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Mashobra is notable for housing one of the two Presidential retreats in India. The other retreat is Rashtrapati Nilayam in Secunderabad. The president visits Mashobra at least once every year, and during this time his or her core office shifts to the retreat at Chharabra, in the vicinity of Mashobra. The building housing the retreat is a ...
It is located 13 km away from the city Shimla and is a thousand feet higher than the Shimla Ridge Top, which is part of the Himalayas. The other presidential homes are Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi , Rashtrapati Ashiana in Dehradun , Uttarakhand, and Rashtrapati Nilayam in Hyderabad , Telangana.
Tara Devi temple was built by Sen dynasty kings sometime around 1766 A.D. [1] The fort of Giri Sen is still there in Junga. [2]According to a story which traces back to 250 years, [3] the king Bhupendra Sen built the temple and after he had a vision in which Goddess Tara Devi asked him to install a template there so that people could get her blessings.
Viceregal Lodge, formerly known as The Rashtrapati Niwas (lit. ' President's Residence '), is located on the Observatory Hills of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. [1] [2] [3] It was formerly the residence of the British Viceroy of India.
Varanasi or Kashi, holy city in India, known as Shivpur - the city of Shiva; Shivpur or seepur, Mashobra Shimla; Shivpuri or Shivapura, Madhya Pradesh; Shibpur or Shivapura, West Bengal; Sivapuram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu; Sivapuram, Kerala, a village in Kannur district; Sivapuram, Tamil Nadu, a village in Thanjavur district
The Lahaul and Spiti district is a high-altitude district in Himachal Pradesh, north India.This entirely mountainous district consists of two geographically distinct as well as formerly separate political-administrative units, called Lahaul (Tibetan: གར་ཞ་, Wylie: gar zha) and Spiti (Tibetan: སྤི་ཏི་, Wylie: spi ti; or Tibetan: སྤྱི་ཏི, Wylie: spyi ti).
A fact from Mashobra appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 July 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the Presidential office of India operates from The Retreat at Mashobra in Himachal Pradesh, India at least once every year? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions ...
Chharabra is a small village situated approximately 8250 feet (2514 m) above sea level, 13 km from Shimla, India, on National Highway 22 (Hindustan-Tibet Road).. It has the summer retreat of President of India, the summer residence of Governor of Punjab, a five star luxury hotel, a boarding school, and a helipad, even though the population is less than 500 people (including boarding school ...