Torrential rains and unabated construction are frequently triggering disasters in India's Himalayan region.
But an unusual increase in rainfall is making the terrain even more dangerous.
Landslides and flash floods have already killed dozens in the (...)
Nine people have died and dozens more are feared trapped after an ancient Hindu temple collapsed in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh due to heavy rains.
Rescue operations are underway after the temple in the popular tourist town of Shimla was (...)
"I don't know what our fault is. What have we done to deserve this?" says a distraught Kanta Sharma, pointing to a shuttered cement plant in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
It's one of two plants - the other is located around 48km (30 (...)
Indian police on Monday arrested two men suspected of raping a 25-year-old Israeli tourist in the popular northern Himalayan resort town of Manali, local officers said.
The arrests were made following a complaint by the woman that she was attacked (...)
Forest fires raging in India's Himalayan region crept perilously close to a famous British-era railway track Tuesday, as panicked residents fought off blazes threatening to engulf their homes.
Dubbed the "toy train" and dotted with tiny wooden (...)
Avalanche threat loomed over Lahaul and Kinnaur areas of north Indian state Himachal Pradesh Saturday as most parts of the state reeled under piercing cold wave conditions after fresh snowfall.
Several localities in Shimla and other places went (...)
India's opposition Hindu fundamentalists expelled senior figure Jaswant Singh Wednesday over his book praising Pakistan's founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah who is widely blamed in India for the 1947 partition.
Singh is a founding member of the (...)
