Himachal Pradesh High Court has issued a notice to the Attorney General of India expressing serious concern on digging of hills and reports of poor quality of works in construction of roads and tunnels for buliding four lane highways in the state. Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed

Several organizations working for protection of  environment and ecology of Himachal Pradesh have demanded a high level inquiry headed by a former judge of HP High Court in the alleged unscientific cutting of hills and illegal dumping of muck in Beas River. Talking to media persons at Mandi today,  Guman

( Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and HP CM taking stock of damages during the recent floods ) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari took stock of the losses occurred during the recent monsoon fury in Kullu and Manali area on Tuesday. Accompanied by HP Chief Minister Sukhvinder

Ranjan Sharma, Bipin Chander Negi and Rakesh Kainthla were sworn in as the Judges of the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Monday. Himachal Pradesh Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla administered the oath of office to the newly appointed judges at Raj Bhawan Shimla. The proceedings of the oath ceremony were conducted by Chief Secretary Prabodh

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), engaged in construction of four lane projects in Himachal Pradesh, has come under the attack of environmentalists after filing of a police complaint against the NHAI  holding it responsible for losses during flash floods in the state by carrying unscientific cutting of hills

Union Surface Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari would visit Kullu –Manali on August 4, to take stock of losses to Chandigarh –Manali National Highway and other flood affected areas. Former Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, who met the Union Minister in New Delhi recently to apprised him about heavy

Type The Kulu district administration has issued an alert to people living in down stream of Malana stage 1 and stage 2 hydro power projects in view of overflowing of water from reservoir of Malana 2 power project. Deputy Commissioner Kullu said, ” It has been reported by Malana stage

Son of six times former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, Public Works Development (PWD) Minister in Himachal Pradesh government Vikramaditya Singh has warned a bureaucrat of the state government, without naming him, “Not to cross lakashman rekha.” Talking to media persons at Shimla in HP secretariat on Saturday, the minister said “I hold

Several Leftist organizations today held a protest demonstration at Seri Manch Mandi on Friday  against unabated violence continuing in North Eastern state of Manipur. The members of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), Janwadi Mahila Samiti(JMS), CITU and All India Lawyers Union raised slogans condemning the violence in Manipur and

One hundred twelve tourists including fourteen foreigners, stranded in Parvati valley of Kullu district for the past several days after the recent rains, have been rescued safely by Kullu police with the help of SDRF in Himachal Pradesh. Superintendent of Police Kullu Sakshi Verma said, “As many as one hundred