<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:21:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Himachal Blog</title><description>Himachal blog provide update information, news, artciles and tourist guide to Himachal Pradesh</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>118</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-832791653285283716</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-02T01:21:19.125-07:00</atom:updated><title>Loans</title><description>With the economy the way it stands today, more and more people are finding it is a buyer’s open market when looking to purchase first homes as well as additional investment homes. These days Home &lt;a href="http://www.logf.dk"&gt;lån&lt;/a&gt; are available from numerous types of lenders. These lenders vary from your commercial downtown banks, &lt;em&gt;mortgage&lt;/em&gt; companies to even your own local credit unions.&lt;br /&gt;If you’re a first time buyer looking for a first time Home Loans, be sure to search different types of Loan Lenders. The more Home Loan Lenders you seek out you will find, that they all will give you different quoted prices. It’s important to make sure that you don’t stop there making your contacts and we suggest that you even try your hand at contacting a Mortgage Broker. Also different types of  Lån are available like &lt;a href="http://www.logf.dk/laan.html"&gt;Lån uden sikkerhed&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.nytboliglaan.dk"&gt;Boliglån&lt;/a&gt;. It depends on what type of loan you are looking from and what is your payback capacity.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2008/10/loans.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-8638746144102747751</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-24T10:07:21.098-07:00</atom:updated><title>Himalyan Directory Review</title><description>&lt;div class="p-con"&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a title="Website directory" href="http://www.himalyan.com/"&gt;Himalyan &lt;/a&gt;a 6 year old directory owned and maintained by Megrisoft a 9 year old company ensures that your listing will remain for years to come. The site editor is Kevin who has well experience of 10 years of directory editing which ensure listing of quality sites. 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These hostels provide all facilities you will need without breaking your bank. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; also offers a few more affordable youth hostels. We can find cheapest kind of youth accommodation in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;. Youth hostels in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; provide housing where a number of persons share the same room and bathroom. Most of the youth hostels feature a common eating room, common internet access and other facilities. Youth hostels are a good accommodation for students on a limited budget and very perfect place to meet the new travelers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Flying&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Pig&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; hostel in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; is located I quite right to the Vondelpark.It is popular for this relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Bob's youth hostel is really a few walk from the central station offers all affordable facilities of a hostel like hot showers, sheets provided, eating, no curfew and a big room where you can smoke and drink. International budget hostel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; is a backpacker's, student and youth's hostel. It is few walk from the leidseplein and it has four person dorm styles. AAE Amsterdam youth hostel is mid price range hostel. This hostel lies directly across the Dappermarket, clean, cool hostel, just a short walk from central station. Here, traveler of all ages can enjoy stay in a limited budget. Flying Pig youth hostels &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; are known for their relaxed and quite atmosphere, friendly staffs or self service kitchen. This hostel is equipped with all facilities such as free breakfast, luggage room, internet access, showers, lockers etc. Flying Pig youth hostel have three hostels for youths, these are Downtown, Uptown and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Flying&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Pig&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;  hostel. These hostels offer cheap accommodation for all travelers.&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Youth hostels in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; are perfect place to meet people, to explore and to exchange experiences. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; plays an important role with regard to youth hostels in 1932, as it has a membership of International Youth Hostel Foundation. There are quite number of youth hostels in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; for students and youths to provide pleasant accommodation. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hostels247.com/AMSTERDAM/" target="_blank"&gt;Cheap Amsterdam Youth Hostels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;The Avingo youth hostel is beautifully decorated and located in the centre of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; . Travelers from all over the world come here and enjoy the stay. Their staff is friendly and Multilanguage which can give answer of all questions. The Beagle House Boat hostel is surrounded by historical buildings and museums. Hostel's rooms are with free internet access, coffee or tea making or all types of tourist information. Hostel Slotania is comfortable and affordable hostel with double or triple rooms having bath, shower, and TV and telephone service at low prices. One of the unique youth hostel of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; is Sphinx hostel surrounded by shopping areas, flower market and entertainment centers. Rooms are decorated with romantic Old Dutch Style. Shelter city Christian hostel offers bed, breakfast, hot showers, and lockers for youths at lowest prices. Tourist will get night sleep at affordable price. This hostel has a big café where you get anything according to your need. It is situated near historical Nieuwmarkt area make easy to explore &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; . Cheap hostels in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; provide ample opportunities for fun and entertainment. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hostels247.com/AMSTERDAM/" target="_blank"&gt;Cheap Amsterdam Youth Hostels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; remains full with tourists in all seasons In Youth hostels rooms, bathrooms and showers are shared by two or more persons. Every year &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; is visited by thousands of travelers and adventures brings a huge amount of tourist dollars to the city. Infect, Hostels in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; doing good business by providing inexpensive stay to backpackers and people who want to see one of the world's greatest cities in tight budget. While you are staying in youth hostel in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; , you can take benefit by meeting other people who are also traveling. