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Farah Khan enjoys sun, hailstorm, mood changes on Mussoorie vacation. 5 offbeat summer activities for travellersFilmmaker Farah Khan is enjoying a refreshing vacation in Mussoorie, embracing the hill station's recent drop in temperature due to heavy r...- Bengaluru's hidden role in measuring Mount Everest: The untold story of India's mapping journeyBengaluru’s Mekhri Circle marks the starting point of an extraordinary scientific journey—the Great Trigonometric Survey of India, which le...
- Planning a trip to Uttarakhand? Best time to visit, places to go to, how much it will cost, where to stayIf, instead of foreign holidays, you prefer to travel within India, here’s a series to help you plan the best vacations in each of the 28 s...
- Has Mt. Everest become world's highest ice-covered cemetery? Special mission to bring back remains of mountaineers. Details hereAs temperatures go up due to climate change, the snow cover of the world's highest peak Mt. Everest thins, and bodies of deceased climbers ...
- India's first astro tourism campaign begins in MussoorieIndia's first astro tourism campaign 'Nakshatra Sabha' was inaugurated at the George Everest peak in Mussoorie, offering spectacular views ...
- How did a poor sherpa climb Mt Everest 29 times? Know his struggles, and achievements in detailSherpa Kami Rita has scaled Mt Everest for the 29th time since 1994. He has broken his record. The government of Nepal facilitated the requ...
- Who is Tenzing Norgay? Why is his birthday on May 29th celebrated as Everest DayTenzing Norgay's birthday on 29th May is rightly accorded as Everest Day. Coincidentally the summit was conquered by him along with Edmund ...
- View: By providing entrepreneurs access to geospatial data, India is sitting on data — and economic — richesThis policy change is not just about killing red tape. Instead, it is about the imminent convergence between the physical and digital world...
- How an IPS officer is changing the fortunes of students from marginalised communities in TelanganaIn an amazing feat of institutional transformation, this IPS officer turned a moribund network of state-run social welfare schools into a p...
- A new high point: Now there’s WhatsApp from the top of Everest for telephonyA state-run Chinese service provider claims to have enabled 5G connectivity on the summit of Everest.
- Website launched for government map download, but Aadhaar mandatoryUsing Aadhaar number, a person can download three maps every day from the portal (http://soinakshe.uk.gov.in/) launched today.
- Survey General of India completes 250 yearsAs the institute, one of the oldest scientific establishments in India, completes 250 years tomorrow, it continues to touch the life of the...
- On 250th birthday, SOI wants to shed its cloak of secrecyTill now a cumbersome paper trail was the only way to procure these maps and most of the data especially pertaining to the border regions a...
- Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar first to identify Everest as highest mountain peakIndian mathematician and surveyor Radhanath Sikdar was probably the first person to identify that Mount Everest was the world's highest pea...
- My passion for mountaineering developed in school days: Rahul Rana, PAYBACK India CEORana's passion for mountaineering developed while studying at St Paul's, a boarding school for boys in Darjeeling.
- Lok Sabha polls 2014: Bharat Ratna for Tenzing if BJP voted to power, says AhluwaliaS S Ahluwalia said, "Successive governments had not even taken a Cabinet decision to recommend Tenzing Norgay's name for a Bharat Ratna to ...
- Pristine getawayThanks to some timely laws, the 19th century hill station of Landour has remained unspoilt by modern constructions, and is the perfect plac...
- Sir Edmund Hillary: First man to conquer Mount Everest diesEdmund Hillary, who defied the failed efforts of countless climbers by reaching the peak of Mount Everest, has died. He was 88.
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