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March 27, 2026, 02:43 PM - 4 min read
The Himcare Scheme echoed in the State Assembly on Friday, with the opposition BJP accusing Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu of trying to defame the scheme, launched by the previous BJP government for the benefit of the common people in Himachal Pradesh, as a pretext to stop it.
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March 24, 2026, 03:23 PM - 3 min read
The Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed an amendment to the Value Added Tax (VAT) Act, allowing the state government to impose a cess of up to ₹5 per litre on petrol and diesel, a move that sparked intense debate between the ruling side and the Opposition in Shimla on Tuesday.
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March 17, 2026, 05:13 PM - 4 min read
The session may turn stormy, as the opposition BJP is aggressively preparing to corner the Congress government over alleged financial mismanagement and unfulfilled announcements made in the previous three budgets presented by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, who holds the finance portfolio also.
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December 4, 2025, 06:29 PM - 3 min read
The Himachal Pradesh Municipal Corporation (2nd Amendment Bill), 2025, which extends their tenure from two-and-a-half years to five, was taken up for discussion and cleared by voice vote. This happened in the absence of opposition members in the House.
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November 28, 2025, 06:40 PM - 2 min read
Members of both parties raised slogans against each other, creating a tense and charged atmosphere even before the House began its proceedings.
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November 27, 2025, 05:05 PM - 3 min read
The opposition MLAs entered the House carrying placards and raising slogans against the government on the second day of the 10-day Winter session of the Himachal assembly.
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November 25, 2025, 06:47 PM - 4 min read
BJP has already planned a protest rally against the government, which it says has fooled people with its poll guarantees to come into power, on December 4.
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November 19, 2025, 06:22 PM - 3 min read
The winter session of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly will be organised from November 26 to December 5 at Tapovan in Dharamsala. The session will include eight sittings, spread across the 10-day schedule.
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October 17, 2025, 01:00 PM - 3 min read
A key feature of the new amendment is that it allows an automatic increase in the salaries and allowances of MLAs every five years, linked to the cost inflation index under the Income Tax Act, 1961. This will remove the need to bring new amendments each time salaries are revised for the Chief Minister, ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and MLAs.
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September 6, 2024, 06:47 PM - 2 min read
Upon receiving information, the police reached the spot and rushed the victims to the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Bilaspur. Dhakad was declared dead on arrival. The rest are undergoing treatment, they added.
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September 5, 2024, 07:16 PM - 3 min read
The card’s interoperability allows it to be used in other public transport systems, including the Delhi Metro, Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), Haryana Roadways and Mumbai’s BEST buses. Users from these networks will also be able to use their cards on HRTC buses, he added.
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September 3, 2024, 04:46 PM - 3 min read
Jai Ram Thakur said the state government had been blaming the Central government for not releasing funds. “This is wrong as the Centre has been giving the state its due continuously. The whole country is looking at the model adopted by the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh,” he said.
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