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4.3KRockfall at 17,000 ft: How Kashmir’s ace mountaineer averted a high-altitude tragedy at Kalahoi
After a group of trekkers from Delhi sent an SOS from Kolahoi glacier recently, it was this legendary mountaineer from Kashmir who...
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Rockfall incident at Kolahoi galcier, 2 mountaineers injured
Srinagar: Two mountaineers were injured on Monday in a rockfall incident at Kolahoi glacier in Pahalgam area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district....
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8 killed, many injured as Madhya Pradesh witnesses heavy rains, ‘efforts on to rescue others’
Srinagar: As rains continue inundating Madhya Pradesh, India, a 35-year-old woman was killed and three others were injured when a house collapsed...
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Massive explosion in Beirut kills at least 100, leaves more than 2,00,000 homeless
A massive explosion occurred in Beirut’s port area on Tuesday where authorities had stored tonnes of highly explosive material in warehouses, the...
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Dead-body of second boy fished out three days after drowning in Sindh river
Srinagar: Body of a boy who drowned along with his friend while bathing in river Sindh in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district was...
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High alert as Locusts swarms invade Delhi, Gurugram, pilots told to be cautious
Swarms of locusts that have crossed over to India from neighbouring Pakistan have been causing havoc in Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, and Madhya...
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Indian Army deploys additional troops on LAC, Navy, Air Force on alert
Frontline bases of the Indian army and the air force along the nearly 3,500 km de-facto border with China were put on...
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Locusts wreak havoc in Pakistan, cotton and vegetable crop hit as invasion covers more than country’s total-crop-area
Swarms of locusts spreading across Pakistan are emerging as a bigger threat to the country’s economy than the coronavirus pandemic, with the...
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Earthquake with epicentre near Srinagar strikes Jammu and Kashmir, no damage reported
Srinagar: An earthquake of 3.9 magnitude on the Richter Scale struck Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday morning at around 8:16 am, triggering...
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Cyclone Nisarga makes landfall 100 km from Mumbai, nearly 1 lakh people evacuated
Cyclone Nisarga began the landfall process around noon on Wednesday near the coastal town of Alibag, around 100 kilometres south of Mumbai,...
