In pictures: Shimla gets season’s first snow
A white morning greeted the queen of hills, Shimla, bringing cheers to residents and tourists as the capital town received its first moderate snowfall. Tourists thronged to...
Take a virtual journey to the beautiful Himalayas where saffron is produced
The Saffron Crocus (Crocus sativus) blooms in Kashmir Valley, surrounded by the Himalayas on all sides, for only two weeks a year.
At the end of autumn, usually...
Stipend for girls, sops for farmers in Assam budget
The Assam government announced an annual stipend for girls in the State to purchase sanitary napkins and scholarships for those belonging to minority communities, besides a zero-interest crop...
LAND OF THE THUNDER DRAGON—BHUTAN IN PICTURES
1.Land of the Thunder Dragon
Bhutan, fondly referred to as Land of the Thunder Dragon is a nation that leads by example. Besides the staggering natural beauty of...
Journalist Elizabeth Hawley passed away in Nepal
American journalist Elizabeth Hawley, known for chronicling expeditions to Himalayan peaks, died at a hospital in Kathmandu on Friday. She was 94. Hawley was considered a “leading authority”...
Mega Food Park in Uttarakhand
Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal inaugurated the second mega food park in Uttarakhand in the Udham Singh Nagar District. The over 50-acre Himalayan Mega...
Hundred pc funding for Central projects in North East
The Narendra Modi Government has decided to fully fund various Central projects being implemented in the North East, instead of the existing practice of sharing 90 per...
Shivangi Pathak becomes the youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest
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Shivangi Pathak, a 16-year-old teenager from Haryana’s Hisar district has become the youngest Indian to summit Mount Everest. Along with her team of climbers, she...
Second Indo-Bhutan Friendship Car Rally flagged off
Arunachal Pradesh Governor BD Mishra flagged off the second Indo-Bhutan Friendship Car Rally 2017 which had 17 participants. The governor addresses the participants and pronounced his hopes...
Uttarakhand’s Only Elephant Reserve Now Denotified To Make Room For Dehradun Airport Expansion
In yet another case of the environment losing out in the fight between development and conservation, Uttarakhand is set to lose its only elephant reserve.
The Uttarakhand wildlife...
Construction of Zojila tunnel starts. To reduce travel time from 3 hrs to 15...
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday launched the first blasting for construction related work at the 14.15 km Zojila tunnel, one of the longest in Asia, that...
92 new flight routes in Northeast under Udaan-2: Jayant Sinha
The regional connectivity scheme proposed by the government, Udaan, has been created to provide connectivity to remote areas and improve access in under-served regions.
In a bid to...
New destinations for adventure sports being opened across Uttarakhand
The state tourism department is going to provide training to local youth in all 13 districts of the state in adventure activities such as rafting, paragliding etc to...
Entire village in Lahaul tests Covid positive
MANALI: All residents of Thorang village of Lahaul valley in Himachal Pradesh, barring 52-year-old Bhushan Thakur, have tested positive for Covid-19. The Lahaul-Spiti valley has become the worst-affected district in the...
Storytelling with a Difference: Meet our Himasset Munmun Dhalaria
A great storyteller bridges the gap between “you” and “me” to make their audience feel one with them. They understand that story-telling is a conversation, a dialogue...
Interlocutor’s letter ended Nagaland poll impasse
A letter written by the Centre’s interlocutor R.N. Ravi to the Naga groups, including the NSCN (Isak-Muivah), on February 3, helped to end the impasse over the...
“Tarballs” Detected in Himalayan Atmosphere
Some people refer to the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau as the “third pole” because the region has the largest reserve of glacial snow and ice outside of the north...
Investment in Human Capital-Nepal
The International Labor Organisation has cited low investment in Human Capital to be a major obstacle to the country to leap forward. It is also noticed that...
Himachal Regiment
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur met Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday and sought a “Himachal Regiment” in the Army. Mr. Thakur said the creation of...
Covid scare hits Kullu-Manali hoteliers hard
The Covid scare has ruined the business of hoteliers in Kullu-Manali even on Diwali holidays. Room enquiries for hotel occupancy have witnesses a sharp dip.
The hoteliers have...
Stephen Atler wins Banff’s Mountain Environment and Natural History Award for his work, Wild...
Author and Fulbright scholar Stephen Alter has been announced the 2020 recipient of the notable Mountain Environment and Natural History prize, awarded each year as part of the Banff Mountain...
COVID-19: Every third student in Indian Himalayan region couldn’t access online classes
Educational learning has been an unusual victim of the ongoing novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Continuity of learning has been impacted adversely — so has the students’...
‘Kokborok’- The Tribal Language Usage made mandatory by the Tripura Government
Tripura government has made Kokborok language mandatory to be displayed on signboards, nameplates and other notice boards in the government buildings with also issuing notifications, making it...
Earthquakes strikes Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake jolted in Nyingchi city and surrounding areas of Tibet with no casualties reported but the earthquake has caused damage to properties, roads of the...
Meet Mountaineer Krushnaa Patil And Be Inspired By Her Summits
While the field of mountaineering in India has undergone a sea change with a new generation of young mountaineers scaling summits zealously, back in 2009, there were...
