One person was killed and four others were injured seriously when the vehicle in which they were traveling was hit by the falling boulders at National Highway 22 near Solan, Himachal Pradesh on Saturday morning.
According to India Today “Four Nangal, Punjab residents were travelling in a taxi bearing No PB0A-2820 when boulders hit the moving vehicle near Barog bypass.While Subhash,40, died on the spot his wife Surjit Kaur, daughter Shanvi, son Ishant and taxi driver Nawadi were injured seriously. They were brought to the Regional Hospital Solan for treatment but later referred to PGI Chandigarh as their condition deteriorated,” Superintendent of Police, Solan Anjum Ara said.
The size of the boulders can be estimated from the condition of the vehicle which was badly twisted by the huge boulders. This is second incident within a week when boulders hit moving vehicles.The stretch of National Highway between Parwanoo and Solan has become prone to landslides following the road widening work.
Fearing further delay in the completion of the Rohtang tunnel, the state government has urged the Centre to expedite the installation of a quarry plant at the north portal of the tunnel so that the project can be completed by 2019.
The pace of work has slowed down considerably as the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has delayed the permission to install the high-tech machine which will help throw out the excavated muck from inside the tunnel. The concreting of the tunnel can begin only after completing this task.
Chief Secretary VC Pharka has taken up the matter with the Union Ministry of Forest and Environment. “I have spoken to the Director General of the Ministry of Environment and Forest, SS Negi, requesting him to get the clearance expedited as this was delaying the completion of the Rohtang tunnel,” said Pharka. He added that the Principal Chief Conservator, Forests, (PCCF) had been asked to pursue the grant of an NOC with the Centre.
Ravi Thakur, legislator from the tribal district of Lahaul and Spiti, whose constituents stand to benefit from the completion of the tunnel has also taken up the matter with the Union Forest Secretary and other central agencies. “The panchayats of Koksar and Palchang have already been given the NOC and the Ministry of Environment and Forest is delaying the project,” said Ravi.
He lamented that despite the fact that there were hardly any trees or green cover in the area, the ministry was dilly-dallying in giving the NOC. He said the completion of the tunnel would benefit the people of Lahaul-Spiti and as such there should be no further delay.
The government is worried that in case of delay, the project could be pushed further, thereby leading to even substantial cost escalation.
The foundation stone of the project was laid in 2009 and the work had started two years later. The cost which was initially pegged at Rs 1,355 crore has now shot up to Rs 2,200 crore.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to hold talks to end the ongoing unrest over an upcoming state-run 450 megawatt Shongtong-Karcham hydroelectric project in Kinnaur district.
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A division bench of Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan, while hearing a petition filed by the Shongtong-Karcham Hydel Project Workers Union, asked the Kinnaur district deputy commissioner to resolve the issue at the earliest.
It listed the case for further hearing on July 26.
The petitioners said that the Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation, which is executing the project, had engaged a large number of workers.
It had handed over the project works to Patel Engineering Ltd., which further engaged sub-contractors.
There were allegations of consistent and regular violation of labour laws. There were also reports of unrest among the workers since they were not getting salaries since December last year.
The deputy commissioner had imposed prohibitory orders, banning any gathering of five or more persons, to maintain law and order at the project site.
On June 25, the Communist Party of India-Marxist’s state unit sought a probe into the alleged financial bungling and the labour unrest going on for over three months at the hydroelectric project being executed with the Asian Development Bank funding.
In a missive to Chief Secretary V.C. Pharka, CPI-M state secretariat member Tikender Singh Panwar demanded a probe into carrying out of certain excavation work not associated with the project.
“The work was awarded to facilitate some important people of the region… this has to be thoroughly investigated,” he said.
Panwar, who is also the Shimla Deputy Mayor, said there was unrest among the project employees.
“There are many reasons for the unrest, ranging from non-payment of wages to workers to intimidation at the management’s behest,” he said.
IANS: Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh, which is about 270 km from the state capital Shimla, has the cleanest air in the country, says a recent study by the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D).
Kalpa village in Kinnaur Valley. Photo: Flickr
According to the study, PM 2.5 (particulate matter) level in Kinnaur was found to be 3.7+-1 microgram per cubic metre annually, which is less than 10% of the national air quality target of 40g/m.. On the other hand, India’s capital Delhi has PM 2.5 levels of 148+-51 microgram per cubic metre, thus making it the most air-polluted city in the country, as reported by Times of India.
