{"id":59121,"date":"2025-08-12T12:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=59121"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:05:33","slug":"talaq-e-hasan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/talaq-e-hasan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Talaq-E-Hasan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Sukhna Lake Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chandigarh Administration recently closed the floodgate at Sukhna Lake early morning after water levels receded.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sukhna Lake<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>artificial lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in the city of <\/span><b>Chandigarh <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the<\/span><b> foothills of the Shivalik hills.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This 3 sq.km. rain fed lake was <\/span><b>created in 1958 by damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> coming down from the Shivalik Hills.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is 1.52 km long and 1.49 km wide.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After completion in 1958, the water-spread area of the lake was 188 ha and the average depth was 4.69 m.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It had a depth of 18 feet originally, but due to heavy silt deposits, the depth reduced to 8 feet 6 inches and the area to 1. 5 sq.km.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is <\/span><b>fringed by a golf course to the south<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Nek Chand famous Rock Garden<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Chandigarh <\/span><b>to its west.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is declared <\/span><b>National\u00a0 Wetland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>During winter,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sukhna Lake t<\/span><b>ransforms into a haven for<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> diverse <\/span><b>migratory birds such as Siberian ducks, storks, and cranes, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hosting around 30 resident and migratory species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is also a <\/span><b>part of the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">Sukhna Lake has the <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">longest channel for rowing and yachting events in Asia.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/chandigarh\/chandigarh-sukhna-lake-floodgate-closed-after-water-level-recedes-10180119\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sukhna Lake is an artificial lake located in the city of Chandigarh at the foothills of the Shivalik hills. 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