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Major milestone in Bullet train project: First mountain tunnel breakthrough achieved in Maharashtra’s Palghar

(Image: National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) NEW DELHI: India’s bullet train corridor marked a major milestone on Friday with the breakthrough of a high-speed mountain tunnel in Maharashtra’s Palghar district.Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw virtually witnessed the final breakthrough of the 1.5-km-long Mountain Tunnel-5 (MT-5) from Rail Bhawan in New Delhi. This is the first…

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Mountain older than memory: How new ‘definition’ of Aravalli risks undercutting ‘Viksit Bharat’ | India News

Aravalli: Mountain older than memory If demography can be a dividend, geography certainly decides its destiny. Few landscapes illustrate this more clearly than the Aravalli Range, an ancient chain of hills that quietly shapes water security, climate, and life across western and northwestern India.The hills that run for nearly 690 km from Gujarat through Rajasthan…

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Nepal: 7 killed in avalanche on Yalung Ri mountain; 5 foreign climbers among dead

An avalanche struck a mountaineering camp on Mount Yalung Ri in Nepal on Monday, killing seven people, including five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, reported news agency AFP citing officials.Armed Police Force spokesperson Shailendra Thapa said five others were injured in the incident, which occurred at the mountain’s base camp situated around 4,900 meters…

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Ayan Mukerji teases ‘Brahmastra 2’; director’s cryptic post from mountain getaway sparks frenzy about Astraverse |

Filmmaker Ayan Mukerji has seemingly moved on from his action film ‘War 2’ and is now getting work underway for the next chapter in the Astraverse. The director, who headed for the hills after wrapping up work on the spy saga, took to his social meida handle over the weekend, to share photos from his…

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Tamil Nadu weather: Heavy rains trigger landslides; train services on Nilgiri Mountain Railway cancelled | Chennai News

NEW DELHI: Train services on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway were cancelled on Sunday due to heavy rains and multiple landslides, while the India Meteorological Department warned of a developing low-pressure system in the Bay of Bengal that could intensify into a deep depression, prompting fishing advisories in Tamil Nadu’s coastal regions.Southern Railway reported multiple “earth…

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