In the 1208 schools that were looked into on that particular day, the authorities were more than taken aback when they found that over 25400 students were missing from their classes. It did not gel that such a large number of children decided to play truant on that one day, or were sick and did not attend school for valid reasons.
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Apple is the only fruit that is widely found in different mythologies from the Greek, Chinese to famous ‘Adam and Eve story’- signified as a blessing to symbol of peace and sin.
A flood in Kiri rivulet in June 2012 had damaged its bridge. The vital bridge was used to connect 13 villages of Pin valley with rest of the state. Two years have passed and Kiri rivulet is in spate again but government has made no provision to build a bridge or provide an alternative route to connect the marooned villages.
The bridge, constructed in 1904 by Maharaja of Patiala, was built by a Calcutta firm.
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New Delhi: National Human Rights Commission here today red flagged the Himachal Pradesh government over media reports that sex ratio in Una district has…