Record 13 lakh bookings for Chardham Pilgrimage in eight days
The State Tourism Department called it a sign of record breaking flow of pilgrims to the four shrines as the pilgrimage season is scheduled to start on May 10.
The State Tourism Department called it a sign of record breaking flow of pilgrims to the four shrines as the pilgrimage season is scheduled to start on May 10.
The shower coupled with the snow is billed to be a timely gift for the rabi and horticulture crops of the state.
The ITBP platoons were deployed at Badrinath and Kedarnath shrines on Sunday as the Centre agreed to the Pushkar Singh Dhami government's demand that better security arrangents were needed in the area during winters.
BSP supremo Mayawati slammed SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya, saying it is a purely political statement only giving rise to new controversies.
Earlier, the road near Nandaprayag and Pursari on the Badrinath National Highway was blocked due to the pile-up of debris from the hills.
The issue of clicking photos in the sanctum sanctorum of Famous Hindu shrine of Kedarnath in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand has again hit the headlines following photo of a famous religious preacher Morari Bapu going viral and Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee (BKTC) imposing a fine on the person who clicked the photo and made it viral on social media.
Uttarkashi district disaster management officials said that due to heavy rains near Gangnani in the Barkot area, there has been a lot of debris and stones on the Yamunotri National Highway.
The Badrinath national highway in Uttarakhand has been again shut on Saturday due to landslide after it reopened for traffic…
On Monday, the Meteorological Department issued an alert of rain and snowfall in the high Himalayan regions for the next 2-3 days.
Ravi Saini said that there are adequate arrangements for staying in Srinagar, and the passengers will not face any kind of problem.