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“Anurag got ticket on merits as a loyal, dedicated and able party worker
2008-05-07 16:43:00 Bijender Sharma writes from Jawalamukhi: The state chief Minister Mr. Prem Kumar Dhumal today categorically made it clear that the party had given the ticket to his son, Anurag Thakur, as he had worked the Party with complete loyalty and dedication so this could not be termed as nepotism. He said he was indebted to ... More About: Ticket , Dedicated
Data entry work of all villages to be completed during current financial ye
2008-05-06 17:53:00 Shimla: Data entry work of all the villages would be completed during the current financial year thereby facilitating the landholders in accessing their land ownership records. This was disclosed by Thakur Gulab Singh, Revenue Minister while presiding over the meeting held here today with Shri Prem Kumar, Principal Secretary, Revenue, Joint Secretary, Revenue and other ... More About: Financial , Work , Current , Data Entry
CITCO Hotels Hot Destination during IPL
2008-05-06 17:49:00 Chandigarh: Economic bonanza for Chandigarh through cricket leagues. Earlier there were ICL matches, which gave good business to hotels and now IPL is repeating the good flow of business to the hotels which is evident from higher occupancy of the hotels. Prestigious CITCO Hotels have become a favoured destination for cricketers. Majority of the cricketers ... More About: Destination
MoU on national health insurance scheme signed
2008-05-06 17:44:00 Mohali: The Punjab Health Systems Corporation (PHSC) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with National Insurance Company (NIC) for the implementation of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna. The scheme has been launched by the union ministry of labour and employment to provide cashless hospitalisation benefits up to Rs 30,000 to the BPL families. The ... More About: Signed , Health Insurance
Shobha Yatra organized on the eve of Parshuram Jayanti
2008-05-06 17:38:00 SR Pundir writes: On the eve of Parshuram Jayanti palanquins of lord Parshuram were brought to Renuka Ji from main ancient Parshuram temple situated in Jamu Koti village and another from the famous temple of Katahan Sheetla village of Renuka area this evening. Palanquins were received with traditional fervor at Dadahu, where hundreds of people were ... More About: Yatra
Tibetan representatives returned to India
2008-05-06 16:59:00 Bijender Sharma writes: The two envoys, Kasur Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, will give a briefing to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibetan leadership, when they reach Dharamshala on Wednesday, 7 May. The two envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama have returned to India after their discussions with their Chinese counterparts. These ...
Data entry work of all villages to be completed during current financial ye
2008-05-06 16:51:00 Shimla: Data entry work of all the villages would be completed during the current financial year thereby facilitating the landholders in accessing their land ownership records. This was disclosed by Thakur Gulab Singh, Revenue Minister while presiding over the meeting held here today with Shri Prem Kumar, Principal Secretary, Revenue, Joint Secretary, Revenue and other ... More About: Financial , Work , Current , Data Entry
Governor lays foundation stone of Atma Jagriti Yog Research Centre
2008-05-06 14:15:00 Shimla: Mr. V.S. Kokje, Governor laid the foundation stone of Atma Jagriti Yog Research Centre in the campus of Udbodhan Yog Avam Ayurveda Shodh Sansthan at Kathani in district Solan today. Speaking on the occasion, Kokje said that every human being should make efforts for progressing spiritually in the present materialistic world and should adopt higher ... More About: Foundation , Stone , Lays
Tibetans Refuse to Fly the Red flag
2008-05-06 09:35:00 Bijender Sharma writes: What could be termed as a “civil disobedience” was the monks of an ancient Tibetan Bon monastery in Minyak Drapa Ngonde township in Tawu (Ch: Daofu) county under Karze (TAP) refused to fly China’s Red flag over their monastery. The incident occurred two days ago when the local authorities forced the monastery ... More About: Flag
Himachal to carry research to identify heroes of 1857
2008-05-05 18:32:00 Shimla: State Government would carry exhaustive research to identify the heroes of 1857 Revolution, install their statues and maintain registers in memorial as a mark of respect to the great freedom fighters of Himachal Pradesh. This was revealed by Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, while delivering his inaugural address on the occasion of two-day ... More About: Heroes , Research , Carry
Fresh Photographes of The Great Khali
2008-05-05 17:58:00 Fresh and exclusive photographs of great wrestler, The Great Khali taken by Rajesh Parmar Exclusive coming up…….
