Shimla, Dec 5 (IANS) Madhu Sood of the Congress was Saturday elected mayor of the Shimla Municipal Corporation, a day after the divided Congress councillors failed to come to a consensus over the names of the mayor and deputy mayor.
In the 25-member house, the Congress has 15 councillors, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and [...]
New Delhi, Nov. 16 (ANI): Mining major NMDC and Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a limestone project at Arki in Himachal Pradesh.
The proposed Rs. 260 crore joint venture will have 50:50 equity participation of the two companies.
NMDC [...]
Kolkata, Nov 14 (IANS) Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Saturday said India’s annual steel production would touch 124 millions tonnes by 2011-12.
‘This year (2009-10), production would be more than 60 million tonnes, up from 56 million tonnes last year,’ Singh said at a press briefing here after attending the Metals Minerals Manufacturing Expo 2009.
According to the [...]
Shimla, Nov 10 (IANS) The Congress bagged one of the two Himachal Pradesh assembly by-election seats Tuesday but that seemed scant compensation for its humiliating defeat in Rohru, always considered a stronghold of former chief minister and union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh.
BJP’s Khushi Ram Balnatah, who had lost the elections four times against Virbhadra Singh, [...]
Rohru (Himachal Pradesh), Nov 5 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sees its first real opportunity to wrest this pocket borough of union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh in Saturday’s by-election, thanks to infighting in his Congress party. In the past two decades Rohru voters have sent the former chief minister to the state [...]
Shimla, Oct 31 (IANS) Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Saturday started the Congress party’s election campaign in Himachal Pradesh’s Jawali constituency, ahead of the by-elections next week.
The former chief minister had been in Rohru, the other constituency where by-elections will be held Nov 7.
Virbhadra Singh, who has been chief minister five times, said the party was [...]
Shimla, Oct 28 (IANS) The Congress party has deputed a leader from Punjab to end bickering among senior leaders of Himachal Pradesh ahead of the assembly by-elections slated for Nov 7.
Three veterans – Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh, legislative party chief Vidya Stokes and state unit president Kaul Singh Thakur – have been caught in a [...]
Shimla, Oct 26 (IANS) Agitated over the denial of a ticket to Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh’s wife for the Himachal Pradesh by-elections, some activists of the Congress party Monday pushed and jostled state party president Kaul Singh Thakur, party sources said. Thakur, however, denied the incident.
Virbhadra Singh and Thakur Monday started their election campaigning [...]
Shimla, Oct 26 (IANS) Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Monday launched the Congress party’s election campaign in Himachal Pradesh for the Nov 7 by-elections to two assembly seats, while saying he should not be blamed if the party nominees did not win. He is upset because his wife was not nominated from one of the seats.
‘I [...]
Shimla, Oct 25 (IANS) Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Sunday said his wife was denied a Congress ticket for Himachal Pradesh assembly by-poll Nov 7 because the party has decided to move away from dynasty politics.
‘I don’t know, but I was told that my wife (Pratibha Singh) was not given ticket due a new principle [...]
Shimla, Oct 19 (IANS) Union ministers Virbhadra Singh and Anand Sharma will campaign for the Himachal Pradesh by-elections slated for Nov 7, a Congress leader said Monday.
‘Virbhadra Singh and Anand Sharma are members of the state campaign committee for by-elections to the Rohru and Jawali constituencies. They will campaign extensively in both the constituencies,’ state [...]
Shimla, Oct 16 (IANS) Ending days of speculation, the Congress party finally Friday announced its candidates for the Himachal Oradesh assembly bye-elections from the Rohru and Jawali constituencies.
‘Manjit Singh Thakur and Sujan Singh Pathania are the Congress candidates from Rohru and Jawali, respectively. Their names were cleared by the party high command [...]
Shimla, Oct 16 (IANS) Pratibha Singh, wife of Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Friday said she will not contest the assembly by-elections in Himachal Pradesh Nov 7. There has been speculation that the Congress party would nominate some other candidate from Rohru constituency.
‘I have decided not to contest the by-election from Rohru due to some personal [...]
Shimla, Oct 8 (IANS) Two women are hoping to make it a family affair by contesting for two Himachal Pradesh assembly seats that were vacated by their husbands who are now Lok Sabha MPs.
Pratibha Singh, wife of former Congress Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, is eyeing the ticket for the Rohru seat whereas Sudha Sushant, wife [...]
Shimla, Sep 26 (IANS) Political activity in Himachal Pradesh has picked up ahead of by-elections to two assembly seats.
The two main political parties in the state – the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress – have started wooing the electorates of the Rohru and Jawali (Fatehgarh post delimitation) constituencies.
Rohru and Jawali were [...]
Shimla, Sep 22 (IANS) Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Tuesday sent a legal notice to Himachal Pradesh Director General of Police (Vigilance) D.S. Manhas, asking him why he has given publicity to cases against him and his wife though it is still at the investigation stage.
The cases against Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh were registered [...]
Shimla, Sep 22 (IANS) Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Tuesday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into police in Himachal Pradesh giving a clean chit to all the accused in an alleged high-profile call girl racket.
‘The state government has hushed up the matter as senior functionaries of the ruling (Bharatiya Janata Party) party [...]
