A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Indian Army , Subedar Kuldeep Chand, hailing from the village Kohalwin in Nadaun tehsil of Hamirpur district (Himachal Pradesh), was killed in an encounter with terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC), in the Akhnoor sector of Jammu & Kashmir on Saturday.  

The Himachal Pradesh state government will hold a state-level Himachal Day function on April 15 in the remote Pangi area of Chamba district, where Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukku will preside over the function. Speaker of the HP Vidhan Sabha, Kuldeep Singh Pathania, and MLA Sunder Singh Thakur will accompany

Replying to the allegation of Mandi, Member of Parliament (MP) Kangana Ranaut for issuing her an exorbitant electricity bill of nearly Rs one lakh for her house in Manali during her absence for the past few months, the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Limited (HPSEBL) has accused actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut

The Ministry of Forest and Environment of the Central Government has constituted a three-member special committee to enquire into allegations of alleged illicit tree felling in the Dharampur area of the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.   In a notification issued by Inspector General of Forests, KB Singh , “

NEW DELHI, April 7 The Central government on Monday increased excise duty by Rs 2 each on petrol and diesel.According to a notification released by the revenue department of ministry of finance, the excise duty on petrol was increased to Rs 13 per litre and that on diesel to Rs 10. The

Mandi Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Magistrate Apoorv Devgan has extended the orders of closing traffic on the Chandigarh-Manali National Highway between Nerchowk and Pandoh for two hours from 11 to 12 am and from 2 pm to 3 pm daily, till April 30. He has also directed the NHAI to take all

A marathon race was organised by medical students of Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri Medical College, Nerchowk, under the aegis of the Global Association of Indian Medical Students, on World Health Day on Sunday, to raise drug awareness among youths. The marathon race, in which hundreds of medical students and people

The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet, in its meeting held at Shimla on Saturday, has increased the minimum fare on buses in the state from Rs 5 to 10. The Cabinet meeting held at Shimla, presided over by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, also decided to regularise the services of contractual employees

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Ltd (HPSEBL) employees, engineers, outsourced employees and pensioners held a Bijlee Panchayat at Luhnu Ground Bilaspur on Wednesday to highlight their demands. Hira Lal Verma, co-convener of the JAC, said, “This was the fourth Bijlee Panchayat of the series

Sardar Patel University (SPU), Mandi, celebrated its third foundation day on Tuesday at SPU complex, Mandi, which was attended by distinguished dignitaries, faculty members and students. Prof. Lalit Awasthi, Vice Chancellor, was the chief guest, and Prof. Anupama Singh, Pro Vice Chancellor, was the guest of honour on the occasion.