willow trees are drying up in the Lahaul valley of Himachal Pradesh. The Himalayan Forest Research Institute (hfri), Shimla, says that in the past decade more than 3,000 trees have died from aphid

the Himachal Pradesh High Court recently ordered the expansion of Ranbaxy's fermentation plant in Ganguwala village in the Sirmaur district to be stopped. The order came after residents of the

Climate Change, an Untold Story

If the Indian paper industry has to grow exponentially, it must upgrade the quality of its product with one simple input: the increased use of pcc or precipitated calcium carbonate, which is found in abundance in Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh or continue to face the threat of imported high grade paper at a high cost. This is the contention of a Florida-based scientist Dr.

Can a town be overweight? Shimla, capital of Himachal Pradesh, has managed to become just that. The load, as always, has been piling on over the years. In this case, storey by storey.
The erstwhile summer capital of the British empire, once hailed as the Queen of Hill Stations, has now become an outsized, uncontrolled monster in urgent need of therapy.

A meet on evaluating the value of forests