The Supreme Court has directed the Himachal Pradesh government to deposit ₹15 lakh as a lump-sum compensation for the welfare of a differently-abled rape survivor who gave birth to a child. A Bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul ordered the State to deposit the money in an interest-bearing fixed deposit in a nationalised bank in the name […]
» Read moreElection results in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh indicate a strong support for politics of good governance and development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday as trends showed that the BJP was inching towards victory in the two states. “I bow to the people of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh for their affection and trust in BJP. I assure them that […]
» Read moreForty-three people were killed and a dozen were injured when a Uttarakhand based private bus veered off the road and fell into the Tons River in Boldhar, about 15 km from Nerwa sub division of Chopal in anterior Shimla. The bus was coming to Tyuni in Chopal from Vikasnagar in Uttarakhand. The 54-seater bus was packed to capacity and the […]
» Read moreA school bus overturned at Dehar village in Sundernagar area, Himachal Pradesh on Friday morning. There were around 30 children on board the bus, which was travelling from Samlog village to Vivekananda Public School in Dehar, when the bus fell into a ditch. The accident took place in Sundernagar sub-division, around 130 kilometres from Shimla. The driver of the bus […]
» Read moreThree persons, including two tourists from Delhi, have died in Himachal Pradesh which reeled under intense cold wave, while the arterial Jammu-Srinagar Highway could not be restored for traffic for the second day on Wednesday due to snowfall. Two tourists from Delhi, Satyajit Singh (30) who had come to enjoy snow with his family, and Lakhpatra Gupta (75) died in […]
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