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Indrahar Pass connects Kangra with which district?
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Chamba
Indrahar Pass connects Kangra with Chamba district. Quick facts about Indrahar Pass:
1. Indrahar pass forms the border between Kangra and Chamba districts.
2. Indrahar Pass is a mountain pass in the Dhauladhar range
3. Indrahar Pass is at an altitude of 4,342 meters (14,245 feet)
4. Indrahar Pass is near the tourist town of Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh
5. Indrahar Pass part of a very popular trekking route from Dharamshala.
6. It attracts thousands of tourists from across the world during the trekking season between April – October every year.
Saach Pass is situated in which district?

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Chamba
Description: Saach Pass is a 4,420-metre-high mountain pass in Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh, India on the Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas.
Sach Pass connects the Chamba valley with the Pangi valleys of Himachal Pradesh.
In Which year Chamba Massacre took place?

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3 August 1998
Description: The 1998 Chamba Massacre was happened in 1998, in which thirty-five Hindus was gunned down by Islamic terrorists in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh.
The Pakistan-trained Islamic terrorists massacred 35 Hindus, mostly labourers, and injured 11. Chamba district share border with Doda in Jammu.
The massacre took place in two separate incidents at Kalaban and Satrundi. Twenty-six people were killed and eight injured in the Kalaban area under Police Station Tissa of Chamba District. In another incident five people were killed and three injured in village Satrindi, District Chamba.
Police came to know of the incident only in the morning. The police personnel at the Mansa outpost were unaware of the incident although the terrorists fired several rounds at the victims. The authorities were initially aware of only the killings at Kalaban. It was late in the afternoon that reports of the terrorist strike at Satrundi were received. This was the first such incident in Himachal Pradesh.
Three Zero Campaign is associated with which disease?

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Ans: AIDS
Description: The Himachal Pradesh Government has launched a decisive campaign against AIDS with the goal of three zero which includes Zero infection, Zero death and Zero discrimination.
Shingo La connects Himachal with which Indian region?

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Ladakh
Description: Shingo-la is a mountain pass in India, on the border between Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh. There is a shallow lake or pool 20m below the pass. The pass is on a long-distance footpath linking Zanskar and Lahaul, used often by locals and trekkers alike.
This pass may be considered as an entry point to Lugnak Valley in Zanskar. The nearest inhabited village on Zanskar side is Kurgiakh and on the Lahaul side is Chikka.

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