-Nano shell in the making

TAPAS CHAKRABORTY

The Nano: On course
Pantnagar, Sept. 15: Amid efforts to ensure the Nano rollout from Bengal, a Tata Mo- tors team that had been engaged in Singur has been making up for lost time by working on the car

The debate

Today turned to be the most inconvenient day for commuters, tourists and general passengers here when they have experienced a lot of hardship when agitating farmers from this subdivision under the banner of the Kisan Vikas Sabha (KVS) blocked traffic at three different routes paralysing the whole traffic movement for about four hours. The local police and the administration have failed to persuade them to lift blockade beyond their schedule time.

Shimla, September 08 On the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of International Literacy Day, Governor Prabha Rau gave out a message to have a focused policy to educate adults under the Continuing Education Campaign. The CEC was the third phase of the Literacy Mission that was launched in the country in 1988, but it could not take off in Himachal except in Mandi district.

Palampur, September 7

Chief Minister P.K. Dhumal said the state government would soon come out with a new tourism policy to attract more tourists to the state.

He said the state had the potential for providing the best tourism facilities to the tourists.

A press statement issued on behalf of the Chief Minister said the government was planning to introduce

Solan, September 02 A two-member team of the Central Bureau of Investigations on Tuesday, arrived in Rihun village, Solan sub-division, to probe the case where 18 people from Haryana, including Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Nirmal Yadav, had purchased land allegedly in violation of the Himachal Pradesh Land Reforms and Tenancy Act-1972. The team also visited the office of Tehsildar and inquired about the facts relating to the controversial land deal.

Shivalik foothills in Himachal Pradesh are marked by frequent crop failures due to erratic rainfall, lack of irrigation facilities, serious soil erosion problem, unemployment and poverty. During the earlier days the villages of the region had their own ponds, which served the society. Over the period of time bond of the villagers over such common property is getting weak.

Book>> Becoming India

about a month after the Japanese drug company, Daiichi Sankyo, acquired majority shares in Ranbaxy, India

After the in-principle approval of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to the Himachal Pradesh proposal on the railway line to Leh via Manali and 13,051-foot-high Rohtang Pass, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Tuesday offered to the Centre to undertake the entire land acquisition and rehabilitation process along 400-km Himachal stretch and get a pre-feasibility report on the project prepared by November 30.

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