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Bengal climbers make history in Ladakh, propose peaks named after Tenzing, Hillary, NetajiA mountaineering team from West Bengal successfully completed four significant ascents in eastern Ladakh. The team climbed the challenging ...
Unseasonably heavy snowfall halts Everest tourism in Nepal, TibetMount Everest's Nepali and Chinese sides are closed to tourism due to unseasonally heavy snow, with a helicopter crashing while attempting ...
He conquered 13 peaks but perished when he tried to descend from Mt. Everest. Who was Subrata Ghosh?Subrata Ghosh, a 44-year-old mountaineer and schoolteacher from West Bengal, tragically died while descending Mount Everest shortly after r...
Backpacker hostel chain The Hosteller raises Rs 48 crore led by V3 VenturesFounded in 2014, it plans to expand from 2,500 to 10,000 beds across India within 18 months, focusing on property expansion and customer ac...
Political stability, high-level meetings with Indian & Chinese leaderships and quakes marked Nepal's 2023Nepal-India relations got a renewed boost as Prime Minister Prachanda met India's Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra here on February 13....
Mountaineer Piyali Basak from West Bengal stuck on Nepal's Mount Makalu, sherpa rescuedPiyali Basak, a Bengali mountaineer, is reportedly stuck on Mount Makalu (8,481m), the fifth-highest peak in the world. Basak has been stuc...
The British found a range of Indian hill stations to run away from India. Now, we have decided to maraud every hill stationThe British found a range of Indian hill stations to run away from India. Now, we have decided to maraud every hill station
Cyclone leaves coastal villages in eastern India, Bangladesh cut off by tidal surgesCyclone Yaas ripped through the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Wednesday packing gusts of up to 140 kph (87 mph) and whipping up tidal s...
From home cooked meals to arranging oxygen, Indians reach out with helping hand as country witnesses gravest Covid crisisThe goodness runs like an undercurrent through the tragic times.
Vishal Gondal's Mt. Everest climb lesson: don't scale up your company very fastGondal, founder of fitness company GoQii, & six others, including his wife Harpreet, started the ascent to the base camp on May 1.
Lack of cash makes the young climbers desperate: Veteran mountaineer Basanta Singha Ray"Many climbers from Bengal who attempt the Everest come from poor families. Thus, there is immense pressure to become successful on the fir...
Riding piggy-back on local allies: Is there a pattern to BJP's growth across the country?However long it lasts in Maharashtra, the BJP brand of climber-politics is only expanding its footprint. The next fertile stops for the par...
Rarely seen clouded leopard photographedOne of the most elusive cats in the world, the clouded leopard, has been photographed in North Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve.
Rahul Gandhi followed his father Rajiv with apolitical backroom boys, snubbing deep-rooted generalsRahul’s real failure was his refusal to learn his mother’s strength. Sonia understood her limitations. Rahul made the “mistakes” of Rajiv.
- Green cover loss spells doom for animals
Kolkata is home to three highly endangered and an endangered species of animals. But the rate at which the city is losing its green cover a...
Labour shortage cripples plantation sectorShortage of labour is now threatening to paralyse the plantation of south.
- Hungry Aila tide swallows a dozen tigers
As the human toll from Monday’s cyclone rose to 64, beat officers and range officials in the Sunderbans feared hundreds of herbivores and a...
- Cyclone Aila swallows Sunderbans tigers
Forest wardens fear that as the cyclone Aila tore through the Sunderbans, it may have killed more than a dozen of the highly endangered Ben...
- Histori-city
Bhubaneswar is hardly the place that evokes instant recall of any kind, even though it’s the capital of a state much in the news these days...