First snowfall of the season brings good tidings for Uttarakhand
The shower coupled with the snow is billed to be a timely gift for the rabi and horticulture crops of the state.
The shower coupled with the snow is billed to be a timely gift for the rabi and horticulture crops of the state.
Traffic was stalled and disrupted on the Gangotri-Yamunotri National Highway due to the falling and piling up of debris from landslides in the region
Traffic has been suspended and the Yamunotri pilgrimage halted as boulders continue to fall at many places on the Yamunotri Highway for the last three days as persistent rains continue to wreak havoc in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, officials said.
Following incessant rainfall in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, the Badrinath National Highway (NH-7) is blocked due to falling of boulders and debris from the hill, on highway near Pipalkotim, officials said on Thursday morning.
On Monday, the Meteorological Department issued an alert of rain and snowfall in the high Himalayan regions for the next 2-3 days.
Over five thousand devotees participated in the closing ceremony of Badrinath temple on Thursday.
The Uttarakhand Char Dham Devasthanam Management Board, a state government body managing the four shrines, announced the closing dates of the four famous Hindu temples located in Uttarakhand Himalayas on Sunday.
The increase in tourist movement has brought huge relief to businessmen and people involved in the tourism industry.
Amidst chanting of Vedic hymns and chant of ‘Ganga mata ki jai’ the Gangotri shrine, located in district Uttarkashi, reopened at 12:35 pm on Sunday. The portals of Yamunotri shrine were reopened, after six month of winter break, at 12.41 p.m.
With the economic and developmental activities accelerating at a fast pace, there has been a corresponding increase in human activities. While figures of a few lakhs of tourists and pilgrims are quoted, we often tend to overlook the related increase in vehicular traffic and particularly those of diesel vehicles. Since time immemorial, Ganga and Gangotri have been sacred to multitudes of our countrymen and hence the sensitivity about any regulatory measures in understandable. But ultimately these will have to be balanced.
