Himachal Pradesh News

Shimla, April 16: It's startling but true. In a state with 82.8 percent literacy, 20 per cent of Class 3 students in Himachal Pradesh's government schools cannot identify alphabets or numbers. Moreover, 74 per cent of eighth standard students don't have ...

Shimla, April 6: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today stressed the need for the value-based and job-oriented education in the state, saying his government was committed to provide quality education to all at their doorsteps. Addressing a public meeting at ...

March 30, 2015: The Doon School, India's pre-eminent boarding school and alma mater of stalwarts like Rajiv Gandhi and Amitav Ghosh amongst many others has announced its Residential Summer Doon Leadership Programme from 1st June to 15th June, 2015 at The ...

Shimla, March 24: As many as 943 government primary schools in Himachal Pradesh have only one teacher each while 1,136 schools with less than 10 students have one to four teachers, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh informed the Assembly today. Out ...

Himachal Pradesh, March 15: President Pranab Mukherjee said that institutions of higher learning must adopt five villages each, based on the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. Educational institutions must take greater responsibility for overall development, said the president in a speech ...

Himachal Pradesh, March 16: Himachal Pradesh Governor Kalyan Singh stressed upon the need for intensive research to develop new technologies in agriculture, power, environment and information technology to ensure development. Addressing the students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) ...

Himachal Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (HPBSE) has given the time table for class 12 board exam, for the year 2015. Here you will find the date sheet of class 12 time table. The exam is scheduled from March 3rd, ...

Himachal Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (HPBSE) has given the time table for class 10 board exam, for the year 2015. Here you will find the date sheet of class 10 time table.  The exam is scheduled from March 4th, ...

Dharamsala, February 12: The state government would ensure that every government school have at least one teacher each for physical training and music, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said here Thursday. Addressing 'Samman Samaroh', a felicitation ceremony to honour ...

The Himachal Pradesh state government has decided to hold a separate engineering entrance exam for admission to engineering courses in private engineering colleges across Himachal pradesh. The Himachal Pradesh Technical University (HPTU) would be the conducting body for the entrance ...

Shimla, February 2: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday condemned the Himachal Pradesh government's decision to conduct a separate entrance test for admission to the private engineering colleges. Himachal Pradesh Technical University in Hamirpur will hold this entrance test ...

Shimla, Jan 27: Himachal Pradesh Technical University has clarified that the decision of the government to hold separate entrance test for admissions to engineering courses would not undermine the merit of All India JEE (Joint entrance examination) and merit of JEE ...

Shimla, December 24: A bench of Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan has issued notice to the chief secretary and the principal secretary (education) of Himachal Pradesh regarding the status of special facilities for blind students. ...

Shimla, November 21: In a major relief to the visually impaired and physically challenged, the Himachal Pradesh University in Shimla has allowed them to engage a writer irrespective of his qualification in the exams, an official said Thursday. Vice ...