Tourists were seen gleefully playing in the snow, couples strolling and enjoying the serene beauty, friends and families capturing memories with photographs, and groups dancing and celebrating amid the white expanse

Veteran litterateur Jiten Thakur was awarded the Uttarakhand Sahitya Bhushan Samman, the state’s highest literary honour, by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in Dehradun. The ceremony also recognised several other writers and highlighted the state’s push to promote literature through initiatives like ‘Sahitya Grams’