Ashwani Sharma is a Shimla based journalist and a former correspondent with The Indian Express

January 04, 1999 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, January 3: The shadow of cancer is looming large over Himachal Pradesh, with the state currently facing a formidable challenge of...
Mon, Jan 04, 1999
January 02, 1999 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, January 1: The Himachal Pradesh Government has finalised a broad-strategy to deal with monkey menace in Shimla and other rural to...
Sat, Jan 02, 1999
December 31, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Dec 30: While the tourists booked in the luxurious Shimla hotels will wine, dine and dance in the tastefully decorated indoor hal...
Thu, Dec 31, 1998
December 29, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Dec 28: Countdown for the ban on coloured polythene bags has begun. As the ban is slated to come into force from January 1, 1999,...
Tue, Dec 29, 1998
December 28, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Dec 27: Tumultuous and epoch-making. With this epithet 1998 goes down in the annals of Himachal Pradesh. The year had the hills r...
Mon, Dec 28, 1998
December 22, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Dec 21: The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) has approached the Himachal Pradesh Government asking for its active support i...
Tue, Dec 22, 1998
December 21, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA December 20: Even as the Centre has received the chief ministers' nod to levy generation cess on the power projects in the country...
Mon, Dec 21, 1998
December 16, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Dec 15: Anna Hazare, eminent social reformer and crusader against corruption proposes to visit the interiors of Himachal and lend...
Wed, Dec 16, 1998
December 08, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, DEC 7: The loss of the Baijnath seat to the BJP has triggered off a battle in the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in Himachal Pr...
Tue, Dec 08, 1998
December 05, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, December 4: The Rs 92-crore World Bank funded project on Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) launched recently by Himachal Prades...
Sat, Dec 05, 1998
December 03, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Dec 2: In a major climb-down on his demand for the CBI probe, Himachal Vikas Congress president Sukh Ram today set out a conditio...
Thu, Dec 03, 1998
December 03, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Dec 2: The Opposition Congress today geared itself up for major offensives against the eight-month-old BJP-HVC coalition governme...
Thu, Dec 03, 1998
November 25, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Nov 24: Residents of Shimla have seen many of Shimla's beautiful buildings, either reduced to ashes by fire or simply demolished -- ...
Wed, Nov 25, 1998
November 20, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Nov 19: Decks have finally been cleared for the proposed ban on the use of the coloured polythene bags made out of the recycled non-...
Fri, Nov 20, 1998
November 09, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, November 8: In a major step forward to deal with polythene menace, the Himachal Pradesh Government now proposes to ban use of recycl...
Mon, Nov 09, 1998
November 03, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Nov 2: Himachal Pradesh government is opposed to the central government move to impose consumption tax on the hydro power and instea...
Tue, Nov 03, 1998
October 26, 1998 00:00 IST
CHANDIGARH, October 25:IN a breakthrough of sorts in the country, doctors at Shimla's Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) hospital have ...
Mon, Oct 26, 1998
October 26, 1998 00:00 IST
NAUNI (Solan), Oct 25: Yeshwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry has taken up the task to make lower Himachal belt a ...
Mon, Oct 26, 1998
October 24, 1998 00:00 IST
CHANDIGARH, October 23: Himachal apples are contamination-free and contain no pesticide residuals. The produce conforms to international ...
Sat, Oct 24, 1998
October 21, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Oct 20: One youth has died and another has been hospitalised in a serious condition due to the abuse of drugs, rampant in some pa...
Wed, Oct 21, 1998
October 15, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Oct 14: The State Human Rights Commission has asked Zahoor Zaidi, Superintendent of Police, Kullu, to submit a report on the disa...
Thu, Oct 15, 1998
October 13, 1998 00:00 IST
CHANDIGARH, October 12: Preparing a strong defence mechanism in the militancy affected Chamba areas, specialised commando and anti-insurg...
Tue, Oct 13, 1998
October 03, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, Oct 2: Comfortable in the saddle, Prem Kumar Dhumal is not much keen to expand his six-month old ministry. Over half a dozen BJP ...
Sat, Oct 03, 1998
September 25, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, September 24: Come next summer and Kufri, Shimla's famous all season tourists' resort, will be a much clean place free from mud, ...
Fri, Sep 25, 1998
September 24, 1998 00:00 IST
SHIMLA, September 22: The Himachal Pradesh government's ambitious plan to introduce the rapid mass transport system (MTS) in Shimla seems...
Thu, Sep 24, 1998



