rasil Singh Mankotia, Chairman, [...]
New Delhi: Uday Kumar Varma a 1976 batch IAS of the Madhya Pradesh Cadre has taken over the charge of the post of Secretary, Ministry of MSME. He has succeeded Shri Dinesh Rai, a UP Cadre IAS officer of 1974 Batch, who had superannuated on 31st August 2010. Varma holds Master Degree in Public Administration [...]
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai lama yesterday addressed the delegates of the first National General Meeting, underlining the need for unity and a robust democratic administration in exile to keep alive the hopes and aspirations of Tibetans living inside Tibet. Speaking on the closing day of the 6-day meeting, His Holiness emphasised that unity has [...]