New home for Asian Elephant
The long sojourn of a herd of elephants in the state’s Simbalwara sanctuary and the Kalesar National Park in adjoining Haryana over the past year has encouraged wildlife authorities to join forces work to make the tuskers permanent residents.

Modernity: Boon or bane?
Global Warming? Right now, here above Manali in the upper Beas Valley, it seems as though the new ice age has started! Yesterday was sunny and some of the chill of May dissipated; the night was brilliant with the moon etching the mountains covered by late snow.

Setting records in failure For the first time in the history of Sirmour parents came on the roads to fight against the poor academic results of government schools and save the future of their wards. This year the performance of the board classes of government schools in the district were shocking with zero or below ten percent results. Residents of Sirmour agitate against poor academic results in the board classes and demand strict action

Beauty with brains
Not willing to settle merely for a high profile corporate lawyer life, she wants to delve into anything and everywhere right from painting, sports, modelling and penning poetry.

vignettes When Shimla sizzled Amrita Sher-Gil is making news again. Her Village Scene was sold for Rs 6.9 crore in New Delhi last March; she was the inspiration for the character of the female painter in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh and Navina Sundaram, her niece and a journalist, produced a film Amrita Sher-Gil: The Family Album that recently ran in theatres.
Amrita Sher-Gil came to Shimla as an awkward eight-year-old with a squint. An operation and a few years later, her liberated lifestyle caused a stir in the fashionable summer capital of the Raj .— Photo by S. Chandan

VLSI experts meet at NIT
The national conference DTVC - 2007 organised by the department of electronic and communication engineering (ECE) at NIT, Hamirpur, was an extraordinary event. Many eminent academicians presented their papers on new areas of research in this field.

Lessons in conservation The Society for Environmental and Rural Awakening and Honeybee Network jointly organised a contest for students in IX-XII classes in Kangra district last week. The basic aim behind the contest was to inculcate ecological knowledge among the students and encourage them to learn about the traditional uses of local plants from elders in their family and community.
Schoolkids learn about the traditional uses of local plants and conservation of resources through an activity-based contest. — Tribune photo

SHIMLA DIARY
‘Political’ holiday
It is the desire to spend some quiet moments away from the heat and the schedule of daily hectic professional lives that brings in a large number of prominent personalities to Shimla. Be it the daughter of Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh or astute politicians like former Haryana chief minister, Bhajan Lal, they all chose Shimla to spend some time in the beautiful environs of the town.

Curb femicide: Jaswal
District and Sessions Judge A.S. Jaswal has exhorted women to come forward and take initiative to protect their rights and also to spread awakening among society particularly against destruction of female foeticide.

Slow and steady?
The painstaking restoration and conservation work is no doubt to save one of the most breathtaking and old British time structure, the Gaiety Theatre but the slow pace of work has become a bane for the locals.