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hostels247.com/AMSTERDAM/" target="_blank"&gt;Cheap Amsterdam Youth Hostels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; are the clean accommodations with all living facilities. A trip to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; is not out of your price range since youth hostels have made it possible for people who would not have the money for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; travel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2008/01/cheap-amsterdam-youth-hostels.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-114536184781899174</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-18T05:04:07.836-07:00</atom:updated><title>SubmitShop Launched Article Submission Services</title><description>(&lt;b&gt;SUBMITSHOP.COM&lt;/b&gt;) Nameeta Kashyap, COO of Megrisoft Network (http://www.megrisoft.com) is pleased to announce the launch of Article Submission Services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Submit Shop a &lt;b&gt;7year old company&lt;/b&gt; (Since 1999) in submission services has launched manual article submission or distribution services at affordable prices. 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Shimla and pasture development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On first, third and fifth Sunday of every month, DD-I telecasts ‘Himachal Diary’ at 7.15. P.M.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/02/himachal-diary-telecast-on-dd-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113930107133377213</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-02-07T00:31:15.026-08:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Important buildings of the British era&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, including churches and cemeteries, along with natural features have been included in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;plan to preserve the heritage of the famous hill resort&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of Dalhousie in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indiabook.com/page/1285.html"&gt;Chamba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; district.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The circular Mall Road along with the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;GPO, Gandhi Chowk and the Sadar Bazar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; will be part of the heritage zone which also includes green municipal forest areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The elegant &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;St Francis Church&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which was the first to be constructed after the British set up the town in 1860 tops the list of heritage structures. The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sacred Heart School Building&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which came up in 1902 and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachalonline.com/bbs/himachal-travel-guide-vf22.html"&gt;tourist spots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; like Subhash Bowli and memorial of Ajit Singh have also been included in the heritage plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The heritage plan will be integrated with development plan for the town currently in force after disposing of the objections, if any, by local people to the plan.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/02/important-buildings-of-british-era.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113808465334726594</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-01-23T22:37:33.366-08:00</atom:updated><title>Himachal to sign MoU with 3 universities</title><description>The state government’s move to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the three universities to expedite the process of fiscal reforms is likely to meet stiff resistance from students and employees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fund-starved universities have been asked to sign the document to avail enhanced grant. Further, there will be no annual increase in the grant for the next three years. The functioning of the institutions, including the implementation of the MoU, will be reviewed after three years for the revision of grant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reeling under constant pressure from students and employees bodies, the university authorities have, in the past, failed to take any such steps. The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himalyanindia.com/dir/Society/Politics/Socialism/Youth_and_Student/"&gt;Students Federation of India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has already threatened to start a state-wide agitation to force the authorities to drop the move to sign the MoU.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/01/himachal-to-sign-mou-with-3.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113800331858348008</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-01-23T00:01:58.710-08:00</atom:updated><title>Areas of Himachal isolated due to heavy snowfall</title><description>The Kinnaur district and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachalonline.com/lahaul/spitivalley.htm"&gt;Spiti valley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of Himachal Pradesh &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;remained isolated from the rest of the state for the sixth day today due to heavy snowfall and landslides&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Work to re-establish power supply to Kinnaur and Spiti, and to clear the National Highway (Hindustan-Tibet road) has been hindered due to the heavy snowfall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Kirtpur-Manali National Highway, which was open upto &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opendirectory.in/Regional/Himachal_Pradesh/Localities/Manali/"&gt;Manali&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on Friday, has been opened upto Palching and efforts are being made to open the road upto Solang Nallah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the power houses in the region were also damaged due to heavy landslides in the region. Experts from Delhi have been called to review the loss and to carry out the power generation again.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/01/areas-of-himachal-isolated-due-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113774259506908842</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-01-19T23:36:35.096-08:00</atom:updated><title>More Sugar mills- Boom for sugarcane farmers</title><description>More than a decade after farmers in Himachal Pradesh’s Una district abandoned growing sugarcane for want of an assured market and accountable processing, the prospect of two new sugar mills is forcing a relook at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himalyanindia.com/dir/Science/Agriculture/Field_Crops/Sugarcane/"&gt;sugarcane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With one mill cleared early last year but yet to take off, the government sanctioned a second mill in December. The cost analysis, as determined by experts, indicates that farmers can get returns of Rs 30,000-40,000 per acre; for hybrid varieties, this could go up to Rs 50,000/acre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both mills are looking at integrated projects, including production of ethanol, IMFL and bio-compost and, as such, could throw up plenty of job opportunities for locals.