Shimla

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Food truck provides a bright spot to Himachal’s rural women

Purusharth Jamwal, a marine engineering graduate and entrepreneur, helps makers of artisanal food products who have limited access to markets and whose businesses were hit hard by the Covid pandemic.

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Extreme weather events destroy Himachal’s apple orchards

Unseasonal rains, snow fall and hailstorms have damaged lakhs of apple trees, ruining Shimla’s famed fruits. This has dented the orchardists’ income and government’s revenue