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J-K: Heavy rain, flash floods damage foot-over bridge in Rajouri
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 14 (ANI): Heavy rain and flash floods damaged a foot-over bridge in the hilly areas of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri causing much inconvenience to the people.
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Uttarakhand: CEC Rajeev Kumar treks 18 km to visit remote polling stations
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India], June 5 (ANI): Chief Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Friday trekked for 18 kilometers to the remote polling booths of Uttarakhand to assess the challenges faced by polling parties in hilly areas.
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Road, rail transport hit in Assam's Dima Hasao due to landslides
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Dima Hasao (Assam) [India], May 12 (ANI): Road transport and train services have been disrupted in hilly areas of Dima Hasao district of Assam due to several landslides, said an official on Thursday.
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Pakistan's water supplies under severe strain amid slow snow melting
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 11 (ANI): Pakistan's National water supplies have dipped substantially low and are facing severe strain as, despite an early onset of summer in mid-March and April getting hotter than usual, the snow melting process in mountainous and hilly areas has not picked up
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J-K: Rajouri youths get training under Skill India Programme
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 18 (ANI): Industrial Training Institute (ITI) is providing training to more than 800 unemployed youths from far-flung hilly areas in different trades under the Government's Skill India Programme.
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Districts in Himachal Pradesh receives fresh spell of snowfall, temperatur
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], December 7 (ANI): Snowfall has been reported in the hilly areas of the state including Lahaul and Spiti, Kinnaur and Kullu with the temperature expected to drop further in the coming days, according to India Meteorological Department Head of Himachal Prades
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Heavy rains expected in southern districts of Kerala, CM directs officials
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], November 13 (ANI): Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday said heavy rains were expected in the southern districts of Kerala including Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam and directed officials to take extreme caution in river banks, hilly areas, an
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Girls' hostel constructed under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan in J-K
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 6 (ANI): With an aims to provide relief to female students living in far-flung hilly areas who had to travel long distances every day for studies, a 100 bedded girls hostel was constructed in the Panchari area of Udhampur district in Jammu a
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Parliamentary panel arrives in Srinagar to review facilities provided to
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] August 14 (ANI): To review the facilities provided to army personnel and officers deployed at high altitude hilly areas, the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) headed by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday reached Srinagar on a four-day tour to K
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Seeds wrapped in soil thrown in inaccessible areas to increase green cover
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 2 (ANI): How do you plant saplings in inaccessible hilly areas for increasing the green cover? The forest department has a solution called seed balls that it is using in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district: It wraps seeds in soil balls and throw
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Farmers in J-K's Rajouri rejoice as water for irrigation reaches remote ar
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 22 (ANI): Farmers in far-flung hilly areas of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, struggling for water supply, took a sigh of relief after the district administration extended help three months ago to supply water for irrigation of their lands.<
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COVID-19: Officials trek more than 10 kms to vaccinate residents of remote
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Alipurduar (West Bengal) [India], June 21 (ANI): Alipurduar District Magistrate (DM) Surendra Kumar Meena along with health officials trekked more than 10-km through forests and hilly areas to reach a remote village, Adma and conducted a vaccination drive for people above 45 years of age on
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