Shimla is among the six cities selected for the prestigious City Links Climate Adaptation Partnership Programme (CAAP), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Shimla: Unscientific disposal of sewage and solid waste is threatening the pristine environment and water sources of the Queen of Hills, as Shimla was fondly called by the British colonial rulers.
Water supply pipelines of the Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Department have got “mixed” with septic tanks in the periphery areas posing a serious threat to several lives.
The administration and the Animal Husbandry Department today breathed a sigh of relief as all 17 samples of dead and alive broilers sent to a Jalandhar-based laboratory tested negative for bird flu
For more than two hours on the morning of September 1, a motley group of city councillors, police officers and civil servants in Shimla listened with evident fascination as the former general offic
The southwest monsoon on Sunday withdrew from Himachal Pradesh, but remained 38 percent deficit, the weather bureau said. This was the driest monsoon in the decade, it added.
Hyderabad, Mumbai and Shimla spanning 2005 - 2012. We developed Poisson regression models to study ‘the main temperature effect’ as well as ‘additional impacts’ of sustained high and low temperatures (i.e. heat and cold waves) on all-cause mortality risk.
