Himachal Pradesh, India News

New Delhi News.Net Thursday 7th August, 2008 The Himachal Pradesh government has increased the number of seats in various undergraduate and postgraduate courses and Ph.D programmes in the constituent colleges ...

Close to 150 Hindu worshippers, including scores of children, are confirmed to have died at a temple in northern India in the worst stampede in the country in three years, police said Monday.

The Himachal Pradesh government is paying no heed to the safety of devotees who are travelling daily to the Naina Devi temple, despite last Sunday's tragedy at the hilltop shrine in which 145 people were killed ...

The stampede at the hilltop shrine that killed at least 145 people has made it clear once more that the authorities in Himachal Pradesh are unprepared to handle disasters, natural or manmade.

New Delhi - An Indian pilgrim knocked unconscious in a stampede that killed 150 people woke up in a morgue as doctors prepared to perform a postmortem examination on him, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

New Delhi News.Net Monday 4th August, 2008 President Pratibha Patil Monday condoled the deaths of 145 people in a stampede at the Naina Devi shrine in Himachal Pradesh.

Over 25,000 devotees have offered prayers to the Goddess since morning on Tuesday, two days after tragedy struck claiming 146 lives.

The Naina Devi temple in northern India has reopened a day after a stampede killed 145 Hindu pilgrims, most of them women and children.

ANANDPUR SAHIB, PUNJAB: Mothers sat wailing for their children and anxious relatives searched for their loved ones even as doctors at the civil hospital here Monday scrambled to save the injured and complete ...

Alarmed by the Naina Devi temple stampede, Himachal Pradesh government on Monday said it would consider introducing the Vaishnav Devi shrine model to regulate pilgrim movement in state's major shrines.

Aug 3 - At least 145 people, mostly women and children, die in a stampede at a temple in northern India Hindu worshippers, chanting and singing hymns, were snaking up a 4-km trail leading to a hill-top temple ...

By Vishal Gulati, Shimla, Aug 3 : The arrival of buyers from places as far away as Gujarat, Maharashtra and even Nepal have sent the prices of apples soaring in Himachal Pradesh.

Survivors of Sunday's ghastly stampede at the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh said the meagre police force present at the shrine were more busy 'slapping and cane-charging people' than bringing the ...

NEW DELHI: Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Sunday expressed his shock and grief over loss of lives at stampede at Naina Devi temple in Bilaspur district in Himachal Pradesh that claimed the lives of 120 pilgrims ...

Police say at least 68 pilgrims - including 30 children - have been killed in a stampede at a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India.

The search is on for an officer to fill the post of the director-general of police in Himachal Pradesh after the state's top cop Ashwani Kumar became the new chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation .

New Delhi/Shimla, Aug 1 : Rubbishing charges that the Central Bureau of Investigation is a tool for the government to 'settle scores', the investigative agency's new chief Ashwani Kumar said Friday that the ...

The Himachal Pradesh government Monday gave its nod to the 144 MW Gondhla and 261 MW Yangthang hydro power projects to be developed by Moser Bayer India Ltd and Gammon India Ltd respectively.

The government on Thursday night appointed senior IPS officer Ashwani Kumar as the new director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, superseding the agency's Special Director M L Sharma.

India's public sector National Mineral Development Corporation has got permission to mine steel-grade limestone in Himachal Pradesh, a state government official said Wednesday.