Shimla: Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has called upon non-government organisations and voluntary agencies to take up afforestation drive in a big way to help combat climate change.
Shimla : The Union Ministry of Renewable Energy has agreed in principle to develop Shimla and Hamirpur towns as solar cities and Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, and National Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamirpur, as energy parks.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) to stop construction work at the Parbati Stage-II site (Kullu) till further orders.
While passing this interim order, the court observed that visual impression of the photographs annexed with the petition showed that debris had been thrown in the Parbati river without proper precautions.
The government has posed the Rs 1197.60 crore Pabbar gravity drinking water scheme to the World Bank for funding to cater to the water requirement of the state capital for the next 35 years.
This was stated by Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Minister Ravinder Ravi in reply to a question by Roop Singh (BJP) during the Question Hour in the Assembly, today.
Solan: Apart from their brilliant academic track records Ankit Chaudhary, Rajinder Rana, Anchal, Devi, Anjali and a bunch of others like them in Nauni, a picturesque town nestled in Solan, 45km from Shimla, have one more thing in common. They are all workers labouring under NREGA.
The hill state has been, so far, free from the H1N1 virus, though there were two cases of suspected contact with infected persons which only caused a false alarm.
Scientists are trying to protect a traditional rice variety that is on the verge of extinction in Himachal Pradesh. The red rice is more disease-resistant and hardier than strains cultivated commercially over most of India and can lend that through cross-breeding.
The initiative taken by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in collaboration with Coke India Limited to create awareness and educate the hotel industry about the need to conserve water turned out to be a wasteful exercise as only a handful of hoteliers attended the event.