PM 2.5 is harmful microscopic particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs.
While short term exposure to PM 2.5 can cause allergies or bronchitis, chronic exposure can cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and even lung cancer, which can eventually lead to premature deaths.
“The district administration of Kinnaur has taken up several environment protection initiatives to keep air and water pollution in check.”
The district had already banned the use of bottled mineral water in official meetings and functions, and an innovative solid waste management project is also being implemented.
“The construction of toilets is a major focus area and 30% of the remaining panchayats would soon be made open defecation-free,” Kinnaur Deputy Commissioner Naresh Kumar Lath told IANS.
AAP leader Bhagwant Singh Mann on Saturday claimed his party will win an absolute majority in the Punjab Assembly polls due next year and Himachal Pradesh would be its next target.
“AAP would get two-third majority in Punjab and Himachal would be its next target. The party would repeat Delhi in Punjab and its main poll plank would be corruption, drug addiction, unemployment and brain drain,” Mr Mann, who was in Shimla as member of Joint Parliamentary Committee on office of profit, said.
He said the younger generation of Punjab is addicted to drugs and the youth of the state are becoming physically unfit for recruitment in armed forces.
“The twin problem of brain drain and unemployment has become a bane for Punjab and the situation is so grim that the youth is taking the risk of going to war-torn Iraq for jobs,” he added.
The Himachal Pradesh government is soliciting public opinion on how best to tackle the ‘monkey menace’ which has caused crop losses worth hundreds of crores of rupees in recent years, Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri said on Sunday.
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Bharmouri told IANS he has requested the people, including farmers, animal rights activists and legislators, to suggest long-term solutions for the damage that a growing number of monkeys in the state has been inflicting on farming and the economy.
The number of monkeys in Himachal Pradesh increased five-fold from 61,000 to 317,000 between 1990 and 2004, according to the state wildlife department.
Their number has since declined, presumably due to the state government’s sterilization programme. The state is currently home to 207,614 monkeys, still a very high number, according to Bharmouri.
The minister’s canvassing of public opinion has been sparked by continued division on the long-standing issue: between those who advocate drastic measures to deal with animals that cause damage and those who raise moral and legal concerns.
Long been the subject of legal wrangling, the rift is currently being argued in the Himachal Pradesh High Court as well as the Supreme Court.
While the high court on April 19 issued notice to the central and state governments on the issue of declaring monkeys ‘vermin’ within the Shimla Municipal Corporation’s jurisdiction, the apex court on June 20 refused to put on hold a notification that allows the culling of monkeys.
The notification was issued on March 14 by the central government, declaring monkeys ‘vermin’ in Shimla for a period of six months. Another notification was issued in May to treat monkeys as vermin for a period of one year in other districts of Chamba, Kangra, Una, Bilaspur, Shimla, Sirmour, Kullu, Hamirpur, Sonlan and Mandi.
The notifications allow mass killing or ‘culling’ of monkeys in the state.
Labelling monkeys ‘vermin’ has not yet led to their mass killing because the high court in January 2011 put on hold a state government measure to allow farmers to shoot the monkeys to save their crops.
Bharmouri said the state government will request the high court to withdraw the order now that the Supreme Court has refused to block the central government notification.
The next hearings at the high court and the Supreme Court are both scheduled for July.
Meanwhile, monkeys in Himachal Pradesh are legally safe as long as the high court does not withdraw its order.
Bharmouri now wonders if the measure the state has used since 2006 — that of sterilizing monkeys — is worth continuing with.
“Under the sterilization programme since 2006, more than 51 percent of the monkeys in the state have been neutered,” he said.
Until March 31, a total of 108,325 monkeys were sterilised at eight centres, according to the state wildlife department.
The minister is asking people: Should monkeys be culled or sterilised in order to control their population?
His own opinion is clear by his efforts to get the central government to issue the notification and his stated position that the high court stay on killing monkeys should go.
Quoting the agriculture department report of 2014, Bharmouri said monkeys and other wild animals damaged agricultural crops worth Rs 184 crore annually.
He said the loss to horticulture crops was estimated at Rs 150 crore between 2006 and 2014.
According to official records, there were 674 attacks on humans by the monkeys in the last three years and the sufferers were compensated Rs 28 lakh during this period.
