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Heavy downpour has thrown life out of gear in Himachal Pradesh while Dharamshala, a popular tourist destination, experienced cloudburst on Monday (July 12), resulting in a flood-like condition. Alarming videos of vehicles in crowded market getting washed away were doing the rounds of social media and TV news channels since morning.

Domestic boutique hotels and resorts – in Kashmir, Ladakh and Nainital – have reported a sudden boost from domestic bookings, saying that the offseason October-February period too looked pretty busy

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday proposed legalising cultivation of hemp to create employment and investment opportunities in the state

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur announced on Saturday (March 6) that the salaries of state MLAs will be paid in full from April 1 and the MLA local area development (MLALAD) fund will be fully restored. The state government had last year decided to cut 30 per cent salaries of its MLAs and suspend the MLALAD fund for two years to f...

Congress MLAs on Thursday tried to block Himachal Governor Bandaru Dattatraya and his cavalcade from leaving the assembly premises following his address, leading to suspension of five legislators from the House

Fearing an Uttarakhand-like catastrophe, residents of Lahaul-Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh have raised their voice against proposed hydel projects in the ecologically fragile Chenab and Chandra river basins, home to a large number of glaciers. At least eight gram panchayats, including Tandi, Rashil, Bardang, Miyar, Goshal and Jispa, in the district have vowed to oppose hydel projects.

Cold wave conditions have intensified in Himachal Pradesh after fresh snowfall in the state in the last 24 hours, the MeT department said on Saturday. Kothi and Gondla received 30 cm snowfall each, followed by Keylong 12 cm, Manali 12 cm, Kalpa 7.5 cm and Dalhousie 4 cm, Shimla MeT centre director Manmohan Singh said. Besides Berthien witness...

The Himachal Pradesh cabinet was expanded on Thursday (July 30) with the induction of three ministers, the first expansion of the Jai Ram Thakur-led government since it came to power in 2017.

Himachal Pradesh BJP president Rajeev Bindal resigned from his post on Wednesday (May 27) within four-and-a-half months of his appointment, saying he was doing so to ensure a proper investigation into the case of alleged corruption by a Health Department official. In a resignation letter sent to BJP president J P Nadda, Bindal said he was tender...

Hamirpur and Solan districts in Himachal Pradesh will continue with the coronavirus lockdown for a month after the current nationwide phase ends on May 31.

Himachal Pradesh as a quarantine destination? Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur's recent idea to promote the hill state as a place where people from elsewhere can spend their days in coronavirus quarantine has not gone down well with many.

When 30-year-old Sunil Kumar left Paroian Kalan village in Himachal Pradesh for West Bengal on March 21, he was filled with joy. In a couple of days, he was set to get married and his family was eager to welcome a new member from Kashipur in Purulia district, which is around 1,800 km far from Paroian Kalan. As many as 18 members, including Kumar...

Six people, including three of a family, who returned to Himachal Pradesh from Mumbai have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the states tally to 99, officials said on Wednesday (May 20). While five persons, including three women, tested COVID-19 positive in Kangra district, a man confirmed positive for the disease in Kullu district, they s...

Among handful of other states that do not have any active cases of the novel coronavirus, Manipur stands at the second place in the list, Chief Minister N Biren Singh said on Saturday (May 2).

About 140 stranded Kashmiri labourers left Shimla for Jammu and Kashmir on Friday (April 24) evening in six buses after the Himachal Pradesh government gave them permission amid the coronavirus lockdown.

A 37-year-old man, who tested negative for coronavirus, hanged self to death after allegedly facing “social boycott” by the villagers. The incident happened on Sunday morning in Himachal Pradesh’s Una district, reports said.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday (April 5) asked all Tablighi Jamaat members who had attended the group's congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin, a COVID-19 hotspot, to come forward for testing by 5 pm, failing which action will be taken against them.

The ruling BJP on Thursday (October 24) retained both Dharamshala and Pachhad seats in Himachal Pradesh where bypolls were held earlier this week. In Pachhad, Reena Kashyap of the BJP defeated her nearest rival and former minister Gangu Ram Musafir of the Congress by a margin of 2,742 votes. Rebel BJP candidate Dayal Pyari, who contested as a...

Himachal Pradesh is facing a debt burden of ₹49,096 crore, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur informed the state Assembly on Saturday (August 31).

A 22-year-old woman from Himachal Pradesh lost her life after a private clinic in Shimla district "wrongly" diagnosed her as HIV positive, which had caused her to go into coma and resulted in her death. A government hospital diagnosis found that she was not HIV positive. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Wednesday (August 28) ...