Traditional timber and slate houses vs a neo concrete nightmare in a Himachal village

THE POLITICS OF COOPERATIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT Rajeev Ahal . Published by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development . Kathmandu . 2002 . 71 pages

How some villages stayed afloat even as neighbouring lands parched

Finally, hydro power is getting the importance that it deserves in Himachal Pradesh. The state, which boasts of a generation capacity of 25,000 megawatts (mw), had only tapped a fraction of its

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has frowned upon the decibel din in the state. Acting on a petition, the court has issued notices to the state chief secretary and the state pollution control board

JAGDISH BAHADUR, an expert on glaciers and former joint advisor, department of science and technology, and SYED IQBAL HASNAIN , who heads the Glacier Research Group at Jawaharlal Nehru University, criticise India s lack of a positive response to a rece

In a dubious first, a police vehicle has been found to be used in smuggling and a station house officer (sho) nabbed for his role in the incident. The forest development committee members at

Union ministers squabble over aphrodisiac musk

Is Span motel s punishment commensurate with its crime? Experts wonder

for now, the construction of the controversial Dalhousie-Chamba highway has been stalled. Recently, the Union

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