The ongoing strike by employees of Zila Parishad has been withdrawn by the employees after getting assurance from Minister of Rural Development Anirudh Singh to concede their demands. The development came when the state government had suspended 167 striking junior engineers working in various Zila Parishads on Friday. Forty seven

Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu started ‘Punrvaas’, a rehabilitation initiative of the state government for the disaster affected families on Saturday from Kullu through direct transfer of relief packages. The CM released Rs. 3 lakh each to 324 affected families of Kullu district amounting Rs 9.72 crore as the first

The Union Minister of Information, Broadcasting, Youth and Sports Affairs Anurag Thakur said, “Meri mati mera desh is a unique programme through which brave men and women of India are being honoured by taking panch pran oath to salute them.”  Addressing the audience at Motipur in Mandi on Saturday the

Acting tough against the striking employees of Zila Parishad, the state government has suspended the services of 167 junior engineers .  Forty seven hundred employees working in different Zila Parishad of the state have launched an agitation demanding their merger with the employees working in Panchayati Raj department of the

Himachal Pradesh government would soon reduce the special road tax and other taxes levied on tourist buses, tempo travelers and commercial tourist vehicles. Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, after meeting a delegation of Shimla Hotel and Tourism Stakeholders’ Association at Shimla on Thursday said, “The state government is seriously considering

A team of the Central Water Commission visited Pandoh Dam on Wednesday to probe the circumstances in which excess water was suddenly released from the dams during monsoon fury in the state this year. It is notable the rain fury in the month of August this year had caused huge

As many as five hundred and sixty five pass outs from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi of B Tech, M Tech, MSc, MA, 10 Master of Science courses and sixty PhD,  were awarded degrees in the 11th convocation ceremony of the institute held at IIT campus on Monday. Aditya Sarkar

Him Academy Public School organized its annual day function in the school campus at Vikas Nagar (Hamirpur) on Sunday. Vaishali Sharma (HAS), an alumni of Him Academy Public School, presently  BDO Karsog, was chief guest of the function and was accorded a guard of honour by NCC wing of the

A research team of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi has made startling findings about the quality of ground water in Punjab, revealing high levels of contamination in the groundwater leading to several health hazards including risk of cancer.  The study aimed to track changes in drinking water quality in

Himachal Pradesh government’s proposal to allow construction in Green Belts of Shimla has invited ire of environmentalists and a section of residents of Shimla town. The State Cabinet on October 11 had given nod to a proposal of the state government to amend Shimla Development Plan (SDP) for allowing construction in