Kuldeep Singh Tanwar of Kheti Bachao Sangharsh Samiti, an NGO working for the cause of farmers, told IANS that farmers were in favour of culling.
“The monkeys should either be eliminated professionally by hiring hunters or the forest department should set up committees at the panchayat level to kill them,” Tanwar said.
He said lifting the ban on the export of monkeys for bio-medical research is the humane alternative to check their rising numbers.
The central government had banned the export of wild animals in 1978.
The bus was on its way to Rekong-Peo from Dharamshala when the driver lost control over it
Mangled remains of the bus which fell into 200-foot gorge at Rohanda near Sundernagar on Friday.- Photo: PTI
One person was killed and 24 others were injured when an HRTC bus fell into a 200-foot deep gorge at Rohanda near Sundernagar of Himachal Pradesh.
The incident took place late on Thursday night when the bus was on its way to Rekong-Peo from Dharamshala. It fell into the gorge after the driver lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a steep curve.
Relief money was also given to them, Rajeev Kumar, SDM Sundernagar said. A case has been registered against the bus driver, police said, adding investigation is underway.
The dead person has been identified as Gava Sherpa, a resident of Beer in Baijnath. The injured were admitted to a hospital in Sundernagar, after a first aid in Rohanda dispensary.
According to bus conductor Shravan Kumar accelerator got locked and bus suddenly gained rapid speed. Even though the bus was on the climb the speed suddenly just gone up. According to the bus driver, he tried his best to control the bus but it simply fell into a straight 100-meter deep gorge. Driver has sustained serious leg injuries in the accident.
The police has registered a case and started investigating the accident. Police has also described it a case of sharp speed in their initial questionin. SSP Mandi Kulbhushan Verma also described it as a case of sharp speed according to the information he received from the passengers.
It is second incident of the bus plying on the same route within a few weeks. Earlier the same root (Dharamshala-Rekong-Peo) bus had an accident near Joginder Nagar in which 12 passengers were killed.
The state government has seemingly taken strong exceptions to references of drug factories in Himachal Pradesh in the Alia Bhatt and Shahid Kapoor starrer ‘Udta Punjab’.
A few scenes in the movie shows youths referring to drugs supplied from Himachal’s pharma hub—Barotiwala.
“Whatever is depicted in Udta Punjab about Himachal Pradesh is not a reality. I will take up the matter with the film producer and ask him to delete the reference to Baddi-Barotiwala,” chief minister Virbhadra Singh told Hindustan Times.
“Today Baddi-Barotiwaala is not only a leading drug manufacturer in the country but it meets 30% of the requirement in Asia. There is some reference to drug entering Punjab from Himachal. It is bad to portray Himachal as a source of drugs for Punjab,” he said.
“The drug manufacturers in Himachal are for genuine purpose but it’s also true that they are being abused by addicts,” the chief minister said.
“No doubt, the film’s producer has a good intention and wants to spread awareness about the growing drug addiction among the youth but the reference to Himachal Pradesh has not gone down well,” he said.
“I have ordered the drug authorities to keep a strict watch on the drug factories in Himachal,” Virbhadra said.
There are more than 400 pharmaceutical units based in the industrial township of Baddi, Barotiwala, Nalagarh, Parwanoo in Solan district, while more than 100 pharmaceutical units are based in Poanta Sahib and Kala Amb in Sirmaur district. Over the years, the state has emerged as one of the pharmaceutical hubs in North India. Himachal alone produces drugs worth Rs 24,000 crore. Pharmaceutical units in Himachal export drugs amounting to Rs 9,000 crore.
Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on many occasions has blamed drug factories in Himachal Pradesh for drug spillover in Punjab while chief minister Virbhadra Singh has been denying it.
In the wake of reports that drug factories in Himachal Pradesh were clandestinely supplying drugs to Punjab, the Centre had red ordered large-scale sampling of the pharmaceutical firms in Baddi and Barotiwaala.
Several states have also been sending their teams for random sampling of drugs being produced in these towns. Central drug authorities had collected 40,000 samples of the various drugs manufactured in different states across the country, of which 27,000 were from Himachal only. Extensive random sampling had triggered panic among manufacturers in the state.
Of the total 700 drug manufacturing units in Baddi and Barotiwaala townships, 540 units manufacture medicines while 160 of them manufacture cosmetics. The pharmaceutical industry in Himachal has an annual turnover of Rs 30,000 crore.
There is a story behind every name, especially in the case of name of place and we call this story history. Each district of Himachal Pradesh also has a story or fact behind it’s name. Lets take a look at these pictures which reveals the story behind it’s name.
A file photo of Vikramaditya Singh, son of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh.
The CBI on Tuesday questioned Vikramaditya Singh, son of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, in a case of alleged disproportionate assets.
The CBI sources said Mr. Vikramaditya appeared before the probe team on Tuesday morning and was questioned.
During his questioning in connection with the case earlier this month, Mr. Virbhadra had put the onus of explaining the assets of his wife and children on them, they claimed.
His son Mr. Vikramaditya had claimed during CBI’s preliminary inquiry that some of his assets were from money provided by his father, according to them.
The sources said the probe team has questioned Mr. Vikramaditya on the difference in the claims made by Mr. Virbhadra and him.
“CBI has a strong case against Virbhadra Singh, his associates and partners regarding the assets acquired in the name of his wife and children,” an agency official had said after the Chief Minister was questioned on June 9 and 10.
The agency had initiated an inquiry which had allegedly showed that Mr. Virbhadra, while serving as a Union Minister between 2009-2012 in the UPA government, had accumulated assets worth Rs. 6.03 crore (approx) in his name and in the name of his family members which were found to be disproportionate to his known sources of income, CBI has said.
The FIR filed in a designated court in Delhi under the Prevention of Corruption Act, named Mr. Virbhadra, his wife Pratibha Singh, LIC agent Anand Chauhan and owner of Universal Apple Associates Limited Chunni Lal Chauhan as accused.
The allegations have been strongly refuted by Mr. Virbhadra.
In a statement, a CBI spokesperson had alleged that Mr. Virbhadra had invested his unaccounted income in LIC policies, in his name and in the name of his wife and other family members through a private person by showing the same as agricultural income.
“This was done by creation of MoU purportedly dated June 15, 2008 for maintenance of an apple orchard, with the said private person (Chauhan) for a period of three years. The private person had allegedly deposited Rs. five crore cash (approx) in his own bank account and debited the same through cheques for purchasing various LIC policies in their names,” the CBI had said.
It had said Mr. Virbhadra allegedly attempted to legitimise the same as agricultural income by filing revised Income Tax Returns in 2012.
“The agricultural income as claimed by him in his revised ITRs was not found to be tenable. The then Union Minister had allegedly accumulated other assets disproportionate to known sources of income,” the CBI has alleged.
The southwest monsoon on Tuesday reached Himachal Pradesh in advance with many areas witnessing moderate rainfall in the past 24 hours, the weather office here said.
“The southwest monsoon arrived almost a week in advance in the state,” Manmohan Singh, director of the meteorological office said.
The monsoon normally hits the state by June 27, he said.
Nahan town in Sirmaur district got 49 mm till 8.30 a.m., the highest in the state, while Gaggal and Dharamsala both in Kangra district recorded 43 mm and 21 mm rain, respectively.
State capital Shimla got 16.6 mm rain, while Dalhousie received just two mm rain.
Agriculture is the main occupation of the people in Himachal Pradesh, which saw deficit rainfall in the past two southwest monsoons, providing direct employment to 69 percent of its workforce.
The state recorded a deficit rainfall of 27 per cent in 2015. In 2014, the monsoon rain deficiency in the state was 38 per cent, making it the driest monsoon in the decade.
This season the state may see good rainfall, state Additional Chief Secretary Tarun Shridhar has said.
Quoting the India Meteorological Department’s station here, he said timely preparedness for the monsoon is being ensured and alerts have been issued to the authorities concerned.
The Himachal Pradesh government is making efforts to strengthen skill development activities and infrastructure.
For this, a Rs.640 crore ADB External Assistance Project was approved for supporting skill development, an official here said on Sunday.
Skill Development Policy Him Kaushal-2016 has been approved by the government to empower the unemployed youth in the age group between 15 and 45 years, a government spokesperson told IANS.
He said the policy envisages enhancing learning and employment opportunities of the targeted groups to strengthen the economic growth of the state and bridge the gap of skill deficit between the State and national level.
The State has also established Himachal Pradesh Kaushal Vikas Nigam, which would act as an outfit for implementation of the skill development policy and programmes.
It would endeavour to achieve uniformity of qualifications, standards, training tools, accreditation for the State in alignment with national standards.
Training would be provided by the government institutes and departments, private sectors and industries/industrial associations. Multi-purpose training and marketing centres would be developed in rural areas at industrial training institutes in a phased manner and would be aligned as per the needs of the local youth.
These centres would operate in a hub and spoke model with each centre and would be monitored by District Skill Development Centre.
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The spokesperson said special emphasis would be laid on local skills which are being carried forward by generations of artisans, weavers and artists.
All the existing employment exchanges would be upgraded into model career centres for counselling and vocational guidance, he said.
The government is also planning to start demand-driven and employment-oriented trades in the industrial training institutes which would increase students intake by 2,500 per year.
The objective of skill development training programmes is to ensure that no person is left out of training because of financial constraints. The programmes would be accessible to all residents between the age of 16 to 49 years both below poverty line and above poverty line in urban and rural areas. – IANS
Punjab Power Corporation run Shanan power house project has resumed production of electricity after 37 days. Carrying the production capacity of 50MW the project had shut down it’s production due to malfunction of machine runner. After the replacement of runner it resumed production on Saturday morning. It ran last on May 11, 2016.
After consistent failure of runner management had decided to change the runner. Punjab Power Corporation had been charged of negligence towards the said project. This step of replacing runner is being considered as a solid reply to such charges.
It is estimated to incur a loss of crores of rupees to corporation due to the shut down of this machine in peak season. It is estimated worth 1900MW of electricity been lost due to this failure.
With abundant water in summer day in Shanan power house project is to estimated to produce 110 MW of electricity, which is said to be resumed with this replacement..
For the lack for passengers airline company SpiceJet is closing its one flight from Gaggal – Kangra airport. It will be in-effect from Saturday.
Airport director Parvinder Tiwari said “SpiceJet airline is reducing its flights to Gaggal. Lack of passenger has forced the company to made this decision.”
SpiceJet flights reduced to two
After this cut down in flights from SpiceJet tree flights will be in operation including two from the same airlines and one from Air India.
On the other hand, a nine-seater aircraft service to Shimla and Kullu from Gagal has also stopped. It stopped only after two days it was started.
Shimla(ANI): Raising objections to the construction of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s house, Suresh Bhardwaj, BJP’s Shimla MLA, has written to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh for cancelling the construction permission granted to her by the state government, saying it is being built close to ‘The Retreat’, the President’s guest house in Shimla.
“I have written a letter to the Home Minister pertaining to the construction taking place, around the President of India’s summer residence The Retreat in Shimla. No construction should be allowed in the vicinity of either The Retreat or the Kalyani helipad, as it is a high security zone,” Bhardwaj told ANI.
“VVIPs, including the Prime Minister, also visits and stay here and Priyanka’s house has put the security of the dignitaries at stake,” he added.
Bhardwaj further said the construction permission to construct a house near The Retreat was denied to several persons, including Commodore Devinderjeet Singh (a retired senior naval officer) for security reasons.
“The commodore had purchased around 2,400 sq yards near The Retreat and submitted an application for permission to build cottages. However, permission was denied to him,” he said.
“How is it possible that Priyanka Gandhi got the construction permission,” asked the BJP MLA.
Shimla, Jun 16 (PTI) The Himachal Pradesh High Court today directed the state government and Shimla Municipal Corporation to file quarterly status reports on the citys traffic which is said to be chaotic.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Justice Sandeep Sharma passed the order on a petition filed by Dharam Pal Thakur, who had alleged the authorities had failed to diligently perform their duties, leading to chaos and haphazardness on the citys roads.
The court, which took up the petition as a Public Interest Litigation, directed the state government to file a status report on the implementation of Shimla Road Users and Pedestrians (Public Safety and Convenience) Act and furnish the list of permits granted by the authorities for plying of vehicles on sealed and restricted roads.
It also sought an affidavit on the mechanism put in place to check and deter “unnecessary” vehicles on sealed and restricted roads, whether CCTV cameras were installed at entry points and proper signals fixed.
It also asked authorities to report to it what steps have been undertaken to prevent unauthorized parking in and around Indira Gandhi Medical College, Kamla Nehru Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital and what is the policy prevalent for manning HRTC taxis on sealed and restricted roads. PTI PCL GVS AKK
SHIMLA: A strike by employees of the state-run Himachal Road Transport Corp. (HRTC) ended today, a little over 24 hours after the shutdown started.
“Buses resumed service on all intra and inter-state routes this morning (Wednesday) as the government agreed to most of the demands of the employees,” a government spokesperson told IANS.
Defying the Himachal Pradesh High Court order, over 10,000 Roadways employees started their two-day strike across the state on Monday night.
The employees were demanding regularisation of the contract staff and pension benefits.
Earlier, a meeting between the government and the employees’ leaders was held in Shimla to resolve the issue amicably, but the talks failed.
“A meeting with the striking employee leaders was held on Tuesday and they were apprised about the high court orders, especially the part that they must call off strike by 5.00 pm on Wednesday, but they refused to call off the strike,” a statement by HRTC Managing Director Ashok Tewari said.
President of the Joint coordination committee of HRTC Employees Pawan Guleria said they were forced to resort to strike due to the adamant attitude of the state government over their long-pending demands.
He said the government was given a notice in advance about the two-day strike.
Acting tough against the protesting employees, the state high court on Monday declared the strike illegal and issued a directive for its immediate withdrawal, while asking the state to look into the employees’ demands. On Tuesday, the High Court said any decision to join and continue the strike would be held a contempt of court.
The HRTC with over 2,500 buses has been suffering losses but has been crucial to the state and its economy as the Roadways buses connect far-flung villages with urban areas.
SHIMLA- The issue of discrimination with school kids on the basis of caste has surfaced again in Himachal Pradesh. Children of a government primary school at Moolkoti in Mashobra near Shimla were allegedly made to sit in separate rows as per their caste when they were served mid-day meals.
Taking note of these incidents, Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh had directed the schools to serve mid-day meals to children as per the roll numbers to avoid caste-based discrimination, but several schools in different areas have ignored the directions.
Sant Sri Ravidas Dharam Sabha state president Karam Chand Bhatiya said they received a complaint about discrimination around five days back. Along with Mashobra’s ward-8 panchayat samiti member Shanti Devi, they took up the issue with Himachal Pradesh governor Acharya Devvrat and presented him a memorandum.
The governor also assured us to set up an inquiry on the issue. Some officials from HP directorate of elementary education reached the school for an inquiry, but no action has been taken so far, Bhatiya claimed.
He said after this incident was reported, people from Karsog and other areas have told them about similar issue. But these incidents don’t hog the limelight as these happen in far flung areas.
Even this incident was highlighted much later as some higher caste residents threatened dalits to stay quiet on issue or else face consequences, he added.
Social activist and National Congress Party’s Shimla district president Ravi Kumar Dalit said it is not the Moolkoti school alone where teachers are discriminating with children, the practice of untouchability still exists in areas such as Junga, Rampur, Kotgarh near Shimla.
The incident was highlighted six days back, but no action has been taken yet. We want an FIR to be registered and the culprits practicing untouchability be punished, he added.
Denying the allegations, Moolkoti school’s headmaster Mool Raj Verma said there was no truth in the claims.
An inquiry on the issue has been held. It will clear that we are not at fault and school has not practised any discrimination, he added.
Shimla deputy director (elementary education) Rakesh Vashishta said Mashobra block education officer (BEO) Pyare Lal Sharma visited the school after they receiving the complaint, but claims to have found any discrimination in the school after inquiry.
Himachal Pradesh STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) codes are affixed before a landline number, if you are calling from a number outside of Himachal Pradesh.
Washington D.C, Oct 23 (ANI): Studying starlight from red giants has provided insights into the makeup of a star’s internal magnetic field, a region that has been notoriously hard to study.
The technique applied here could be used to probe the internal magnetic fields in certain star types, providing a clearer picture of the influence of stellar magnetism on a star’s evolution.
While magnetic fields on the surfaces of stars can be observed, those within the star have so far remained out of reach. Recent studies with the Kepler satellite have identified red giant stars with mysteriously “dampened” internal activity or vibrations.
Here, Jim Fuller and colleagues showed it was possible to probe the interiors of these stars using asteroseismology, a technique that involves interpreting variations in light emitted from a star as due to sound waves from its interior.
Based on their analysis, Fuller and colleagues say that the magnetic fields of the red giants they studied caused sound waves inside them to become trapped in the star’s interior – an explanation for the mysterious damping of certain vibration modes in the Kepler observations.
The study provides a plausible explanation for why some red giants have “depressed” vibration modes and will help scientists better understand the properties and evolution of stellar magnetic fields.
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