The team trekked for 22 kilometres to reach the herds of Gaddi shepherds near Chandrataal in the tribal Lahaul & Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.

If she wins, Rana will become the second woman legislator to represent the seat in the assembly after Lata Thakur, who won the constituency for INC in 1972. 

The party has yet to pick up a candidate for the Dharamshala Assembly by-poll, former BJP minister, Ram Lal Markanda, who resigned from BJP after Congress rebel, Ravi Thakur, got a BJP ticket and had announced that he may contest from Congress, left sulking.

Even as there is much reaction in the BJP against the decision to give a party ticket to Congress rebel, Ravi Thakur in the Lahaul & Spiti Assembly constituency of Himachal Pradesh for a by-poll on June 1, things are not fine in the Congress too.

Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu intervened to get Dorje, 70, airlifted by IAF chopper from snow bound Lahaul Spiti for immediate medical treatment outside Lahaul 

The 81 tourists stranded in Spiti Valley in Lahaul and Spiti district were on Sunday night shifted to and accommodated in different hotels and homestays there, as per police statement.  

The MeT office has cautioned that essential services like electricity, water, and communication could be affected. The minimum temperatures rose by a few notches and stayed two to eight degrees above normal, it said.  

Lahaul and Spiti: Local artists perform the traditional dance 'Nati' during the inauguration of Ice Hockey Cup 2024 and Ice Speed Skates at an ice hockey rink at Kaza, in Lahaul and Spiti district, Himachal Pradesh. In the background are the snow-capped mighty Himalayas, that surround the picturesque valley.