Q. Gamgul Siyabehi Wildlife Sanctuary located in which district?
Chamba
Description: Gamgul Siyabehi Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in the lap of Bhandal Valley in Chamba district. The northern area of the sanctuary shared boundary with Jammu and Kashmir. Gamgul Siyabehi Wildlife Sanctuary is considered only sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh where the endangered species of Kashmir Stag is found.
Q. Which Pass connects Chitkul with Harshil in Uttrakhand?
Lamkhaga Pass
Description: Lamkhaga Pass connects Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh with Harshil in Uttrakhand. The Lamkhaga Pass trek starts from Chitkul the last Village of Sangla valley in Himachal.
Q. Who mentioned Churdhar Peak in his book, The Great Arc?
John Keay
Description: The Churdhar Peak was mentioned in the book, The Great Arc, by John Keay. The Churdhar peal was referred by John Keay as The Chur.
Q. On which river bank Alexander erected huge altars as a mark of his invasion of India?
Answer – Beas
Description: Alexander, after gaining control of the former Achaemenid satrapy of Gandhara, including the city of Taxila, Alexander advanced into Punjab, where he engaged in battle against the regional king Porus, whom Alexander defeated in the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC.
Thereafter, Alexander’s marched east put him in confrontation with the Nanda Empire of Magadha and the Gangaridai of Bengal. As per documents, the Nanda army was supposedly five times larger than the Macedonian army.
Alexander’s army was exhausted, homesick, and anxious by the prospects of having to further face large Indian armies throughout the Indo-Gangetic Plain, mutinied at the Hyphasis (modern Beas River) and refused to march further east. Alexander, after a meeting with his officer, Coenus, and after hearing about the lament of his soldiers, eventually relented, being convinced that it was better to return. Alexander, then erected huge altars as a mark of his invasion of India. With the time those altars faded and completely demolished.
Q. Who have been conferred with Himachal Gaurav Puraskar-2020?
Writer and photographer Birbal Sharma, noted singer Balkrishan Sharma, noted Doctor Mangat Ram Dogra and folk singer Narender Thakur