Heavy increase in the number of tourists in Chandigarh
2008-05-05 16:36:00 Chandigarh: Chandigarh witnesses a whopping increase in the number of tourists visiting the city in 2007. Statistics released by the Department of Tourism UT Administration, revealed that as many as 9,54,726 of tourists visited city beautiful last year. Out of which 9,28,159 included domestic tourists while rest of 26,567 were foreigners. There has been an increase ... More About: Chandigarh , Tourists , Heavy , Number
Majithia gives credit to Badal
2008-05-05 16:05:00 Chandigarh: Punjab information and public relations minister Bikram Singh Majithia today thanked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for getting the death sentence of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh stayed indefinitely. Thanking on behalf of people and residents of Amritsar in particular, Majithia said citizens of the country would remember the role played by Badal in getting ... More About: Credit
Paonta Dental Collage suicide case: 9 sent in judicial custody
2008-05-05 14:46:00 NNL Network: Dy S. P. Paonta Mr V. S. Thakur told media persons this evening at Paonta Sahib that today, all the nine accused arrested in connection with Trishana Negi suicide case, which includes the teachers, students and employees of Himalayan Institute of Dental Sciences, Paonta. Accused remanded are Balvinder Kaur [warden of women hostel], ... More About: Suicide , Case , Judicial , Custody
Himachal seeks Anganwari centres for entire population
2008-05-05 11:31:00 New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh govt has requested the centre to sanction 138 additional Anganwari centres and 539 mini Anganwadi centres for the state to cover entire population under I C D S programme in the state. Himachal Pradesh Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Mrs Sarveen Choudhary called on union women and child development minister Mrs Renuka ... More About: Entire
China’s legal wrangle of Tibetan popular uprising: A Critique
2008-05-04 16:30:00 Bijender Sharma writes: Beginning from last month, Tibet saw mass popular uprisings in the “Tibet Autonomous Region” (”TAR”) and the Tibetan areas outside the “TAR”. The pan-Tibet political uprising is an eruption of popular resentment against the Chinese authorities’ five decades of misrule in Tibet which saw systematic gross violations of human rights in every ... More About: Legal , Popular , Critique , Uprising
Paonta dental college student suicide case takes new twist, 9 held
2008-05-04 12:45:00 S. R. PUNDIR writes - Suicide case of Trishna Negi [20] a first year student of Himalayan Institute of Dental Sciences, Paonta who ended her life by handing herself with the ceiling fan in her room in the college hostel on April 14th last month, today took a new turn with the registration of an ... More About: College , Student , Case
भारत के खाने से अमरीका भूखा
2008-05-04 11:37:00 अमरीकी राष्ट्रपति कहते है कि भारत के लोगों के खान पान बढोतरी और बहतरी होने के कारण दुनिया के कई देशों में लोग दाने दाने को मोहताज हो रहे हैं | बुश कहते है कि भारत द्वारा गेहूं और दालों के निर्यात पर रोक लगाए जाने के कारण बाकी देश ठीक से खाना नही खा ...
Tibetan media demands freedom of press with in Chinese Territory
2008-05-03 17:31:00 Bijender Sharma writes from Dharmshala: Association of Tibetan Journalists (ATJ) met here today to observe World Press Freedom Day and called on Beijing to uphold its promises of press freedom and human rights as the host of the 2008 Olympics. The journalists group also extended invitation to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency that alone acts ... More About: Media , Demands
US support for on going dialogue between china and the representatives of D
2008-05-03 17:14:00 Bijender Sharma writes from Dharamshala: US has expressed support for a meeting between the Chinese government and the representatives of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen are in China to hold informal talks with representatives of the Chinese leadership. “In terms of our views on ... More About: Support , Dialogue
Shimla Road Users and Pedestrians Act, 2007 enforced
2008-05-03 14:51:00 Shimla: An official spokesman revealed that The Shimla Road Users and Pedestrians (Public Safety and Convenience) Act, 2007 had come into force on 26-02-2008 and the Home Department of Himachal Pradesh seeks cooperation from all the residents of Shimla Town to implement this Act in letter and sprit. He said that the Act is aimed ... More About: Shimla
Two lineman electrocuted in Dadahu, one serious
2008-05-03 14:23:00 S. R. PUNDIR writes: Big hassle, noise and running of a number of residents attracted large number of tourists and other local residents to the spot in Dadahu [Renuka ji] yesterday after noon where Sher Bahadur, Assistant lineman of HPSEB had fallen from an electric pole. Eye witnesses told this correspondent that Sher Bahadur was ...