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/01/more-sugar-mills-boom-for-sugarcane.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113767476650903316</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-01-19T04:46:08.670-08:00</atom:updated><title>New Transfer Policy announced</title><description>Irrigation and Public Health Minister, Kaul Singh Thakur, who is also Chairman of New Transfer Policy Committee said that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;new Transfer Policy has almost been formulated which would be sent for Cabinet for discussion and its approval&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thakur said that there was need for framing of New Transfer Policy as the present policy being implemented from the last two and a half decade has been become obsolete and old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said that the draft of the New Transfer Policy had been prepared after intensive discussions in the meetings with Heads of the Departments, Secretaries and NGOs Federation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The policy would be uniform to all the employees and also thanked the Presidents and General Secretaries of various &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indiabook.com/classifieds/Business_and_Products/Associations/"&gt;Associations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for giving their suggestions. The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;period of General Transfer under the policy has been envisaged from 10th April to 20th May every year&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/01/new-transfer-policy-announced.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113739047286639665</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-01-15T21:47:52.880-08:00</atom:updated><title>Governor of HP stressed to promote sports at rural areas</title><description>V.S. Kokje, Governor addresses the participants and audience on inaugratiion of Women Hockey Championship at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachalonline.com/distances/Nahan.htm"&gt;Nahan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;He stressed on the need to provide sports facilities at rural-level&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; so that the Pradesh could be brought on International Sportsmap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said that for promoting education and sports activity, all possibilities are available in the State which needed to be tapped on massive-scale. He further said that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;proper training facilities could be provided to the sportsmen so that they could be prepared for State and International-level Sports Championship&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hockey team drawn from Northern States like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.searchpunjab.com"&gt;Punjab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Chandigarh, Jammu &amp; Kashmir , Papsu &amp;amp; Himachal Pradesh are participating in the Championship.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/01/governor-of-hp-stressed-to-promote.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113738971215686303</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 05:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-01-15T21:35:12.186-08:00</atom:updated><title>49 lakh to Salig-Jather water supply scheme, CM</title><description>Special Economic Zone has been envisioned for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachalonline.com/distances/Kangra.htm"&gt;district Kangra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; where in quality industrial expansion activities would be carried out and employment avenues created to the local people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh dedicated the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Salig-Jather water supply scheme completed at a cost of Rs. 48.70 lakh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and augmented &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;water supply scheme Fatehpur competed at a cost of Rs. 34 lakh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to the people of the areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also said, road connectivity and safe drinking water would be ensured to all the villages for which an elaborated scheme had been formulated and Rs. 700 crore would be spent on both the programmes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later, Chief Minister, dedicated &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Manjih Khad bridge on Yol-Dadh-Palampur road completed at a cost of Rs. 70.05 lakh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ghurlu Nallah bridge constructed at a cost of Rs. 34 lakh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to the people of the area.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/01/49-lakh-to-salig-jather-water-supply.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113697580549558675</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-01-11T02:36:45.496-08:00</atom:updated><title>Republic Day function at Ridge Maidan, Shimla</title><description>The State-level &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indiabook.com/india-information/republic-india.html"&gt;Republic Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;function on 26th January, 2006 would be held at Ridge Maidan Shimla.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; V.S. Kokje, Governor would preside over the function. Dharam Pal Thakur, Deputy Speaker, H.P. Vidhan Sabha will also attend the function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The function at District-level would be presided over by Gangu Ram Musafir, Speaker, H.P. Vidhan Sabha at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opendirectory.in/Regional/Himachal_Pradesh/Districts/Solan/"&gt;Solan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Smt. Vidya Stokes, MPP &amp;amp; Power Minister at Bilaspur, Kaul Singh Thakur, Irrigation and Public Health Minister at Kangra, Sat Mahajan, Revenue Minister at Chamba and Rangila Ram Rao, Excise and Taxation Minister at Kullu.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/01/republic-day-function-at-ridge-maidan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113697521384125106</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-01-11T02:26:53.863-08:00</atom:updated><title>HP committed to promote tea industry</title><description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;State Government is committed to revival, promotion and preservation of the tea industry&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and best efforts were being made to produce quality tea, obtain Central Government and external aided projects to give boost to tea gardening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister of HP said that the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himalyanindia.com/dir/Business/Food_and_Related_Products/Beverages/Tea/"&gt;tea industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; needed to be maintained and managed professionally and latest marketing strategies should be worked out to attract more consumer markets globally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also said that the Tea Board of India had granted a project which ended in December, 05 to develop 80 to 100 hectares of area for tea plantations and induce quality awareness during the period of 2000-2005 and the project had encouraged the tea planters in the district.