Power engineering company Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has secured a contract for setting up a 412MW hydro electric project in Himachal Pradesh, India.

By New York Times News Service NEW DELHI -- Nearly 150 pilgrims, many of them children, were trampled to death at a Hindu temple in northern India on Sunday, after rumors of a landslide set off a stampede, local officials said.

By Jagdish Bhatt SHIMLA: The Satluj Jal Vidyut Ni

Text of report by Nepalese newspaper Kathmandu Pos

Kinkri Devi, who gained international fame for fighting against environmentally harmful mining and quarrying in India, has died at age 82. She died Dec. 30 in Chandigarh, India, of age-related ailments, The New York Times reported Sunday.