Three Observers appointed in Hamirpur P.C. by ECI
2008-05-03 12:09:00 Shimla: Election Commission of India has appointed three observers for Bye-elections of Hamirpur Parliamentary Constituency of Himachal Pradesh to deliver free, fair and transparent election effectively. This was disclosed by Smt. Manisha Nanda, Chief Electoral Officer, Himachal Pradesh. Smt. Nanda said that these observers are R. Binchillo Thong, B.K. Kharel (general observers) and Milind Gawai (expenditure ...
Himachal seeks its share of employment in SJVNL projects
2008-05-03 11:44:00 Shimla: Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, has raised the issue of providing a minimum of 70 percent employment at all level to the state youth in Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (SJVNL) in all its operational and under execution projects. In a letter written to Sushil Kumar Shinde, Union Power Minister, Chief Minister said that ... More About: Projects , Employment , Share
US Ambassador Nancy Powell urged Nepali PM to ensure Tibetans right of peac
2008-05-03 09:45:00 Bijender Sharma writes from Dharamshala: The United States Ambassador Nancy Powell called on Prime Minister Koirala to express official concern about the treatment of Tibetans by Nepali authorities, besides discussing the current political-economic situation in the wake of the final election results. As per information reached here, Ambassador Powell urged the Prime Minister to ensure that ...
Tibetan Protest all over Tibet
2008-05-02 15:32:00 Bijender Sharma writes: A day after protest broke out in Lhasa city, it spread to the adjacent Phenpo County, in the east of Lhasa city, thousands from Tibet ans of all walks of life protested in Phenpo Lhundup County. The Chinese government responded the protesters with harsh crackdown and during which many Tibetan s were killed, arrested, ... More About: Protest
Revenue: Mohali transport office excels
2008-05-02 15:15:00 Chandigarh: The Mohali district transport office collected Rs 1,488.30 lakh as revenue during the year 2007-2008 which is an increase of 61 per cent against the budget fixed for the year. This is the maximum revenue earned by any district throughout the state. The revenue earned by other districts of Punjab varied between 12 per cent ... More About: Office , Transport , Revenue
Governor inaugurates Commercial Complex in Raghu Nath Temple Campus at Ramp
2008-05-02 15:09:00 Shimla: V.S. Kokje, Governor of Himachal Pradesh inaugurated a Commercial Complex at a cost of Rs. 397 lacs in Raghu Nath Temple campus at Rampur today. The complex building is a three-storeyed RCC framed structure having accommodation of 12 shops, 6 Halls, 10 suits attached with toilets and with the facilities of lift and parking. Virbhadra Singh, ... More About: Campus
Himachal Protest with Delhi Government over Raw reatment to Fruit Growers i
2008-05-02 15:02:00 New Delhi : Himachal Pradesh Government has strongly protested with Delhi Government over raw treatment being meted out to the Himachali fruit growers by the commission agents in Asia’s biggest fruit market Azadpur Subzi Mandi Delhi. Himachal Pradesh Horticulture Minister Narender Bragta called on Delhi Chief Minister Smt. Sheila Dixit in Delhi today and listed the various ... More About: Fruit , Protest
TSC rejects recent Chinese trial
More articles from this author:2008-05-02 11:57:00 Bijender Sharma writes from Dharmshala: Tibetan Solidarity Committee (TSC) today Disproved Chinese Government’s Recent Trial . A spokesman of the T S C said here today that the court’s verdict of some Tibetans by the so-called People’s Intermediate Court in Lhasa. First report entailed 17 Tibetans have been tried and, it again reported sentencing of 30 ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |



