City page for July 12

Weather

Forecast (July 12): Rain and thundershowers at most places in low and middle hills, rain and snow at many places in high hills.

Temperatures

Shimla: 24.8 (max), 18.4 (min) Degrees Celsius, Sunrise: 05:26 am, sunset: 07:28 pm

Dharamshala: 28.8 (max), 19.2 (min) Degrees Celsius

Manali: 22.8 (max), minus 19.4 (min) Degrees Celsius

Readers say

Drinking water pipes leaking

Drinking water pipes are leaking on the roadside at Paho Ghati near Jubbarhatti. The IPH department should immediately repair the leaking pipes as water is being wasted and has made the road risky for two-wheelers. Every year, Shimla and adjoining areas faces acute shortage of water and such wastage should be stopped. Nisha, a local resident

Traffic snarls

The multi-storey parking on Cart Road and intersections points has turned into traffic bottlenecks during weekends with a surge in tourist rush. Some of the parking spaces have the same entry and exit points, which lead to congestion. To add to it, traffic from over 50 roads joining the main road aggravates the situation. Despite heavy deployment of police on the main road to maintain traffic, the Shimla administration should come up with a permanent solution to the problem. Sandeep, Shimla resident

Education notes

Govt Dental College ranks 7th in survey

Himachal Pradesh Government Dental College, Shimla, has figured at the seventh position in the ‘most-economical colleges’ category in the country as per the survey conducted by a magazine. Principal Ashu Gupta congratulated the students and teachers for the achievement and informed that the college was ranked 27th overall. The parameters for assessment included quality intake and governance, academic performance, infrastructure and atmosphere, leadership and personality and placements.

Academic activities held

Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (DBT) of Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, organised several academic events during the pandemic. Apart from the first batch of MSc bio-technology programme, which began last year, a new postgraduate programme, MSc Microbiology, will begin this year. The department, in collaboration with HIMCOSTE, imparted training to two batches of undergraduate science students under the DBT Skill Vigyan Programme. Two patents were also granted in the lockdown and 89 per cent placement of its final year students was achieved. Five students from the department received PhD degrees in the fields of bio-technology and bio-informatics with many students getting selected for Masters and PhD programmes in the US and European universities.

ABVP creates new unit

The ABVP created a new unit, Vivekananda Nagar (Summerhill), and has named the elected office-bearers. Dr Sunita Dogra and Gaurav were elected president and secretary of the unit. President of the Himachal Pradesh University campus Vikas Saklani said the new unit was very important in the sense that ABVP was the biggest student organisation in the world. During the pandemic, volunteers of the ABVP had put in best efforts to help the infected people. We will continue with our endeavours to make sure that everyone gets through the pandemic.