“One of them, Abdul Gafur, was allegedly attacked by the leopard while he was at work. The rest of the workers were present some distance away. They rushed to the spot after hearing Gafur’s cries and the animal fled on seeing them,” said a police official.
Gafur received injuries on his right leg where the leopard attacked him with its paw, and was given first aid before being rushed to the IGMC hospital in Shimla for treatment, the police said.
The victim is a resident of Mandi in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, and had arrived in Shimla along with his two sons and five others after being hired by an IPH contractor, officials said. “We have alerted the forest authorities about the incident,” said the police official.
It also decided that all the summer-closing schools in the state will remain closed till February 12 and online classes would continue. In the backdrop of parents’ bodies in the state protesting against high school fees being charged by private schools despite there being no physical classes due to the pandemic, the Cabinet decided to form a committee to look into the matter.
“The Cabinet considered the issue of exorbitant charges being levied by private schools and constituted a committee to see that the fees and charges of private educational institutions are not exploitative in nature and are consortium to the salary of the staff and infrastructure facilities in schools,” a government statement said.
Over 30% kids under 5 yrs in Himachal stunted, more than 1/4th underweight: NFHS
The proportion of stunted children is more in rural areas as compared to urban areas, and has increased by 4.5 per cent since the last such survey held five years ago. Updated: December 23, 2020 9:08:54 pm
The survey, conducted in 2019-20 in nearly 11,000 households in Himachal, found that 30.8 per cent children aged below five years are stunted in terms of their height-for-age. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)
More than 30 per cent children under the age of five years in Himachal Pradesh are stunted and more than 1/4th are underweight, according to the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS) released recently. The health of children in the state has taken a turn for the worse in terms of all three crucial indicators of nutrition stunting, wasting (low weight for height) and underweight, the survey has shown.
Post wedding season high, Covid curve flattening in HP
Himachal had witnessed a sharp rise in the number of new infections and deaths in November, a trend which the health officials repeatedly attributed to the wedding season. December 22, 2020 6:56:58 pm
A total of around 1.97 lakh people cast their votes for 401 ward members in 29 municipal councils and 21 nagar panchayats of the state
The wave of Covid-19 infections, which hit Himachal Pradesh in November, has been receding this month, with the state witnessing a 41 per cent decline in the number of active cases since the end of last month, according to the government data.
Himachal Pradesh: Remove ‘unjust’ criteria for contesting PRI polls, various groups demand
The groups have alleged that people from several marginalised communities in the state have been unjustly declared encroachers of forest or government land due to incomplete implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006. December 22, 2020 10:26:37 pm
A peaceful transfer of power would be a milestone for Niger, which has experienced four coups since gaining independence from France in 1960.
Fourteen organisations and individuals in Himachal Pradesh Tuesday jointly demanded the withdrawal of an eligibility condition, which bars anyone who has encroached on government land from contesting the upcoming panchayat elections in the state.