Paragliding activities at Bir-Billing will resume from September 16 after a break of two months. A complete ban was imposed on paragliding in July with the onset of the monsoon to avoid mishaps.

After recent cloud burst, flash floods, landslides and sinking of hills in the state, various environmental groups have urged Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to come out with a new environmental ...

Several vehicles were buried under debris and crops were damaged due to a cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur district in the early hours of Saturday, officials said. No casualty was reported in ...

The prolonged and severe monsoons, resulting in road blockades and rotting crops, have caused the prices of most vegetables to skyrocket. In fact, exotic vegetables from Lahaul were taken by road to ...

Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu yesterday virtually inaugurated a state-of-the-art robotic surgery unit at Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College at Tanda in Kangra district. It is the ...

Shimla city is losing its touch and culture of walking with “Umbrella and Jacket” and it is being reduced to the same stage as Mussoorie where traffic is plying on sealed roads and, therefore, Old ...

Himachal will continue to witness rain today as the state’s Meteorological Department has issued a yellow weather warning for Kangra, Mandi, Hamirpur and Bilaspur districts. This means light rainfall ...

The daily arrival of apple in the fruit mandi of Solan has been adversely affected owing to damage caused to roads in the apple belt of Shimla district during the current monsoon season. The daily ...

Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday declared Himachal Pradesh a fully literate state under the centrally sponsored literacy programme ULLAS. Under this programme, any state achieving over ...

Himachal is pinning its hopes on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Kangra tomorrow for getting a special financial package from the Central Government. Modi will not only have an ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a financial assistance package of Rs 1,500 crore for flood and rain-affected areas in Himachal Pradesh. He also declared an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh for the ...

Doctors at a government-run veterinary hospital here have removed 28 kg of plastic and 41 metal nails, among other things, from the stomach of a pregnant cow. The complex surgery was performed at ...