Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, September 29 Thousands of tonnes of apples purchased by the Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing and Processing Corporation (HPMC) are reportedly rotting along roadsides, raising concerns among orchardists about pending payments. Despite the monsoon ending, the apple season remains disorganised. Prices have fallen sharply in markets, while fruit […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, September 27 The Himachal Pradesh government has decided that no new recruitments in the Jal Shakti Department will be made through contractors but will carry out hiring directly, Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri said on Saturday. At a review meeting in Shimla, Agnihotri said that the department is […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, September 26 “The repayment capacity of farmers, MSMEs and other borrowers has been severely affected by the recent disaster, and banks must step in to provide relief,” Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary Prabodh Saxena said on Friday. He was speaking at a state-level bankers’ committee meeting in Shimla, convened […]
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The North News New Delhi, September 26 The Union government has released the 21st instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme, providing over ₹540 crore in direct transfers to farmers in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made the announcement on Friday through video conference, stressing that […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, September 26 Nearly 8,000 retired employees of the Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) say they have not received their pensions for September, despite the month drawing to a close. The pensioners, many of them elderly, staged a protest in Shimla accusing the state government of neglect. They said […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, September 25 Families of Yug Gupta, the child whose abduction and killing in 2016 shocked Himachal Pradesh, have staged fresh protests in Shimla after the state High Court commuted the death sentences of two convicts to life imprisonment and acquitted a third. On Tuesday, relatives and supporters marched […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, September 25 A 24-year-old pregnant woman was found dead just a day before her wedding in Una district of Himachal Pradesh. The partially burnt body of the woman, identified as Anshika from Bairiyan in Una, was discovered about 500 metres from her home yesterday. The Police said she […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, September 24 The southwest monsoon has begun withdrawing from Himachal Pradesh, with eight districts seeing its exit on Tuesday, according to the Meteorological Centre in Shimla. Chamba, Kangra, Una, Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Solan, Sirmaur and Mandi are the first districts where the season has officially ended. The weather office […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, September 24 The Congress party has launched a sharp attack on the central government over recent announcements of Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms. Naresh Chauhan, Principal Media advisor to Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of misleading the […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, September 23 The Himachal Pradesh High Court has commuted the death sentences of two men convicted in the 2014 abduction and killing of four-year-old Yug Gupta to life imprisonment, sparking anger among the victim’s family. The high court overturned a lower court’s ruling that had sentenced three men […]
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