Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates new Multi-Agency Centre at North BlockUnion Home Minister Amit Shah launched the new Multi-Agency Centre. He lauded 'Operation Sindhur' for its success. The Indo-Tibetan Border ...
16 May, 2025, 04.43 PM IST
Mingma G Sherpa: First Nepali to summit all 14 peaks above 8000m without supplemental oxygenMingma G Sherpa is the first Nepali mountaineer to climb all 14 peaks above 8,000 metres without using supplemental oxygen. He was honoured...
03 Jan, 2025, 05.56 PM IST
Is Mount Everest still rising? The surprising truth behind its growthMount Everest continues to grow in height due to isostatic rebound, a process linked to the merger of the Kosi and Arun rivers about 89,000...
01 Oct, 2024, 11.37 AM IST
Purnima Shrestha of Nepal breaks the record by climbing Mount Everest three times in two weeksNepali photojournalist Purnima Shrestha achieves record-breaking feat by summiting Mount Everest thrice in one climbing season, making hist...
25 May, 2024, 03.58 PM IST
Everest 'dry, more rocky,' says british record-holding climberMount Everest is losing snow and turning "dry and rocky", British climber Kenton Cool, who made his 17th ascent of the world's highest peak...
20 May, 2023, 11.33 PM IST
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...
18 May, 2023, 12.03 PM IST
Record-setter mountaineer Savita Kanswal among those killed in Uttarakhand avalancheA 41-member team of mountaineers was returning after climbing the peak when they were hit by the avalanche on Tuesday. Kanswal worked as an...
05 Oct, 2022, 03.17 PM IST
Mountaineer Savita Kanswal clocks national record for scaling Mount Everest, completes 10 expeditionsHer expedition is backed by crowdfunding where hundreds of people contributed to support her.
06 Jun, 2022, 08.07 AM IST
MHA opens up 137 peaks in India to foreigners for mountaineering and trekking purposesThe decision comes following a proposal from the tourism ministry.
21 Aug, 2019, 04.41 PM IST
On return, army team stays mum on Yeti footprint claimsThe expedition was flagged off on March 26, and several officials privy to the expedition said the team has recently returned to India.
13 Jun, 2019, 08.15 AM IST
Nepal Army, wildlife officer dismiss Indian Army's Yeti claimOn Monday, the Army claimed its mountaineering expedition team in Nepal found mysterious large footprints in the snow that they believe bel...
03 May, 2019, 05.55 PM IST
Army’s ‘Yeti’ pic draws disbelief, ridicule onlineSenior scientist Dr S Sathyakumar said that the footprints could be those of the Tibetan brown bear.
01 May, 2019, 12.57 PM IST
A foreign hand afoot in the Himalayas?An F16 is a more accepted object than Nessie or yeti, and more easily identifiable too.
01 May, 2019, 08.08 AM IST
Mysterious footprints found in the Himalayas. Army says it could be of mythical snowman"This elusive snowman has only been sighted at Makalu-Barun National Park in the past," the Indian Army tweeted earlier.
30 Apr, 2019, 01.44 PM IST
Darjeeling gets snow leopard from UK, another from France soonDarjeeling zoo, left with eight female and a lone male snow leopard, has now got a male big cat from England while another from France will...
26 Jun, 2016, 01.30 PM IST
Darjeeling gets snow leopard from UK, another from France soonDarjeeling zoo runs a special conservation breeding programme for snow leopards, an endangered species whose survival is challenged by poac...
26 Jun, 2016, 11.53 AM IST
- Garware Offshore takes delivery of vessel
Garware Offshore Services today said it has taken delivery of a Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) in Norway.
27 Jun, 2008, 07.59 PM IST