Heavy rain warning as Shrikhand Mahadev pilgrimage in Himachal gets underway
byShimla: Lest religious tourism, a bane for the Uttarakhand tragedy, finds pilgrims trapped in foul weather, met officials have sounded out a warning of…
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Himachal to start apple procurement from July 22
byShimla: 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…
Himachal BJP leader in police net over old scam
byShimla: 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 gets relief from rains
byShimla: Rains have abated in Himachal Pradesh after battering the state for four days, triggering landslides and snapping road links in many areas, officials here…
Quake rocks Himachal
byShimla: Himachal Pradesh was rocked by a moderate intensity earthquake yesterday evening, an official said. There was no loss of life. Tremors of the magnitude-5…
Freight hike to hit apple growers of Himachal
byShimla: As the apple harvest is expected to be a bounty one this year in Himachal Pradesh, which is one the country’s leading fruit…
Shimla to have ropeway to tackle heavy traffic
byShimla: To overcome Shimla’s chronic problem of traffic congestion, the Himachal Pradesh government has decided to go for a multi-million ropeway project, an official said…
Heavy rains continue in Himachal, rivers in spate
byShimla: The hills of Himachal Pradesh continued to experience moderate to heavy rains today and all the rivers and their tributaries were in spate, officials…
Himachal to partially revive British-era Hindustan-Tibet road
byShimla: It once connected Rampur, the seat of the erstwhile princely state of Bushair which was a major entrepot, to the Tibet border. Over the…