Three arrested with over 2 Kgs of contraband Charas
byShimla: Police arrested one person for possessing over 1 Kg of contraband charas in the city here today. “Suresh Thakur, a resident belonging to…
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Majority of ‘disappeared persons’ in Kashmir innocent: Study
bySrinagar: A study on families of disappeared persons (DPs) in Jammu and Kashmir has thrown up some startling data: more than 72 percent of those…
Ponty killing gets murkier
byDehradun : Former chairman of the Uttarakhand Minorities Commission, Sukhdev Singh Namdhari has been sent on five days police remand in his alleged involvement…
Tribunal stops Himachal project in forests
byShimla: In a setback to Asian Development Bank funded state-run hydropower project in Himachal Pradesh, a judicial panel hearing environment-related cases has stopped project…
Accident in Himachal has 11 dead, 20 injured
byShimla: Eleven people were killed and another 20 injured when an overloaded small multipurpose utility vehicle lost control in the interiors of Sirmaur district…
Himachal poll results haunt Congress – daggers out in party
byShimla: Edgy about the results of the November 4 assembly poll, daggers are out in the Congress party over sabotage and siding with the…
Panchayat empowerment in Jammu & Kashmir
byEmpowering Panchayats could be Autonomy for all As the ruling and principal opposition parties fan out to mobilise support of the elected village representatives…
Elephants paying back man in same coin in Uttarakhand
byDehra Dun: For decades the planners cared a fig about the migration routes of the elephants and developmental works, in the form of road,…
Colonial style furniture to be junked as Himachal babus to go for corporate makeover
byShimla: A government bureaucracy out to refurbish its image is all prepared to shell out Rs 18 crore of public exchequer money for a…
High Court to the rescue of Christian cemetery
byShimla: Encroachment of a Christian Cemetery that has been declared part of heritage drew the ire of the Himachal High Court with a double…