Haryana districts added to NCR, credit game begins
Chandigarh: It may not reflect on their individual CVs but top Congress leaders in Haryana have been competing to claim credit for the recent inclusion…
Tributes to 1931 martyrs amid separatist shutdown in Srinagar
Srinagar: A shutdown called by the separatists and selective restrictions by the authorities marked Martyrs’ Day in Srinagar Saturday, as floral tributes were paid to…
Students use space camera to study Uttarakhand disaster
New Delhi: A total of 300 school students studied the earth’s surface as seen from space, including the flood-ravaged state of Uttarakhand, as part of…
Pran: One of the most loved villains of Bollywood bids adieu
Mumbai: He was truly what legends are made of – a natural talent and a thorough professional with a versatility. Actor Pran left for his…
Himachal to start apple procurement from July 22
Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh government will start procurement of apples, the state’s main horticulture crop, under the market intervention scheme (MIS) from this month, an…
Debris in Kedarnath not cleared yet: NDMA
New Delhi: Nearly a month after a flash flood deposited nearly a 10-foot-high mound of debris around Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand, not much progress has…
Himachal BJP leader in police net over old scam
Shimla: History is being repeated in Himachal Pradesh as police have once again booked a top politician in a nearly one-and-a-half-decade-old corruption case. This week…
Himachal boy anointed Ladakh monastery’s head
Keylong (Himachal Pradesh): A two-and-a-half-year-old boy from this remote town in Lahaul Valley has been anointed the 15th head of the famous Tagna monastery near…
Built for 500,000, Chandigarh caps future population at 1.6 million
Chandigarh: Its founding architects, especially its master planner Le Corbusier, had built Chandigarh for a population of just 500,000 in the 1950s. Over six decades…
Six die in Nainital landslide
Dehradun: Six people were killed in a landslide in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district, officials said. The landslide came after a heavy spell of rains in Bheemal…