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SHIMLA: Landslide has once again blocked national highway-5 (Shimla-Kinnaur highway) at Badhal in Shimla district. Within a week, this is the second major landslide along this strategically important national highway that connects the Kinnaur district and Spiti valley located close to China border. Earlier, a major landslide along this highway was reported at Jeori in Shimla district on September 6 while before that landslide at Nigulsari in Kinnaur district on August 11 had killed 28 people. According to the officials, the landslide at Badhal near Jeori was reported on Sunday and no loss of human life has been reported. Officials said that Shimla district administration has deployed the earth removing machines for the restoration of road connectivity. Sources said that frequent closure of Shimla-Kinnaur national highway is causing great inconvenience not only to daily commuters but also the apple growers of Shimla and Kinnaur districts who are finding it difficult to transport their apple crop to the market in time to fetch good prices. Most of the Himachal Pradesh is incessant receiving monsoon rains due to which state is facing increased threat of landslides. The isolated places of lower and middle hills of the state are going to have more rainfall till September 18. According to officials of Shimla Meteorological Centre, rainfall occurred at most places over the state during last 24 hours as monsoon was active over the state during this period. In the state, maximum temperatures has decreased by 3-4 degrees Celsius in last 24 hours while there is no appreciable change in minimum temperatures. Minimum temperatures were normal while maximum temperatures were 5-6 degrees Celsius below normal. On Sunday, the lowest temperature of 9.4 degrees Celsius was recorded at Keylong in Lahaul-Spiti district while highest maximum temperature of 30.5 degrees Celsius was recorded in Una on Saturday. Source link Read the full article

SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh reported 3 Covid-19 deaths and 136 positive cases on Thursday. 174 positive patients have also recovered. Two deaths have been reported from Solan district while one death has been reported from Mandi district. The state has total 204098 confirmed positive cases of which 1,150 cases are active, 199444 patients have recovered while 3486 patients have died. So far total 2633662 persons have been tested for Covid-19 till date of which 2428930 persons have been tested negative. Since 7 pm on Wednesday, total 13444 samples were tested in the state and results of 634 samples were awaited. Positive cases reported include 6 from Bilaspur district, 34 from Chamba district, 10 from Hamirpur district, 17 from Kangra district, 2 from Kinnaur district, 6 from Kullu district, one from Lahaul-Spiti district, 31 from Mandi district, 19 from Shimla district, 3 from Solan district and 7 from Una district. Source link Read the full article