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2006/01/hp-committed-to-promote-tea-industry.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113567162969407506</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-27T00:20:29.753-08:00</atom:updated><title>Chilling cold in Kullu</title><description>For many families in Kullu, the chilling cold has compelled them to ponder if this winter had any precedent. Well, their point looks valid, especially, when one recalls similar days and nights full of shivering, experienced a decade ago. In the absence of any snowfall, the main fascination for tourists, and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;harsh weather conditions have made residents' life a misery&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, badly affecting the tourism industry of the Valley.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During this time of the year &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opendirectory.in/Regional/Himachal_Pradesh/Districts/Kullu/"&gt;Kullu valley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is normally packed with tourists, who visit the place to experience snowfall. But this year there is just &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;dry cold wind blowing which in turn has dampened the season.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/chilling-cold-in-kullu.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113559038935052568</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-26T01:46:30.753-08:00</atom:updated><title>Season Ist Assembly in Dharamshala</title><description>For the first time in the history of Himachal politics,&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; the winter session of the State Assembly will be held outside the state capital Shimla&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from December 26 to December 29.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, local Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Sunil Manocha has accused the Virbhadra Singh's Government of indulging in lavish expenditure for the session. He said that it would have been better if the money had been used for the welfare and development of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachalonline.com/distances/Kangra.htm"&gt;Kangra district&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year's session is being held at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opendirectory.in/Regional/Himachal_Pradesh/Localities/Dharamshala/"&gt;Dharamshala&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in the state's Kangra District. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The session is being held at Prayas Bhawan of the Dharamshala Government College&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and will have four sittings. Moreover, important legislative business will be undertaken during the session.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/season-ist-assembly-in-dharamshala.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113505861334809643</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 05:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-19T22:03:33.370-08:00</atom:updated><title>Ist phase of panchayat elections held peacefully</title><description>The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;first phase of panchayat elections in Himachal went off peacefully&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on Sunday with some of the areas even expecting results of the panchayat pradhans (presidents). There were direct elections for the panchayat presidents, BDC members and Zila Parishad members in one third panchayats of the State.&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;second and third phase of polling in villages will be held on 18th and 20th December&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and the urban local bodies would go to poll on 24th December.&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opendirectory.in/Regional/Himachal_Pradesh/Government/"&gt;State Government&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; had announced this time a grant of Rs. 10 lakh for the Panchayats who would elect their members unopposed. And in the process 304 panchayats in the State have been elected unanimously by the villagers.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/ist-phase-of-panchayat-elections-held.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113497536018453356</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-18T22:56:00.210-08:00</atom:updated><title>Gram Nayayalayas establishment stressed</title><description>Irrigation and Public Health Minister and Law Minister, Kaul Singh Thakur said that today all disputes in Malana village in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opendirectory.in/Regional/Himachal_Pradesh/Districts/Kullu/"&gt;Kullu District&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the state are being settled by the village parliament and no case is filed in the court by the residents. The village is perhaps oldest republic of the world. Kaul Singh was speaking in National Law Ministers and Law Secretaries Conference to discuss proposed Gram Nyalayas Bill in Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi.&lt;br /&gt;He said that court cases pendency has been reduced significantly in the state due to excellent performance of subordinate courts, which are being assessed periodically by State High Court in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachalonline.net/shimla.html"&gt;Shimla&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;He also said that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gram Nayayalays will strengthen the grass-root level administrative and judicial units in the country&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and ensure speedy, cost effective and quality justice to the needy people.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/gram-nayayalayas-establishment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113456178959069738</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-14T04:15:20.176-08:00</atom:updated><title>Lama Dance of Himachal</title><description>Every year &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Khampagar monastery in Himachal Pradesh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; transforms into a vista of cultural extravaganza. Its courtyard reverberates with the clang of cymbals and the music of trumpets. For, this is the time when dressed in traditional attires, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Buddhist monks(Lamas)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the monastery participate in its &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;special dance form--Lama dance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Lama dance, is a special &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himalyanindia.com/dir/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Buddhism/"&gt;Buddhist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; dance performed by monks on ceremonial days. But every year for two weeks it is performed in Khampagar monastery, situated 40 kilometres from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachalonline.com/dharamshala/"&gt;Dharamshala&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The