{"id":301361,"date":"2018-08-13T05:20:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301361"},"modified":"2018-08-13T06:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T06:23:42","slug":"himachal-pradesh-heavy-rains-shuts-highways-schools-closed-in-shimla-mandi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-heavy-rains-shuts-highways-schools-closed-in-shimla-mandi\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh: Heavy Rains shuts highways, schools closed in Shimla, Mandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301368 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/rains-hp-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rains-hp-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rains-hp-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rains-hp-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rains-hp-696x467.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rains-hp-626x420.jpg 626w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rains-hp.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/>Several highways of Himachal Pradesh remained closed to traffic on Monday after heavy overnight rains as hundreds of travelers and commuters remain stranded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to district officials, Chandigarh-Manali National Highway-21 has been closed to traffic near Mandi town and Chandigarh-Shimla National Highway-5 was also obstructed near Jabli and kandaghat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After landslides occurred at several points on the Hindustan-Tibet Road in Kinnaur district, traffic was halted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As a precautionary measure, the district administrations of Shimla and Mandi directed to close all schools and educational institutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Met office has forecast heavy rains across the state till Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several highways of Himachal Pradesh remained closed to traffic on Monday after heavy overnight rains as hundreds of travelers and commuters remain stranded. According to district officials, Chandigarh-Manali National Highway-21 has been closed to traffic near Mandi town and Chandigarh-Shimla National Highway-5 was also obstructed near Jabli and kandaghat. After landslides occurred at several points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[1340,2658,2662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301369,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301361\/revisions\/301369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}