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SC grants bail to UAE bizman in terror funding case

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- The Supreme Court has granted bail to UAE-based businessman Naval Kishore Kapoor, an accused in the Kashmir terror funding case involving Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Haf... Read More


Cong won't accept cabinet berth until statehood restored: Karra

Jammu, Aug. 28 -- The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Congress on Thursday spurned the offer of the National Conference (NC) to join the council of ministers. Addressing mediapersons during a workers' c... Read More


Will enact legislation if BBMB fails to return surplus land: CM Sukhu

Shimla, Aug. 28 -- If the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) does not return Himachal's surplus land in its possession, the state government will enact legislation to vest this land in the state, chi... Read More


'Law unconstitutional': High court quashes VC appointment rules

Shimla, Aug. 28 -- The Himachal Pradesh High Court has struck down provisions that gave the state government a decisive role in appointing vice-chancellors (VCs) of the state's agricultural universiti... Read More


Four test positive for swine flu in Kangra

Shimla, Aug. 28 -- Four cases of H1N1 (swine flu) have been detected at Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Tanda, Kangra. The patients include two babies, aged seven months and one year, f... Read More


Need for scientific research into cloudbursts, glaciers: Sukhu

Shimla, Aug. 28 -- Expressing concern over the loss of lives in the Nepal flash floods, chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu stressed the need for scientific research into cloudbursts, glacier behavi... Read More


Cong, BJP to move privilege motions as row over insult to National Anthem escalates

Shimla, Aug. 27 -- Escalating the row over the allegations of disrespect to the National Anthem, both the ruling Congress and opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will move privilege motion. Speaki... Read More


Anurag writes to CM, seeks withdrawal of lottery tender

Shimla, Aug. 27 -- Former Union cabinet minister and MP from Hamirpur Anurag Thakur has written to chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu urging the immediate withdrawal of the tender issued by the fin... Read More


Sukhu orders removal of caste column from school admission forms

Shimla, Aug. 27 -- Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Wednesday ordered that the caste column be removed from admission forms in schools from the next academic session. He issued the direction w... Read More


6 killed, 3 injured as vehicle falls into gorge in Poonch

JAMMU/srinagar, Aug. 27 -- Six people died and three others injured, one of them critically, after a Maruti Eeco van veered off the road and plunged into a gorge in Poonch's Surankote sub-division on ... Read More