There is no immediate need to release water from Himachal Pradesh’s Bhakra dam — a process that may flood some low-lying areas in Punjab — despite the rising level in its reservoir, an official said Thursday.
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New Delhi News.Net Thursday 12th August, 2010 More than 50 schoolchildren had a narrow escape in this Himachal Pradesh town when a tree fell on their classroom Thursday evening, an official said.
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Poonam Mahajan, the daughter of late Bharatiya Janata Party – leader Pramod Mahajan, has been appointed a vice president of the party’s youth wing.
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India Gazette Thursday 12th August, 2010 Himachal Pradesh Chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal announced Thursday that the government will provide free week-long boarding and lodging in its hotels to world record holding athletes during the Commonwealth Games, a statement said.
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The Himachal Pradesh government has declared Naura of Sulah block in Kangra district as the ‘best panchayat’ for 2010, qualifying for the state-level Maharishi Valmiki Sampurna Swachhata Puraskar under the community-led Total Sanitation Campaign.
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It meanders through the country’s history and hills, but Himachal Pradesh’s prominent Ravi river may soon lose some of its glory.
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By Hemant Chauhan, Shimla, Aug. 13 : Transporters in Himachal Pradesh are exploiting apple farmers by charging more than the accepted transport fare.
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New Delhi News.Net Friday 13th August, 2010 Tension prevailed in a Himachal Pradesh village in Sirmaur district Friday over an inter-caste marriage, police said.
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New Delhi, Aug 13 : The issue of a hydropower project that has been hanging fire for the last 33 years at Baddi in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh was broached by Anurag Thakur in the Lok Sabha today.
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