Shimla: While the overall child sex ratio has declined in India, Himachal Pradesh's Lahaul and Spiti district has set an example with 1,013 females per 1,000 males in the 0-6 age group - the highest in the country at the district level. Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh is the district with the second highest child sex ratio at 1,005, according to provisional data for Census 2011 released by Registrar General of...
12:36 PM, Apr 01, 2011
Shimla: Forty-one people, including 32 members of a marriage party, were killed and seven others were injured in two separate accidents in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, police said on Thursday. A canter carrying members of a marriage party from Chaura to Shekhpur plunged into a 300-feet deep gorge near Shekhpur at 12.30 AM last night, killing 32 people. While 30 people died on the spot, two persons succumbed to...
09:38 AM, Mar 03, 2011
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh government on Tuesday initiated the move to attach the property of Gyuto monastery of the 17th Karmapa Lama, Ugyen Trinley Dorje, at Sidhbari. The Karmapa Lama has been accused of having links with China after foreign currency worth crores was recovered from the Gyuto monastery. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has already said that the Karmapa had not yet been giben a clean chit following...
01:46 PM, Feb 15, 2011
The snow-clad mountains in Kufri are drawing more tourists with temperatures having fallen sharply. ...
02:21 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Dharamsala: Ming Chung Dorjee who is a Tibetan refugee is ineligible to own land in India, according to the law. But CNN-IBN has accessed documents to prove that he assumed the identity of an Indian to get land in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. He allegedly managed this by getting government papers by misrepresenting facts. Dorjee's moves, it seems has been adopted by some other Tibetans as well, like Lama Bagdor who...
07:37 AM, Feb 14, 2011
Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Saturday said Tibetan religious leader the Karmapa had not yet got a clean chit following the discovery of unaccounted money from him. Investigations are still on into the nearly Rs 70 million worth of foreign and Indian currency recovered from his monastery near here. Dhumal's remarks came a day after Chief Secretary Rajwant Sandhu gave the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje,...
01:18 PM, Feb 12, 2011
Dharamsala: The dignity and sanctity of the Gyuto Monastery should be maintained while conducting investigation into recovery of foreign currency worth over Rs 7.5 crore from the transit home of the Karmapa, Union Minister Virbhadra Singh today said. He also demanded a strict probe in other benami land cases of Tibetans and a thorough investigation in the benami land deals by outsiders in the state. Reacting to the Karmapa issue,...
04:34 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh Police on Thursday arrested a couple in New Delhi in connection with seizure of Rs 1 crore from two people that was meant as part-payment by the Karmapa's trust to buy land in Kangra district, police said. "The couple, Karma Thapa and his wife Rinzin, was charged with arranging money for the monastery. They were interrogated for the past three days and were arrested from Majnoo-Ka-Tila in...
10:51 AM, Feb 04, 2011
Himachal Pradesh Director General of Police DS Minhas says the Karmapa Lama Ugyen Trinley Dorje has Chinese links and his aides have a criminal past. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Minhas says that Karmapa and his aides have been buying properties in India even though as Tibetans refugees they cannot do so legally. CNN-IBN: There are lot of controversies about the Karmapa and that he has links with China. he is...
01:24 PM, Feb 02, 2011
Dharamsala: The Enforcement Directorate questioned Karmapa Lama in Dharamsala in connection with the foreign currency recovered from his office. Enforcement Directorate officials reached Karmapa's monastery on Tuesday afternoon to question him. He was grilled for over five hours but reportedly insisted that he had no idea where the money recovered from his office came from. Foreign currency worth Rs 7 crore was recovered from Karmapa's office last week. Raids were...
01:25 PM, Feb 01, 2011
Dharamsala: The police on Sunday went to Gyuto monastery in Dharamsala to question Tibetan spiritual leader Karmapa Lama over the source of the huge amounts of cash, including Chinese currency, seized from the monastery. This follows the interrogation of other accused in the case. Police claim that there is a direct link between the money recovered and property deals in Himachal Pradesh and other states. Five people including a hotelier...
