Author: Gopal Puri

SHIMLA: An Israeli trekker, who had gone missing near Hamta Pass on the border of Kullu and Lahaul-Spiti districts in Himachal Pradesh, has been traced by the police and local administration officials. The Lahaul-Spiti District Emergency Operation Centre said the missing trekker, Ran, was traced near the Hamta Pass trek around noon. He was spotted […]

  SHIMLA: BJP workers in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh are humming a new slogan these days: ‘Is bar sakar nahi, riwaz badlenge (this time we will change the tradition of governments not repeating)’. With this resolve in mind, the Jai Ram Thakur government has gone on a spree to announce jobs, new schemes, and administration offices […]

SHIMLA: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday threw down the gauntlet to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the home turf of Union minister Anurag Thakur ahead of the Himachal Pradesh polls. Highlighting the education system in Delhi, where his party is in power, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo told the people […]

SHIMLA: Wear half-sleeve shirts, stay indoors in the afternoon and turn on the fan or the air-conditioner. It was an advisory usually seen for the Indian plains that scorched during the summer. But not anymore as the effects of global warming were seen on the alluring hill stations of Himachal Pradesh – that attract hordes […]

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police have identified eight suspected sharpshooters belonging to Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Maharashtra who killed Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala at Jawaharke village in Mansa on May 29. The suspected sharpshooters are Jagroop Singh Rupa from Amritsar, Manni from Amritsar, Subhash Banuda from Rajasthan’s Sikar, Saurav Mahakal and Santosh Jadhav from Pune, Manpreet […]

MANDI (HIMACHAL PRADESH): Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, claim to have developed cooperative spectrum sensors that will provide state-of-the-art solutions in telecommunication technology and enhance the reusability of the radiofrequency spectrum to meet the growing demands of data communication in the future 5G and 6G wireless communication applications. Radiofrequency waves or “spectrum”, […]

  CHAMBI (HIMACHAL PRADESH): “Speak loudly, ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Your voice should reach Amethi to the ears of that ‘Yuvraj’ whose mother during the Congress regime had dictated the lawyers to tell the court that Ram doesn’t exist”. Union minister of women and child development Smriti Irani minced no words as she blew the poll […]

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s move to sack his Health Minister Vijay Singla not only earned his plaudits on the social media but appeared to have rekindled hope for an embattled Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the poll-bound Himachal Pradesh. Not only that, the Punjab police’s anti-corruption branch also arrested the MLA from Mansa […]

NURPUR (HP): The final battle for the ballot is still months away, but trouble seems to be brewing for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Himachal Pradesh ahead of the Assembly elections later this year. With an aim to strengthen the party in Kangra district, BJP had awarded its outspoken leader from Nurpur, Rakesh […]

  SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Assembly Deputy Speaker Hans Raj has kicked a storm by slapping a kid in a classroom even as the pupil’s father has defended the action and not sought any reprimand against the MLA. A video purportedly showing the BJP leader slapping the student in a classroom of a government primary school […]