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Water crisis over, hoteliers urge tourists to visit Shimla
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], June 19 (ANI): Weeks after the tourism industry in Himachal Pradesh was massively hit due to acute water crisis, the hoteliers have appealed to tourists to visit Shimla without any apprehensions.
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Himachal HC directs state to file affidavit to solve water crisis in Shiml
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], June 11 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh High Court on Monday directed the state government and Shimla Municipal Corporation to file an affidavit, stating what arrangements and mechanism are being adopted by the authorities to solve the issue of water crisis in the
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Shimla water crisis: Govt schools to be shut from June 4-8
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India] June 2 (ANI): In the wake of the ongoing water shortage in Shimla, the department of education ordered all government schools here to be shut from June 4 to 8.
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Chhattisgarh: Water crisis forces tribals to walk to MP village
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Pendra (Chhattisgarh) [India], June 02 (ANI): With wells and natural water sources dried up, tribal people in Chhattisgarh's Pendra village are forced to make a five-kilometer round-trip to a neighbouring village in Madhya Pradesh on foot to cater to their needs.
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Reduced rainfall, snowfall in 2018 causing water crisis: Himachal CM
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 02 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday cited the decline in rain and snowfall in 2018 for the acute water shortage in Shimla.
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Shimla water crisis: Officials crack down on illegal connections
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India] June 01 (ANI): As Shimla is witnessing acute water shortage for the past few days, authorities have ordered to snap illegal water supply to normalise the crisis in the city.
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Chhattisgarh: Jheeram locals forced to drink dirty water
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Bastar (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 31 (ANI): Hit by water crisis, locals in Jheeram village of Chhattisgarh are compelled to consume and use contaminated water.
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Tourism massively hit in water-deprived Shimla
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], May 30 (ANI): The tourism industry in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla has been massively hit as tourists are cancelling their visits to the water-deprived hill-station.
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Is Shimla becoming India's Cape Town?
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], May 30 (ANI): Far away from the dreadful water crisis in the South African capital of Cape Town that somehow with the help of a strict water-saving regime managed to push back the 'Day Zero', has now found a counterpart in India's Shimla.
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Uttarkhand village takes steps to ease water shortage
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Dandni (Uttarakhand) [India], May 28 (ANI): Faced with a severe water crisis, a village in the northern state of Uttarakhand, has launched and introduced a water conservation programme that has won all-round praise.
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Water crisis forces locals to climb down well in Dindori
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Shahpura (Madhya Pradesh) [India] May 26(ANI): With the country witnessing a rise in mercury across all states, the people of Madhya Pradesh's Shahpura in Dindori district are facing acute water shortage.
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70-year-old digs well to solve water crisis in MP village
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 24 (ANI): A 70-year-old man, Sitaram Rajput, is single-handedly digging out a well since last three years to help solve the water crisis in Hadua village in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur.
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