ancient traditional practice of Lama dance is a part of the Mahakala Puja held recently by the monks of the Drukpa Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/lama-dance-of-himachal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113437263878426193</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-11T23:30:38.823-08:00</atom:updated><title>HP CM lays foundation stone of study centre of HP University at Noida</title><description>Himachal Pradesh University Shimla plans to be global by launching its programmes in the other countries and is set to become digital in its offering and interactions. This was disclosed by Virbhadra Singh, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chief Minister while laying the foundation stone of Study Centre of Himachal Pradesh University&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himalyanindia.com/dir/Regional/Asia/India/Uttar_Pradesh/Localities/Noida/"&gt;Noida&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; near New Delhi today to be constructed at a cost of Rs. four crore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachalonline.com/education/"&gt;HP University&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the only University in the country which has state wide coverage.He said that through this centre the students of national capital region area will be provided all facilities. He said that this &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Centre would be constructed on 850 sq. meters and this project will be completed by December, 2006&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/hp-cm-lays-foundation-stone-of-study.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113419940442098320</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-09T23:41:40.833-08:00</atom:updated><title>Rohtang Pass in Manali</title><description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rohtang pass&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is situated 51 km from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indiabook.com/travel/adventure/manali.html"&gt;Manali&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at an altitude of 3978 m (13400 ft), on the highway of Keylong. It is a gateway to Lahaul Valley. There is a beautiful Dashohar lake, left of the pass. It offers immense trekking oppurtunities.&lt;br /&gt;Here one sees the majesty of the mountains at its height and splendour. At the top of the Pass the air seems to glitter against the snow as you look down over herringboned ridges into the Lahaul Valley. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The pass is covered with snow for nearly nine months&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in the whole year.&lt;br /&gt;The pass is open from June to September each year. The pass normally opens for traffic after mid-June and officially closes in November. Regular bus services are available.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/rohtang-pass-in-manali.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113419679781001570</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-09T22:39:57.830-08:00</atom:updated><title>Government is under no pressure, CM</title><description>Chief Minister of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachal.biz"&gt;Himachal Pradesh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Virbhadra Singh has said that his &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Government was not under any pressure not to take action against Additional Director-General of&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Police Bhupinder Singh Thind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; if he was found guilty of charges against him.&lt;br /&gt;He also said that a CBI enquiry into the charges against the police officer was going on and the facts were yet to be ascertained. He maintained that the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Government had asked for an explanation from the officer after receiving the letter from the CBI&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Thind had alleged that some people were professionally against him and unnecessarily dragging his name into controversies.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/government-is-under-no-pressure-cm.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113410536769707526</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-08T21:16:07.716-08:00</atom:updated><title>Kalatop Khajjiar Sanctuary in Chamba</title><description>Tne sanctuary is located in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.123himachal.com/chamba/links.htm"&gt;Chamba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It is about 6kms from Dalhousie and 86kms from Pathankot. This sanctuary is rich in the species of different mammals like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Goral&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; Serow, Langur, Common, Himalyan yellow throated Marten, Barking Deer, Squirrel(Common Giant Flying), Jackal, Leopard&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blackbird&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Common Name), &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Turdus merula&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Scientific Name) are birds which are found in this sanctuary. Visitors can found Black bear also which can be encountered often in the area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;curious floating island&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in a small water body amidst an enchating meadow at khajjiar has become legendary scenery. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dense Deodar and Fir forests&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are places of solitude very close to Dalhousie town. To experience the bliss of solitude, stay at the Kalatop Forest Rest House.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.himachalonline.com/adventures/sanctuary1.htm"&gt;Himachal Sanctuary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/kalatop-khajjiar-sanctuary-in-chamba.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16799021.post-113410405862794788</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2005-12-08T20:54:18.640-08:00</atom:updated><title>Government will spent 2,000 crore in State(HP)</title><description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; said that the State Government had decided to continue with the tradition of holding Winter Session of the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opendirectory.in/Regional/Himachal_Pradesh/Localities/Dharamshala/"&gt;Dharamsala&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; beginning from the proposed session scheduled to be held from December 26 to 29, 2005 and had been a well considered plan of his Government.&lt;br /&gt;He revealed that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;about Rs. 2,000 crore were likely to spent over construction of bridges and roads in the State during coming two years&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and strengthen the road infrastructure in the State.&lt;br /&gt;He said that all out efforts would be made with the people participation to fight out the divisive forces to uphold the emotional integration of the State.</description><link>http://www.himachalonline.com/blog/2005/12/government-will-spent-2000-crore-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (megrisoft)</author></item></channel></rss>
