Deputy Election Commissioner Sandeep Saxena informed that the previous highest polling percentage of 73.5 was recorded in the 2012 assembly polls. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, it was 64.45 per cent.
The area has been witnessing heavy rainfall for the past three days. Police have diverted traffic via Sanjauli, on Shimla's outskirts.
Himachal Transport minister G S Bali said the toll could climb to 50 in the incident which took place last night.
The agency has constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to be headed by a Superintendent of Police of the agency, CBI spokesperson RK Gaur said. The team also comprises an Additional SP and a Deputy SP.
Hours after one of the suspects in the gang-rape and murder of a schoolgirl in Shimla was found murdered in a lockup, a top Himachal Pradesh police officer heading the SIT probing was case was transferred
At least 20 people are feared dead and several others injured after a private bus, travelling from Reckong Peo (Kinnaur) to Solan, rolled down a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Rampur on Thursday morning
The Coffee House says the change is necessitated by economic reasons
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday flagged off the first regional flight under the Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) scheme between Shimla and Delhi.
Under government’s subsidy-led UDAN flying scheme, that is intended to connect small towns by air, the fares start at Rs 2,000.
According to police, there were 56 people in the ill-fated bus, adding that casualties could increase.
In an interesting incident, in Shimla's first Book Cafe inmates of a sub-jail near here are trained by a renowned hotel to serve cookies and pizza they have baked.
Bodies of two National Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamirpur students, who had gone trekking in Janjehali Valley in Mandi district a week ago, have been found.
Kashmir remained cut off from the rest of the country for the second day today due to heavy snowfall.
Shimla: A BJP leader of Himachal Pradesh has raised objections to the construction of a house by Congress chief Sonia Gandhis daughter Priyanka Gandhi near the summer residence of the President of India here, arguing
Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh capital is a "fit case" for car-rationing odd-even scheme on the pattern of Delhi because emission of carbon dioxide and other green house gasses accounted for 35.91 % of total emission,
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