
Criticising the UPA government for creating disparity between states ruled by NDA and others, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari today said that the Centre must understand the reality of federal structure of the country.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said he is worried about the growing number of monks and nuns setting themselves on fire in southwest China, in an interview broadcast today.
In an embarrassing development for the Congress, the Supreme Court has said cheating and criminal conspiracy charges against party secretary Asha Kumari related to a land grab case in Himachal Pradesh can't be quashed.
Customs figures show measly prices of goods brought by traders via silk route.

Tibetan religious head and the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje's name was today included in a chargesheet filed by the police in a Himachal Pradesh court on the seizure of foreign currency worth Rs 70 million (over $1 million) from a monastery in January.
Shimla, the erstwhile summer capital of the British Raj, is a pedestrian city and the walkers have the right to walk freely, the Himachal Pradesh high court has observed.
After upper parts of the state, the cantonment town Kasauli today experienced season’s first snowfall, strengthening the hope of heavy tourist’s influx in the area. Similarly, tourist ton Chail also experienced first snow fall this forenoon.
Himachal Pradesh’s popular tourist destinations of Shimla and Manali received more snowfall today. The state capital saw a minimum temperature of minus 2.9 degrees Celsius, the season's lowest.
At least seven persons died on the spot and 50 were injured, 20 of them seriously, in a bus mishap at Kupvi in Chopal area of Shimla district, about 110 km from here.
The picturesque stadium in Himachal Pradesh's Dharamsala town is all set to host international cricket matches with the International Cricket Council (ICC) giving it clearance, an official said today.
The excavation of a site in Jammu and Kashmir that is believed to be linked with an ancient Buddhist monastery has attracted the attention of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
Burnt remains of the pilot of the ill-fated MiG-29 fighter aircraft have been found by IAF search teams, 19 days after the plane crashed in Lahaul Valley in Himachal Pradesh.
Expressing concern over the inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAS) the 17th Karmapa, Ogeyn Trinley Dorje on Wednesday appealed Chinese leaders to enter into meaningful dialogues to resolve Tibet issue instead of using brute force to achieve the silence of Tibetans.
Rescuers have still not been able to retrieve the main wreckage of an Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-29 combat jet stuck in a glacier in the Himalayan heights of Himachal Pradesh's Lahaul Valley.
At least 25 passengers, including five women, were killed and more than 30 people injured when an overloaded Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus rolled down a gorge on Monday evening.