05:10 PM, Jan 30, 2011
Dharamsala: A day after police questioned Tibetan leader Karmapa Lama, ADGP SR Mardi told CNN-IBN that raids were conducted across Dharamsala and five people including Manager of Ambala based Corporation Bank DK Dhar and Dharamsala based hotelier KP Bharadwaj, from whose car Rs 1 crore seized were arrested by the Himachal Pradesh police. Earlier the Dalai Lama spoke in support of Karmapa calling him a revered leader. Foreign currency worth...
11:14 AM, Jan 30, 2011
New Delhi: On the controversy surrounding the Karmapa Lama, the Finance Ministry has asked for a report from the Himachal Pradesh government. While the Karmapa was questioned by a three member team of Himachal police, his treasurer Shakti Lama has been sent to police custody till February 5. His secretary's house which was sealed was searched by the police on Saturday. Currency worth Rs 6 crore has been seized out...
09:19 PM, Jan 29, 2011
Dharamsala: A team of Himachal Pradesh Police has questioned 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorjee, popularly known as Karmapa Lama, about the huge sum of foreign currency recovered during a raid at his office in Dharamsala. The Karmapa Lama was questioned by a three-member police team. During his questioning Karmapa was aided by a translator as he speaks only Chinese. Karmapa reportedly feigned ignorance about the source of money. Sources say...
02:28 PM, Jan 29, 2011
Dharamsala: Huge amount of foreign currency was seized during raids at a transit home of 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje at Sidhbari near Dharamsala on Thursday. ADGP (Law and Order) S R Mardi said the exact amount of currency notes of different countries recovered during the raids at Gyuto Monastery, 6 km from here, will be known after counting them. A close aide of Kaprmapa, Rabjaychojan alias Shakti Lama, was...
06:13 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Shimla If you are keen for some adventure in the hills of Himachal Pradesh in the winter snow, here are a few tips: 1.Make sure your trip is planned well in advance. Check on general road conditions and confirm whether the high mountain passes are open. 2. Most of the picturesque destinations in Kinnaur, Chamba, Lahaul and Spiti and Kullu districts are at high altitudes. During winter and monsoon, you...
11:30 AM, Jan 05, 2011
Keylong, Himachal Pradesh: What would you do if you were stuck in a snow- covered place and cut off from the rest of the world for five months? Lament? But this landlocked Himachal Pradesh town makes the most of it by holding celebrations, gambling, knitting, drinking and making merry! Heavy snowfall high up the Himalayan slopes in late December has snapped road connectivity to Keylong and its nearby villages in...
12:32 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Rekong Peo: Retired Professor Vidya Bhaskar, settled in Rekong Peo, headquarters of Kinnaur District in upper Himachal Pradesh is living in fear. The mountain he lives on has become unstable. Big cracks have spontaneously begun to sprout up like this small rivulet that wasn't there a few months ago. Bhaskar is worried that a new crack may emerge in the shifting mountain and rip right though his house. Bhaskar is...
09:37 AM, Jan 02, 2011
Shimla: About 100 tourists from Bengal and Maharshtra are stranded in the Kalpa and Kinnaur regions of Himachal Pradesh. They have been stuck there over the last four days because of heavy snowfall and roadblocks. It has been raining heavily in most parts of Himachal over the past few days. Snow has blocked several roads in the higher reaches. The extreme weather conditions are making it difficult for authorities to...
10:23 AM, Dec 31, 2010
Shimla: Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, masquerading as labourers, were arrested by the Himachal Pradesh Police in Kotla area in Kangra district of the hill state in the wee hours today. The two, hailing from Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, were identified as Jameed Ahmed, aged 35 years, and 20-year-old Gulam Nabi, ADGP (CID) ID Bhandari said. The two ultras were posing as labourers when they were caught by...
08:11 PM, Dec 15, 2010
