{"id":8301,"date":"2023-04-05T02:49:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8301"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:42:49","slug":"key-facts-about-nathu-la-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-nathu-la-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Nathu La Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Nathu La Pass:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is a mountain pass in the <strong>Himalayas in the East Sikkim district.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Altitude<\/strong>: It is situated at an altitude of <strong>4302 m <\/strong>and is <strong>one of the<\/strong> <strong>highest motorable roads in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nathu means &#8220;listening ears&#8221;, and La means &#8220;pass&#8221; in Tibetan. It forms a <strong>part of an offshoot of the ancient Silk Road.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nathu La <strong>connects the Indian state of Sikkim with China&#8217;s Tibet Autonomous Region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>guarded <\/strong>on both sides <strong>by Chinese and Indian soldiers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nathu La is <strong>one of the three open trading border posts between India and China<\/strong>; <strong>the other two <\/strong>are in Himachal Pradesh (<strong>Shipkila<\/strong> ) and Uttarakhand (<strong>Lipulekh<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sealed by India after the 1962 Sino-Indian<\/strong> War, Nathu La was <strong>re-opened in 2006<\/strong> following numerous bilateral trade agreements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an avalanche?<\/h3>\n<p>An avalanche is a mass of material moving rapidly down a slope. An avalanche is typically triggered when material on a slope breaks loose from its surroundings; this material then quickly collects and carries additional material down the slope. There are various kinds of avalanches, including rock avalanches, ice avalanches , and debris avalanches .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbctv18.com\/india\/sikkim-avalanche-nathula-live-updates-gangtok-weather-16332941.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Sikkim Avalanche Highlights: 7 dead, at least 150 trapped at Nathu La; no respite from snow soon: IMD<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathu La Pass  is a mountain pass in the Himalayas in the East Sikkim district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}