A tourist has set an aerial fire in a hotel in Shimla. He asked the waiter at the hotel for room service at 2:00 pm, but the waiter denied it at that late light. The tourist got angry and he started aerial firing and also threatened the waiter to put him...

It's gallows for the three persons who kidnapped and killed four-year-old Yug Gupta, their neighbour, after enticing him with a chocolate some four years ago.Shimla District and Sessions Judge Virender Singh on Wednesday pronounced the verdict awarding capital...

Posters of the Islamic State (IS) surfaced near an army cantonment in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district on Tuesday, a police official said.The posters and a flag saying "ISIS Coming Soon", written in English, Hindi and Urdu, surfaced on the walls near Subathu...

Himachal Pradesh Police on Saturday intensified its operation to arrest villagers who lynched an alleged cattle smuggler in a fit of rage in Sirmaur district two days back.Noman Akhtar, a resident of Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, who was allegedly smuggling...

Twenty-six people, including 18 men, were arrested when a sex racket was busted in a hotel on the outskirts of Shimla, an official said on Monday."Eighteen men and eight women, all in the age group of 35 to 40 years, were arrested on Sunday evening," Superintendent...

The Himachal Pradesh Police on Friday booked a personal security officer of state Industry Minister Mukesh Agnihotri for allegedly firing from his service revolver at a man in this capital town, police said.An attempt to murder case has been registered against...

The Himachal Pradesh High Court Tuesday turned down an interim anticipatory bail of Chandigarh-based businessman Amrik Singh Nagpal in the alleged illegal felling of 477 trees on the outskirts of Shimla.Stating that in view of the gravity of the offence,...

A court Saturday sent a Himachal Pradesh University official to police remand for two days for issuing a fake marksheet to his son, police said.Police Friday arrested and registered a case against assistant registrar Bal Krishan Sharma on the complaint...

Five years after the death of medical student Aman Kachroo due to ragging in Himachal Pradesh, police Saturday registered a suicide case after the death of a student of a private polytechnic college allegedly due to harassment by seniors.The victim was a...

A standing committee of the Shimla Municipal Corporation Friday sought the Himachal Pradesh High Court's intervention in the alleged murder of a 20-year-old married woman near this town in February.In a missive to Acting Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir,...

The Himachal Pradesh High Court Thursday granted anticipatory bail to a former BJP legislator booked for sexually assaulting a woman two years ago.Justice Sanjay Karol, in his interim order, granted bail to Baldev Sharma till April 17, the next date of hearing.Sharma...

A local trader was fined Rs.1 lakh for storing banned tobacco-based products, an official said Thursday.Shimla Municipal Corporation health official Omesh Bharti fined the trader after five bags of gutka (tobacco-laced areca nut pieces) and 5,300 pouches...

Himachal's Bharatiya Janata Party chief Prem Kumar Dhumal's youngest son accused Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and his parliamentarian wife Pratibha Singh here Wednesday of raising an unsecured loan of Rs.3.90 crore.BJP leader Dhumal's son Arun Dhumal, who is...