Continuous damage to standing crops due to intrusions by blue bulls (nilgai) in several villages in the Shivalik foothills has forced the state government to relax the norms and allow killing of the animal. The permission will apply only to the areas falling under the forest divisions of Una, Bilaspur, Nurpur (Kangra), Paonta and Nalagarh.
The state government has banned mining in three major rivers of the state. The rivers include Chaki and Neugal in Kangra district and Seer in Bilaspur district.
The minister for IPH Ravinder Ravi gave this information while talking to The Tribune here today.
Spreading its wings outside the city, the Delhi Government's industrial infrastructure development body, DSIIDC, will now construct an energy-efficient green building in Himachal Pradesh.
Farmers and horticulturists in the region are likely to frostbite in their income. The sources available here told The Tribune that the frost coupled with unexpectedly low temperatures has dominated the month of December this year.
The Mid-Himalayan Watershed Project has caused the Himachal Pradesh gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate to shoot upto 9 per cent. The watershed project has been launched in the State by the World Bank.
After a spate of deliberations with experts on climate change, Himachal Pradesh has finally outlined a first-of-the-kind research project in the country to study the impact of climate change on the state
