Graduates not eligible for sweeper job!

Shimla, Graduation may not be a ticket for getting a job for cleaning Shimla’s streets.

The Shimla Municipal Corporation has rejected the candidature of seven applicants. They were graduates but had no experience of sweeping, corporation official Sonam Negi told IANS.Read More................Graduates not eligible for sweeper job!

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Catch a monkey, win Rs.500

Shimla, The Himachal Pradesh government is offering Rs.500 for every monkey that is trapped. And officials said the hill state has an estimated 300,000 monkeys.
Desperate to overcome the monkey invasion, the government Tuesday decided to sterilize 200,000 monkeys by June 30 next year. Read More................Catch a monkey, win Rs.500

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Barking dogs attract leopards from wild

Shimla: The elusive, shy leopard avoids humans but has a special affinity for dogs. The reason? The dog is an easy prey and the feline relishes its meat. This is the reason why the wildcat is increasingly straying into human habitation. It is enticed by the barking of canines. Read More................Barking dogs attract leopards from wild

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Badminton champion told to clean utensils

Shimla - A badminton champion, studying in class 12 of a government school in Sirmau district of Himachal Pradesh, was asked to clean utensils at the school's annual function presided over by state Health Minister Rajeev Bindal.

Aarzoo Thakur, a student of Government Senior Secondary School at Dadahu in Sirmaur and gold medallist at the National Women Festival - 2010 held in Agra, attended the function Tuesday, where she and a couple of other students were later asked to wash utensils, her family said.

'It's a high disregard for a champion,' her father Inder Singh Thakur told IANS Thursday over phone. Read More................Badminton champion told to clean utensils in Himachal

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Unique Ritual: Pelting Stones to Appease Goddess

Shimla – A day after the festival of lights, a unique stone pelting fair was organised Saturday as part of an annual ritual in the former princely state of Dhami in Himachal Pradesh.

In local parlance it is known as ‘pattharon ka mela’ (fair of stones). During the fair, male adults gathered in a ground and pelted each other with small stones in Dhami village, some 40 km from Himachal Pradesh’s capital Shimla.

‘More than 500 people gathered in the village this (Saturday) noon for the ritual. People who got injured and bled, smeared the forehead of Goddess Kali (a deity in a temple) with their blood,’ fair organiser Jagdeep Singh told IANS. Read More................Unique Himachal ritual: Pelting stones to appease goddess

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Man bitten by Bear at Zoo

While at Zoo, beware of animals. A man at a zoo teasing a bear had to pay dearly as the furious animal reacted by biting his hand.

Caretakers at the zoo in Shimla in Himachal Pradesh state of India said that Mahmood, the visitor, put his hand through the cage and repeatedly touched the sloth bear.

Irritated, the bear held the man's hand in his jaws and let go only after the man screamed in pain. The bleeding man was rushed to a hospital and treated with 11 stitches.

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Indian Monkeys to wear Earrings

Interesting it may sound but it's true. Monkeys may sport earrings in the summer capital of the British Raj in India - Shimla in Himachal Pradesh State of India!!!!!!!!!! Wanna know why wildlife officials in Shimla want monkeys to wear Earrings............Read Here.........Earrings for marauding Indian monkeys

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