It can sound like a dream but the local Municipal Corporation (MC) plans to provide round-the-clock water supply in four wards of the city on an experiment basis. If it succeeds, it will be implemented in all 25 wards.
Chandigarh: The Himachal Pradesh government has come out with an Rs 4,668-crore integrated watershed management perspective (IWMP) plan for treatment of 31,12,472 hectare in the state.
Two labourers lost their lives and three people were injured at Kanlog in Shimla due to heavy rains on Sunday morning. A temporary hutment made of tin sheets collapsed in an under-construction building resulting in the death of two people.
Delhi is perpetually in the grip of a water crisis with the shortage plummeting to 150 million litres a day. In Mumbai water scarcity is reported to be a cause of social discord and stress. A drinking water crisis is lurking in Godawari district of Karnataka as also in Bundelkhand.
As the count of patients affected with diarrhoea touched 133 in Shimla on Friday, the state government issued an advisory across the state against consumption of drinking water from natural sources and checking open defecation, especially around water sources.
Shimla: Determined to impose green tax on vehicles bearing registration numbers of other states, Shimla Municipal Corporation has decided to again approach the BJP-ruled Himachal Pradesh government to seek its approval so that it could raise much-needed funds.
Forests of the hill state will now have a strict and more intense monitoring system to check illegal felling of trees. Instead of a single guard monitoring the forests, there will be a group patrol system in place.
SHIMLA: An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale hit the entire rural Shimla district on Friday.
According to the Met Department, its epicentre was at latitude 31.2 degrees North and longitude 78 degrees East. The area falls near Jubbal Kotkahi tehsil in this district.
Rakesh Lohumi
Acting swiftly on the complaints of local villagers, the state pollution control board today issued a show-cause notice to the Wildflower Hall hotel of the Oberoi chain on the outskirts of the city for flouting environmental norms and contaminating natural water sources by discharging partially treated sewage effluent into a nearby nullah.
