11.   For centuries, people in India have fled to its Himalayan foothills to escape the heat.

12.   Hours before the mass cremation, workers stacked wood into funeral pyres by the Balasan river that meanders through Himalayan foothills.

13.   India challenged the order because Basmati rice is traditionally grown by farmers in the Himalayan foothills of northwest India and in Pakistan.

14.   Indian soldiers on Saturday rescued all but eight people who were trapped by a winter storm in a highway tunnel in the Himalayan foothills, state officials said.

15.   Jammu-Kashmir, a northern state in the Himalayan foothills, is the only one in mostly Hindu India with a Muslim majority.

16.   Medha Patkar was taken into custody before she could reach Tehri in the Himalayan foothills, United News of India reported.

17.   Megawati was spending Monday resting in Rishikesh, a Hindu religious town in the Himalayan foothills, the Indonesian Embassy said.

18.   Megawati will spend Monday afternoon resting in Rishikesh, a Hindu religious town in the Himalayan foothills, according to an officer at the Indonesian Embassy.

19.   Medha Patkar was taken into custody before she could reach Tehri, where the dam is being constructing in the Himalayan foothills, United News of India reported.

20.   Rains also extinguished forest fires in the Himalayan foothills in Himachal Pradesh and the hills of Uttar Pradesh states, Press Trust said.