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 [...]
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, [...]
Nahan: Due to the negligence of the irrigation and health department (IPH), the town is facing an acute water shortage since last 15 days. Although the department is claiming to execute the work for the third scheme to meet the requirement of the town but sources says Giri water lifting scheme would at least take [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nahan: Himachal Pardesh Steel and Alloys manufacturer association has expressed concern over the hike in power tariffs in the state. In a demand charter to Industry Minister during his visit to Kalaamb last evening association said that power tariffs were increased to tune of 50 paisa per unit from 1st April which had created additional [...]
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 [...]