Snowfall in the higher reaches of the Himalayas in Kullu and Lahaul Valley has brought life to a standstill. The Manali-Keylong National Highway-21 is blocked because of heavy snowfall at the Rohtang Pass. Rohtang received …
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From Kullu to Mount Everest, via Siachen
Two students, Rajat and Kheemi Ram, from the Government High School Manali have been selected for an expedition to the Mount Everest peak in Nepal this year. The expedition starts in April next year. In …
Continue readingIce Skating sessions start again in Shimla
After clouds played party-pooper last week, Ice Skating rink in Shimla is opened again for the morning skating sessions. However, evening sessions are yet to be started. The Municipal Corporation had to take down the …
Continue readingMercury dips in Himachal, White December highly likely
Shimla received its first snowfall of the season on December 11, and if we consider those tiny white flakes sporadically falling from the sky since December 4, then it was the third snowfall of the …
Continue readingMigratory Birds: Four Lakh at Chillika, Two Lakh at the Pong Dam
At least four lakh migratory birds have so far thronged to Odisha’s Chilika Lake – India’s largest brackish water lagoon as of 6 December 2012. Three lakh birds have been sighted on the lake’s Nalabana …
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