Why Do Airplanes Avoid Flying Over The Himalayas?
You might have thought there were no corners of the earth modern aircraft didn’t fly over. But there are still a few last frontiers – the Arctic,...
‘I was in awe of Hazarika’
Joor Baruah, the documentary filmmaker grew up in the Brahmaputra plains. His inquisitiveness always made him wonder regarding the life and culture of the unseen and the...
Entrepreneurs in the Himalayas
Drukpa Thuksey Rinpoche of Ladakh talks about how the Naropa Fellowship aims to create agents of change for a robust socio-economic environment in the Himalayan region.
The 1,000-year-old...
Snowfall in higher reaches of Valley
The famous ski resort of Gulmarg and other higher reaches of Kashmir received snowfall for the second day on Tuesday. The plains were lashed by rains, the...
90% of Himalayas face year-long drought at 3 degrees global warming: study
A collection of eight studies — all focusing on India, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Ghana — shows that the risks of drought, flooding, declines in crop...
Why Rohtang Tunnel Can Turn From Boon to Bane for Lahaul’s People and Ecology
On October 3, the Rohtang tunnel was inaugurated by the Prime Minister in Manali. There was the usual euphoria on the part of both the Central and...
Water Tourism
Mar 4, 2018-Tourist arrivals in hotels and resorts on the banks of Sunkoshi and Bhotekoshi rivers have increased due to the beginning of the summer season. The...
A startup is using tourism and solar energy to light up remote areas in...
In 2013, an Indian engineer started a sustainable development enterprise called Global Himalayan Expedition. Since then, it has installed solar power in 131 villages of three regions...
Why the mountains matter
Mountains are the most magnificent and majestic geographical features of the world. Be it the Andes in South America, the Alps in Europe or the mighty Himalayas...
With rampant habitat fragmentation, how the Hindu Kush Himalayas could be the next pandemic...
The world is in an 'era of pandemics.' Unless the destruction of the natural world is halted, diseases will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, kill more...
Notice to Centre, Uttarakhand Over ‘Virus’ in National Park
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday sent a notice to the Central and Uttarakhand governments, seeking details of an unknown virus or disease reportedly spreading across...
2 wonderful new books take armchair travelers to the Himalayas
“Till the summer of 1904 if one had been asked what was the most mysterious spot on the earth’s surface the reply would have been Lhasa.” So...
Air Scheme for Low Cost Fliers
In a big boost to tourism, the Centre on Friday included Uttarakhand in its regional air connectivity scheme making air travel to the region affordable for the...
Mountains that sustain millions
The word Himalaya comes from two Sanskrit words: Him (snow) and Aalay (abode). The beauty of the Himalaya, which are one of the youngest chains of mountains in the world harbouring...
You Can Help Save Thano: Here’s How
While the first social movements occurred through protests and civil disobedience, the rise of the internet ushered in numerous online social movements. Since then, online social movements...
Could the Himalayas harbour the next pandemic?
The world is in an “era of pandemics”. Unless the destruction of the natural world is halted, diseases will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, kill more...
India, China hold 1st border consultation mechanism meet after Doklam standoff
On Friday, India and China held their first meeting regarding the border consultation and coordination mechanism in Beijing after the Doklam standoff. They also reviewed the situation...
Mountain biking expedition concludes in Uttarkashi
UTTARKASHI: The first-of-its-kind Mountain Terrain Biking (MTB) expedition to the Nelong Valley region of Indo-China border in Uttarkashi district concluded on Friday. The week-long expedition was organised...
India-Bhutan collaborate on phase three trials of COVID-19 vaccine
India is collaborating with Bhutan for conducting Phase-3 trials of COVID vaccine candidate even as New Delhi has sent seven consignments of essential medicines to the country...
Himalayas getting Warmer- Global Warming Strikes
Total precipitation (rainfall + snowfall) was found to increase whereas snowfall was found to decrease with concurrent significant increase in rainfall at all zones of NWH,” the...
India, China have to ‘live side by side’: Dalai Lama
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai lama siad on Sunday, that India and China have to live "side by side" whether they like it or not. He also...
The Code of Ethics issued to systematize Sauraha’s tourism
Chitwan's Tourism entrepreneurs have issued a 16-point business code of conduct to systematize tourism sector of Sauraha. The aim is to build eco-friendly tourism which concentrates on the...
Jet plans regional gateway in Guwahati
Jet Airways said it planned to expand its operations in the northeast and make Guwahati its regional gateway.
Jet Airways had increased the number of weekly flights between...
Kedarnath, Yamunotri Temples in Garhwal Himalayas Close for Winters Amid Heavy Snowfall
The portals of Kedarnath and Yamunotri temples in the Garhwal Himalayas were closed for winters on Bhai Dooj on Monday amid heavy snowfall. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra...
It’s a pig, it’s a goat, it’s a serow: Explaining an unusual sighting in...
A Himalayan serow has been sighted for the first time in the Himalayan cold desert region. Why is the sighting significant?
First, what kind of an animal is...