The deaths happened when a Maxicab fell 400 ft down in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, 250 km from Shimla.
Captain Shikha Surabhi is the first woman to lead a formation of 36 men and 9 Royal Enfields of the Indian Army's motorcycle display team on Republic Day.
Kangra, Shimla, Mandi, Kullu, Hamirpur and Chamba received heavy rains.
'Designing the Bigg Boss sets is total dhamaal!' 'They are so happy with the way I design the sets that no questions are asked.' 'Contestants live there for three months, and so, the sets also become a character.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah handed over urns containing the ashes of the late leader to the party's state unit chiefs.
Tourism to Corbett and Almora could be particularly hit as a result of the fire, which has destroyed 2,200 hectares of forest.
'If we win, the semi-finals will be in Rajasthan, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh,' says BJP President Venkaiah Naidu.
"From a very early age, I imagined myself playing powerful characters," she says, and she proves it with her filmography.
'Rajan epitomised the best of his generation -- veneration for knowledge, for old fashioned morality of honesty and modesty.' Economist Devaki Jain, Padma Bhushan, salutes her brother who passed into the ages last week.
At a height of 17,200 feet, his handwriting mangled by the cold, Captain Vikram Batra wrote this letter to his twin brother.
The Congress is holding a 3-day conclave in Shimla as part of preparations for the November assembly polls and next year's general election.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the case.
The police said the abductors came in a car without a number plate and forcibly lifted Abhi Verma, alias Harry, a student of class IX, near Shimla Pahari chowk.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui's film Liar's Dice has been selected as India's official entry to the Oscars 2015, and he's thrilled!
Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers Ram Vilas Paswan said on Monday that his ministry would cut the prices of life saving and other important drugs by bringing more drugs under the 'price monitoring system' and also check the manufacture and
Hundreds of serving and veteran officers on Friday celebrated bicentenary of the first battalion of Gorkha Rifles (1/1 GR) with vigour and zest at Pathankot.
Swaraj also said that Pak cannot take Kashmir to the ICJ.
They had filed nominations against official candidates for the upcoming assembly polls.
The chief election commissioner said that the dates for the Himachal Pradesh election would be announced soon.
The victims, from Jharkhand and Nepal, were engaged in the Rohtang tunnel construction project.
Former home secretary N K Jain has been booked on charges of hatching a conspiracy to frame a local computer institute owner in the rape of a Shimla-based girl.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi alleged that it was selling even profit-making public sector units in strategic sector in blatant violation of all norms and regulations.\n\n
The chopper, belogning to a private skiiuing company crashed minutes after takeoff.
The state governments expressed their resolve to end the menace as India played global host to 2018 World Environment Day celebrations with the theme "Beat Plastic Pollution".
Delhiites woke up to a chilly morning with the mercury dipping to 6.8 degree Celsius, a drop of nearly five notches from Saturday when the minimum settled at 11.5 degree.
In North India, the sweaters and shawls are out and the coals are burning. The entire region has been hit with a cold wave and the upper areas have even experienced snowfall. The temperatures have dipped in the nation's capital, Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand and other northern states. And even as bone-chilling conditions are set to engulf most parts of northern India, weather experts warned that they are just a taste of the biting days to come. Here are some images of the biting cold.
In Uttar Pradesh, twenty-six people were killed, taking the statewide toll to 87.
Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
With Rahul showing a significant lead over Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi in opinion polls across southern India but lagging in the north, the Congress believes his contesting from the south will help galvanise cadres.
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