DHARAMSALA(Punjab News): Amritsar-based Wave Beverages, franchise bottling partner of Coca Cola in India, plans to create a bottled­ water unit with an investment of about Rs 25 crore in Himachal Pradesh. The company's president and managing director Gurdeep Singh Kandhari, said on Wednesday at Dharmasala in Himachal Pradesh that he had ...

DHARAMSALA: The state governments of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have cleared decks for installing aerial rope­ way linking Sikh's historic town, Anandpur Sahib to the religious shrine of Hindus at Naina Devi. The memorandum of understanding between the two states for the ropeway, which will reduce the travel time by ...

DHARAMSALA: It was a proud moment for women folk in the state when an all-women battalion of the India Reserve Battalion (IRB) presented an impressive march past in the dusty ground of the 2nd IRB at Sakoh village. Himachal Pradesh, on Friday, became the only state in north India to ...

DHARAMSALA: Tibetans marked the 50th anniversary of the democracy-in-exile here on Thursday. The Tibetan government-in-exile held a function at the main Tsuglakhang Buddhist temple to celebrate the setting up of the democratic government by the Dalai Lama after he escaped from Lhasa. Dalai Lama and Tibetan Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche were ...

DHARAMSALA: Four villagers were injured when a few armymen allegedly clashed with the residents of Khandori village in Kangra district bordering Pathankot over a trivial matter. According to the locals, an armyman who had come to the village market entered into an altercation with a local over unloading of sand near ...

DHARAMSALA: Chinks that began to show in the Bharatiya Janata Party soon after it took over the reigns of the state appears to be widening with Kangra MP Dr Rajan Shushant on Monday taking a bus to travel and get closer to the common man. "Leaders should leave air­ conditioned rooms ...

DHARAMSALA: Ahead of his planned meeting with United States President Barack Obama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama has expressed concern over the situation inside China-controlled Tibet calling it "critical". The Dalai Lama on Sunday addressed hundreds of Tibetan exiles who gathered at Tsuglagakhang -main Buddhist temple here to offer ...

DHARAMSALA: Amid reports of more terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army has expressed fears of a spillover of terrorist activities in Himachal Pradesh. The Army authorities have stressed on the need to intensify security along the terror­ist-infested porous border with J&K. Army sources told Hindustan Times that top Army ...