Shimla

Naina Devi in Himachal receives 360 mm rain

2:26 pm August 18, 2019

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh received heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning, the meteorological department said. Naina Devi in Bilaspur district recorded 360 mm of rainfall, the highest in the state during the period, it said. Weather is improving in the northern parts of the state. However light to moderate […]

Torrential rains lash northern states, alert sounded in Punjab

7:48 pm August 17, 2019

Shimla/Jaipur/Thiruvananthapuram: Heavy rains lashed northern states with an alert sounded in Punjab following release of excess water from Bhakra dam and the Yamuna nearing the warning level in Delhi on Saturday, while normalcy was slowly returning to flood-ravaged Kerala, where so far 113 people have lost their lives. Andhra Pradesh too received heavy showers, with […]

Rakhis made by schoolchildren to be sent to soldiers

8:17 pm August 8, 2019

Ludhiana: Rakhis and greeting cards made by schoolchildren will be sent to the security personnel deployed at the border and remote areas by the Punjab Income Tax Department. The department’s Additional Commissioner Manav Bansal said under the programme, ‘Ek Rishta School Se Sarhad Tak’, rakhis would be sent to soldiers for protecting the country. These […]

13 soldiers among 14 dead in Himachal building collapse

10:31 pm July 15, 2019

Shimla: Fourteen people died and 28 others were injured after a multi-storey building collapsed in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district, officials said Monday. The bodies of 13 Army personnel of 4 Assam Regiment from nearby Dagshai Cantonment and a civilian were extricated from the debris, they said. Twenty-eight people, including 17 Army personnel and 11 civilians, […]

Toll in Himachal building collapse climbs to 8

1:01 pm July 15, 2019

Shimla: The death toll in the building collapse in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district climbed to eight on Monday, with rescuers pulling out the body of another Army jawan from the debris, officials said. 28 others were injured after the four-storey building, which housed a restaurant, collapsed on the Nahan-Kumarhatti Road on Sunday evening following heavy […]