A total of 38 lakh voters will cast their vote in the Lok Sabha elections for four seats and Assembly byelections for six segments(Dharamsala, Barsar, Lahaul-Spiti, Sunajpur, Gagret and Kutlehar) to be held simultaneously on June 1. There are 56,38,422 voters comprising 28,79,200 men, 27,59,187 women and 35 third gender. There will be 1,38,918 first-time voters (75,001 male and 63,916 female) in the 18 to 19 years’ age group in these elections. The total number of voters with physical disability is 56,320, besides 60,995 voters above the age of 85 years.Read More
Ambar Mahajan, has been appointed the Director of the Board of Directors of Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC).Read More
Shoolini University researchers claimed to have achieved the landmark of being granted 100 patents by the Indian Patent Office, which looks after the intellectual property under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. The departments of chemistry and physics secured 23 and 29 patents, respectively. The engineering and pharmacy departments have also made significant strides with 15 and 12 patents, respectively.Read More
Chamba MLA has expressed gratitude to Chief Minister for declaring the Suhi fair and Saho Jatar of Chamba as district-level events. Declaring these two fairs as district-level events would help local artistes, craftsmen, artisans, and self-help groups to uplift their economy. The Suhi fair is celebrated in the month of April. This fair is exclusive for women and children of Himachal Pradesh. This fair is celebrated to pay tribute to the Rani Sunayana, popularly known as Rani Suhi, who had sacrificed herself to bring water in the Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh.Read More
Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur grandly inaugurated the Sansad Khel Mahakumbh 3.0 at the Luhnu Cricket Ground in Bilaspur, Hamirpur constituency. The Union Minister said as many as 40,000 athletes participated in the first edition of Sansad Khel Mahakumbh in 2018 while 45,000 aspiring sportspersons took part in the second edition of the event. The target for the third edition is the participation of 75,000 players.Read More
Himachal Pradesh's Chief Minister recently inaugurated the Asian River Rafting Championship on the Sutlej River at Basantpur near Shimla. About 20 national and international teams from Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Indonesia, are participating in the championship, It has drawn international attention, showcasing the global appeal of river rafting as a sport and Himachal Pradesh as a prime destination for adventure tourism. Read More
Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu recently announced that monthly financial assistance of ₹1,500 will be given to women above 18 years, during the ongoing financial year. Under ‘Indira Gandhi Pyari Behna Sukh Samman Nidhi Yojana’, all the women above 18 years of age of the State will be given ₹1,500 per month. It will put an additional financial burden of about ₹800 crore annually on the State exchequer. Around five lakh women were expected to benefit from the scheme. The government was already providing ₹1,500 to all the women of district Lahaul-Spiti and to all women of the State aged above....Read More
A day before Punjab’s 99-year lease of the Shanan power project was to end, the Centre has ordered the status quo so as not to disrupt the functioning of the 110 MW power plant, located in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. ABOUT THE PROJECT The initial capacity of the Shanan Power Project was 48 MW which, over a period of time, has been increased to 110 MW. When the project was first envisaged, its cost was Rs 2.50 crore, but its value today is calculated at around Rs 1,600 crore. The British-era project at Jogindernagar, 40 km from Palampur in HP, was....Read More
Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kuldeep Pathania disqualified six rebel Congress legislators from the membership of the Himachal Vidhan Sabha under the provision of the anti-defection law. The six MLAs who have been the disqualified are Sudhir Sharma (Dharamsala), Rajinder Rana (Sujanpur), Inder Dutt Lakhanpal (Barsar), Ravi Thakur (Lahaul-Spiti), Chaitanya Sharma (Gagret) and Davinder Bhutto (Kutlehar). It is first-ever disqualification of any MLA under the anti-defection law in the history of Himachal Pradesh. BRIEF OF ANTI DEFECTION LAW The anti-defection law (found under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution) was enacted to curb frequent floor-crossing by legislators. It was added to the....Read More
IPS officer Atul Verma was recently appointed as the director general of Himachal Pradesh CID. Verma is a 1991-batch IPS officer and replaced Additional DGP of State Vigilance and anti-corruption bureau Satwant Atwal Trivedi, who had an additional charge as DG-CID.Read More
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