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- July 20th- Mandi- Medical experts have expressed their concern over the increasing menace of fake drugs that have entered the markets.
- June 11th- Chamba- Helipad for Manimahesh.
- June 11th- Bilaspur- Himachal to be made herbal state.
- June 1st- Nurpur- Goods worth lakhs destroyed in fire.
- May 31st- National Highway 72 at Paonta Sahib -Illegal mining poses threat to bridge.
- May 31st- Tobacco product shops violating norms; selling tobacoo to 18 below kids.
- May 30th- Shimla to host SAFMA meeting.
- May 30th- G.R.Musafir laid the foundation stone of a Rs 1.23 crore Sarsu Mahallana water supply scheme
- May 30th- The Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Industrial Association (BBNIA) planning to set Baddi green.
- May 30th- The Congress suspended former minister Vijay Joshi for anti-party activities.
- Himachal State Government relaxes law against the killing of wild boars.
- Shimla, 21 March 2007- Recently the Himachal Pradesh state government has decided to ease its law against killing the wild boars and even consuming its meat. Now a person can kill up to ten boars in the state.
- Himachal skiers won 3 titles
- Mandi, 16 March 2007- Himachal skiers won 3 skiing titles— (i)slalom, (ii)giant slalom and (iii)best all-rounder in alpine skiing in the 5 days National Winter Games that were held at Auli in Uttarakhand on 16 March.
- Airtel hits 5 lakhs mark in Himachal Pradesh
- Shimla, 13 March 2007- Bharti Airtel had now became the first mobile operator in the state to cross the five lakhs customer mark.
As per the figures released by the Cellular Operators Association of India, Airtel in Himachal on 28 February 2007 had up to 504,042 customers.
- Civic reception to C.M. by Tibetan Government in exile
- December 30, 2006: Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister said that Himachal Pradesh had age old cultural bond and trade ties with Tibet. He was addressing the Parliamentarians of the Tibetan Government in Exile at Dharamsala at the civic reception organized by them in his honour.
- More parking lots to be developed in Shimla[1]
- December 24, 2006: Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister, said that suitable locations were being identified to develop more parking lots in the capital town of Shimla for safety and relief of road congestion.
- Naina Devi Sub-Tehsil would be upgraded to full fledged Tehsil in Bilaspur.
- 24rd, January,2007: Rs.48 crore are being spent on construction of 70 Science Labs in Senior Secondary Schools of the State during current financial year.