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Himachal Pradesh has been hit hard by continuous rainfall, which has triggered landslides, cloudbursts and flash floods, causing severe damage to the fragile hill state.
The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism achieved some of its goals last year but was unable to meet other targets because of the Covid-19 outbreak.
BANGKOK, May 15 (Reuters): Thailand's economy likely shrank in the first quarter of this year, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, as coronavirus outbreaks in the beginning of 2021 hurt consumption and tourism, slowing the pace of the economic recovery. South-East Asia's second-largest economy, which is heavily reliant on tourism, likely contracted 3.3% in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to the median estimate of 11 economists in the poll. It slumped 4.2% in the final quarter of 2020. On a quarterly basis, gross domestic product (GDP) likely shrank a seasonally a...