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Senior officials of the defence ministry and PSU BEL ink the mountain radar deal in New Delhi on Tuesday NEW DELHI: The defence ministry has inked a major capital acquisition contract with PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for the procurement of two mountain radars, including associated equipment and infrastructure, for the Indian Air Force, at…
Witness the pristine natural wonder surrounded by snowcapped peaks, mountains inspired by its jagged ridges, with nearby Lake Langui at over 4,700 metres above sea level in Cusco. Discover Pallay Punchu, the place where Apus is still honoured by the ancient spiritual practices. According to the Peru tourism official website, this place is also known…
One of the most iconic high-altitude road journeys in the country, the Manali to Leh drive is a 475 km-long journey. This road is typically open from June to September. This road takes you through several high-altitude mountain passes such as the Rohtang Pass, which is now avoided through the Atal Tunnel, Baralacha La Pass,…
Picture Credit: AI Generated Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa, since the Archean Eon which is roughly 2.7 billion years old. This isn’t just an ordinary heap of debris sitting on metals; it’s one of the main contributing factors in the geology as well as the economy of the whole continent. The landscape across Johannesburg looks…
Pushkar town in Rajasthan I grew up in Dima Hasao (erstwhile North Cachar Hills) in Assam, Shillong, and Hoz in Arunachal Pradesh, places where hills are part of daily life. In these places, you don’t “go to hills”, you are already surrounded by them. They are green, layered, and almost always wrapped in clouds. Because…
Everest wasn’t always a mountain! These 200 million-year-old marine fossils prove the Himalaya was once underwater Imagine standing 8,000 metres above the sea floor at Mount Everest, and you find a marine fossil. You should not be surprised because fossils of marine animals have been documented near the summit of Mount Everest, findings that continue…
NEW DELHI: Minutes after taking oath as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, Sunetra Pawar on Saturday said that she will “carry forward the legacy” of her late husband Ajit Pawar and “continue to work tirelessly” for Maharashtra.In her first public reaction after Ajit Pawar’s death in a fatal plane crash, Sunetra said that she…
Representative image (ANI) JAMMU: Ten Army soldiers were killed and 11 wounded around noon Thursday when an armoured troop carrier skidded off a narrow mountain road in J&K and plunged nearly 200ft into a gorge. The six-wheel truck was heading to a counterterrorism operation in the upper reaches of Doda district, a remote, forested area…
Russia witnesses record winter: Entire neighbourhoods buried under mountain of snow — watch Parts of Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula are reeling under extreme and record-breaking snowfall, with powerful winter storms dumping several metres of snow and bringing daily life to a near standstill.Footage has emerged showing heavy snowfall in Russia that lasted for four…
In the era of high-speed rail and overnight flights, India’s mountain trains still chug along at a different speed. The chug along slowly, and pause frequently, for you to take in the scenery, which is so jaw-droppingly beautiful from every angle that you would actually want to spend time there. Speed was never in the…
