Pooja Kumari, pradhan of Bhoranj gram panchayat, said elders always warned the younger generation against celebrating the festival as the family which makes special dishes on the occasion faces mishaps in the family.
While Congress party is facing rebellion in Arki and Fatehpur assembly segments, the ruling BJP may face stiff challenge in Fatehpur and Jubbal Kotkhai assembly segments.
The stakes are for ruling BJP as Mandi district is the home turf of Thakur and in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Ramswaroop Sharma had won by record margin of over 4 lakh votes.
A rising star in the HP Congress, Agnihotri is now leading the party in the HP Assembly as Leader of the Opposition.
Soma Devi, a resident of Ghindi village in Parkharer panchayat, hasn’t let her daughter, Himani, along with two others enter the village to avoid any chance of Coronavirus infection.
Besides the gold and silver reserves, these temples have around Rs 400 crore in cash and banks as fixed deposits.
Concerned over the issue as the rural landscape is getting littered with plastic waste, State Rural Development department is training Panchayati Raj institutions (PRIs) representatives to adopt sustainable models to recycle the waste and overcome the growing problem.
Director General of Police S R Mardi said though the number of road accidents had reduced by 7 percent in Himachal, the cops would adopt new initiative of Educating, Engineering and Enforcement (EEE) to save more lives.
The Mandi district police have started the campaign with the ulterior motive of free the youth from drug menace, apart from taking strict action against drug peddling.
Forest Minister Govind Thakur said a pair of lions from Gujarat has been brought to the zoo and at present, the department is completing all the formalities before they are released into the enclosure at the zoo.
This was stated by Forest Minister Govind Singh Thakur during one day workshop on Human-Wildlife Conflict (Monkeys) in Himachal Pradesh for Shimla, Dharamshala Municipal Corporations, all Nagar Panchayats and Nagar Parishads of the state.
The experts, Dr HV Acharya and Hemangi Shah, both assistant directors in forensic science labs based in Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat had told a CBI court at Chandigarh that as per their observation, the crime was committed by more than one person.
The high voltage campaigning for bypolls witnessed door-to-door campaigning along with rallies by big leaders of both the party in the two assembly constituencies.
In the bypolls that were held for 28 seats since 1952, the ruling party had won 16 seats and lost 12 seats.
But the rebellion of BJP leader Rakesh Chaudhary, an OBC leader who is contesting bypolls as an independent candidate, is giving both the party scare ahead of voting on 21 October.
