Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 18:46
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will participate in the `Kalachakra` (Wheel of Time) ceremony and pray for world peace in the mountainous district of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir next month, an aide said Tuesday.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 17:54
Rescuers failed to recover the body of any of the 17 missing persons, swept away in the Beas river on June 8, on the 10th day of search on Tuesday with pre-monsoon rains posing hurdles before them.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 15:08
Volunteers have recovered belongings of two missing French trekkers who went missing in foothills of the Himalayas after breaking away from their group near Dharamshala in August 2013, which has prompted the police to resume search operations.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 00:25
At least 11 tourists were killed and 45 others injured when a private bus skidded off the road and rolled down a gorge in Himachal Pradesh`s Sirmaur district Monday evening, police said.
Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2014, 19:59
Acting on a petition filed with it, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Monday issued summons to the Larji Hydropower project authorities over the Mandi tragedy.
Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2014, 12:10
The search operation to locate 16 missing students from Hyderabad and a tour operator was Monday temporarily hit by sudden increase in water level in the mighty Beas river here, officials said.
Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2014, 00:58
After the Beas tragedy brought to the fore the rampant illegal sand mining in interiors of Himachal Pradesh, the government has directed authorities to take firm steps to curb the practise.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 15, 2014, 23:36
Himachal Pradesh Sunday admitted that illegal sand mining has been flourishing along the Beas river and the activity is to be partially blamed for the tragedy in which 24 students of an engineering college of Hyderabad lost their lives.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 15, 2014, 20:35
Himachal Pradesh admitted that illegal sand mining has been flourishing along the Beas river and the activity is to be partially blamed for the tragedy in which 24 students of an engineering college of Hyderabad lost their lives.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 15, 2014, 15:45
A massive search operation resumed Sunday by using a high-tech device that can scan the riverbed full of silt and boulders to locate bodies of 16 engineering students and a tour operator from Hyderabad who were washed away in the Beas river near this town last week.
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