Himachal Pradesh faces an unusually dry December with a 100% rainfall deficit. Popular tourist spots like Shimla, Manali, and Kurfi await their first snowfall, prompting the Shimla Winter Carnival to use cotton snow for celebrations.
The three-day fair, which commenced on Thursday, features three stalls for exhibition and sale set up by the JICA Forestry Project.
The Congress on Sunday evening announced the candidature of Anuradha Rana for Lahaul and Spiti and Subhash Chand for Barsar.
Thirty college students, who were travelling from Spiti to Manali, have been rescued to safety after snapping of the road link owing to flash floods and landslides in high mountains in Himachal Pradesh, officials said on Sunday.
The bus service will facilitate the direct travellers from Delhi to Leh via Keylong, in two shifts from Keylong to Leh and Leh to Delhi.
Once considered to be on the verge of extinction, the population of these horses reached up to 4,000.
The tunnel, costing Rs 3500 crore, was the dream project of former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and is hence named Atal tunnel.
The Congress leader said the BJP government had failed to solve the problems of people in the state in COVID-19 crisis
The black peas- a pulse- are smaller in size and have a greater shelf life (upto two years) than the green peas.
The six-eight-month-old wild animal is housed at the animal quarantine centre in Himalayan Nature Park at Kufri, 18 kilometres away from state capital Shimla for last two days.
