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India is strange country- where language changes after every 50 kms. Some images from this great country which is IT giant, home to riots, strikes, train and road blocks, bomb blasts, terrori activities but still alive and kicking. This is that color which makes India move...to moon, to NASA, to get exploited by politicians and mafia.

The most alarming aspect of this week's horrific assault on Mumbai was the scale of the terrorists' ambition. The military-style attack was not only well planned and well orchestrated but, unusually, embraced an array of targets.

Residents of India's financial capital bore the brunt of onslaughts at the main railway station, the airport, a cinema and the city's southern police headquarters.

But, for the first time in India, Americans and Britons were specifically targeted as hostages were sought in attacks on two luxury hotels and a cafe frequented by tourists.

On the one hand, the breadth of the destruction obscured the terrorists' objectives. On the other, however, it confirmed that terrorism is as much, if not more, of a scourge as ever.

With the Mumbai terrorist attacks being a wake up call to one and all, the state governemnt has decided to re-establish all police posts along the inter-state borders, which had been withdrawn, especially in view of the fact that Himachal is a popular tourist destination for foreigners.

With the safety of tourists, especially foreigners being the prime concern of the governemnt, it has been decided that checking and surveillance would be intensified to ensure that no suspicious and anti-social elements sneak into the state by taking advantage of a relaxed security set up along the border areas which at present are highly porous.

Everyone knows about what happens and how it happens in mumbai. Media reports are coming in with more than 200 dead,  head are still counting and more than 325 injured.  Thanks to direct telecast - it took times to Indian agencies to understand that LIVE TELECAST is helping terrorits which were in direct link with their bosses on phones. They not only used Settelite phones but also phones of guests. Some important findings done by me in these two and half days of terror...I am a civilian and citizen of India..who saw whole narration on different channels, websites and papers during this attacks. My obeservations...

Kangra Fort still a great attraction for tourists

 The Kangra Fort still holds ample interest among both locals and foreign tourists- thanks to its reputation as a fort of stability, strength and strong fortifications which posed daunting challenge to invaders that it almost remained unmolested, weathering all assaults on its towering ramparts.

Kidnapping a young girl is not an offence in some remote areas of Kishtwar district in Jammu. Kidnapping a girl and then tying the nuptial knot with her is an age-old tradition in the Gandhari area of Paddar Tehsil of Kishtwar.

Commonly known as “pithchuk” in local dialect, this tradition of kidnapping a girl was earlier common in many parts of the Gandhari area, located just near the Pangi belt of Himachal Pradesh.

As per this tradition, a youth first kidnaps his would-be bride and after marrying her takes her to his house on his back.

Sati tredition and Himachal Pradesh

Though the sati custom was declared illegal in India by Lord William Bentick in 1829, it continued in the princely state of Mandi and officially came to an end with a nine-point treaty between raja Balbir Sen and the British government in 1846. The treaty, inter alia, required from the raja to rub out three other black spots too, “to put an end to the practice of slave dealing, female infanticide, and the burning or drowning of lepers who are opposed to British laws”.

It’s taken more than a century, but Einstein’s celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.

A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France’s Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world’s mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms.

According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons.

Four students of the CT Group of Institutions have designed an 800cc bike with their technical skills and creativity. The bike has been designed with technical expertise and unique features of power.

Encouraged by their first-ever attempt at making a bike, the four pass-outs of mechanical engineering, Manpuneet Singh, Manpreet Singh, Surinder Singh and Jaspreet Singh, took the initiative under the guidance of their project in charge and head of department Arvind Birdi. Extremely happy over the success of their endeavour, the students said they worked day and night to complete the project.

The government proposes to connect Chamba and Kangra areas, which have a sizeable concentration of Gaddi population, by boring a tunnel across the Dhauladhar range.

This was stated by Chief Minister P.K. Dhumal while addressing members of the Gaddi community here today. Members of the community had called on him to thank him for appointing Trilok Kapoor as the chairman of the state wool federation. He said the tunnel would link Uttrala (Baijnath) in Kangra and Holi in Chamba.