Q. Which Panchayat has become 1st Panchayat connected with high-speed internet using satellite-based VSAT link?
Kolong Gram Panchayat of Lahaul Spiti district
Description: Kolong Gram Panchayat of Lahaul Spiti district has become the first Panchayat connected with the high-speed internet using satellite-based VSAT link.
Total 153 Gram Panchayats of Lahaul Spiti, Kinnaur, Pangi and Bharmour will be connected with high-speed internet. It’s under Bharat Net project – being funded by the government of India and coordinated by Department of Information and Technology of Himachal Pradesh.
Q. Which river forms the boundary between Himachal Pradesh and the state of Jammu and Kashmir?
Answer: Chenab River.
Q. River of Sorrow is?
Swan River, Una District
Q. Borasu Pass Connects Himachal with which state?
Uttrakhand
Description: Borasu Pass (el. 5,450 m or 17,880 ft) connects Kinnaur district of Himachal to Uttrakhand. Borasu pass was an ancient trade route between Har ki Doon valley and Kinnaur valley. Borasu Pass divides Uttarakhand from Himachal Pradesh.
The pass is located only a few kilometers from the Tibet border.
The east part of the Borasu area comes out from Tons valley and the north-west part is merged with Baspa valley. Its north-west range comes down on Jhukia Glacier. The nearest village, Chitkul, is 20.3 km away from the pass on the Himachal (Kinnaur valley) side and Osla village on the Uttarakhand side of the pass.
Q. In Which year Chamba Massacre took place?
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.