SHIMLA:Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that the state must behave like a model employer, irrespective of persons in power and change in guard.

SHIMLA: In another daring rescue operation, the 14th Battalion of the NDRF rescued 51 people who got struck after a cloudburst in two villages in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district, officials said on Friday.

SHIMLA: At least 10 under-construction commercial buildings collapsed after a massive landslide struck Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday.

SHIMLA: The Kalka-Shimla track, a world heritage site, was damaged on Monday in the Himachal Pradesh capital owing to caving in of a portion of the hill following heavy rainfall, an official said here.

Shimla: At least 41 people were killed and 13 went missing on Monday owing to heavy rainfall that triggered statewide flash floods and landslides, officials said.

SHIMLA: A portion of the 602-year-old hilltop Nalagarh Fort in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district collapsed on Saturday due to heavy rains and landslides.

MANALI: Traffic on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway between Mandi and Kullu was blocked on Friday following massive landslides in Himachal Pradesh owing to overnight heavy rainfall, police said.

SHIMLA:After 33 years of an agitation by apple growers against the then BJP government that changed the political landscape in Himachal Pradesh, the current Congress government led by Sukhvinder Sukhu announced a financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh each to the next of kin of three apple growers who then died.

SHIMLA: After a recent devastating cloudburst in Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu on Wednesday reached out to affected orchard owners and assured providing all possible assistance.

SHIMLA: Five all-weather tunnels on the Manali four-lane national highway from Hanogi to Jhalogi, which lay between Mandi and Kullu towns in Himachal Pradesh, turned out to be saviour for the motorists, largely locals, as torrential rain that triggered flash floods in the Beas River has washed away a major portion of the old highway in this segment.

SHIMLA: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescue teams and local residents have brought foreign nationals, mostly Israelis and Russians, as well as Indian tourists from Khirganga and Pulga to Tosh village and thereafter, towards Bhuntar in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district.

SHIMLA: The operation to evacuate locals and tourists stranded in Himachal Pradesh due to flash floods triggered by heavy rains has been completed, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu said on Saturday.

SHIMLA: Over 8,000 people have left the Kullu-Manali region in the past three days with the reopening of road networks after torrential rains battered Himachal Pradesh this week, officials said on Friday.

SHIMLA:In one of the toughest operations in rain-battered Himachal Pradesh, rescuers on Thursday succeeded in the evacuation of 266 tourists, comprising foreigners and local shepherds, who have been stranded for the past five days in the snow-marooned Chandertal, a lake surrounded by Himalayan mountains in Lahaul-Spiti district.

LEH: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday wrote to Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister to tell him how deeply saddened he is to learn of the torrential rain that has triggered floods and landslides resulting in the tragic death of many people and severe damage to roads and infrastructure in north India, particularly in the state.

MANALI: In one of the toughest operations to dig through mounds of snow to make way for nearly 300 tourists, comprising three foreigners, who got stuck on the icy road in Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti Valley at altitudes ranging above 15,060 ft, ‘snow warriors’ on Wednesday began work to reopen the mountain pass.

Shimla:Operation of trains in Himachal Pradesh, which has been ravaged by torrential rains, will remain suspended, officials said on Wednesday.

SHIMLA: The Shimla-Chandigarh National Highway 5 was blocked on Monday after a major landslide occurred in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district, police said.

SHIMLA:Over 250 tourists have been stationed in nearby places in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul-Spiti district amid snowfall in the region after torrential rains hampered the clearing of massive landslides that snapped road links, rescuers said on Monday.

SHIMLA: Rail traffic on the Kalka-Shimla track, a world heritage site in Himachal Pradesh, has been suspended till Tuesday owing to mudslides on tracks following heavy rainfall, an official here said.

SHIMLA: In one of the toughest and courageous operations, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has safely evacuated six people stranded across the swollen Beas river in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district amidst torrential rain.

SHIMLA: The two-week long Shrikhand Mahadev pilgrimage, considered tougher than the journey to the Amarnath cave shrine in Kashmir, will begin in Himachal Pradesh on July 7 with a portion of the trek still marooned in snow, officials said on Friday.

SHIMLA: The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors have approved a loan of $200 million to the Himachal Pradesh government to facilitate power sector reforms and increase the share of renewable energy (RE) in the state’s electricity generation.

SHIMLA: Tourist rush to picturesque landscapes in Himachal Pradesh amidst the onset of monsoon that has triggered frequent landslips and turned roads slippery can bring the picnic trips to a halt in a fraction of a second -- literally.

SHIMLA: Traffic on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway has been blocked following massive landslides along the Beas river in Himachal Pradesh, police said on Monday.

Shimla: Saying the BJP is exploiting the situation for political gains and could initiate an NIA investigation into the murder of a 21-year-old man for loving a woman from another community, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu on Saturday expressed displeasure over the protests by the opposition.

SHIMLA: Breaking stereotype barriers and empowering the fair sex at workplace, state-run Himachal Road Transport Corp (HRTC) driver Seema Thakur, the first and only woman driver in the fleet of 2,773 buses, has become the first woman on the wheel to drive on some of the toughest and long inter-state motorable roads.

Shimla:Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu on Monday announced that the state government would frame a policy within a year to find alternatives to plastic.

SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla on Wednesday inspected the undergoing strategically important Kiratpur-Manali road highway project and as well as the Bhanupalli-Bilaspur-Beri rail line project implemented by Rail Vikas Nigam Limited of New Delhi.

SHIMLA: Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao on Tuesday was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.

SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu said the government is planning to frame a new energy policy with an aim to provide more share to the state in hydropower projects.

SHIMLA: Surinder Chauhan, a close confidant of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu, was on Monday elected unanimously as the next Mayor of Shimla.

SHIMLA:Eyeing to attract investments of about Rs 20,000 crore in manufacturing, tourism, energy, construction and housing sectors, the Himachal Pradesh government will look into the delay in obtaining permission under Section 118 of the HP Tenancy and Land Reforms Act, 1972, an official statement said on Sunday.

SHIMLA: The ever-swelling wage and pension bills are pushing the small hill state of Himachal Pradesh, which has been banking heavily on borrowings through market loans with the debt crossing over Rs 75,000 crore, besides committed liabilities of over Rs 10,000 crore pertaining to arrears of employees and pensioners, to the wall with not enough money to sustain infrastructure and welfare schemes.

SHIMLA: The less than five-month-old Congress government in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday wrested control of one of India's oldest civic bodies, the Shimla Municipal Corporation, from the BJP, winning 24 out of 34 wards and reducing the opposition councilors to nine from the previous 17.