Modi-Trump Meet | India's IMEEC | Mega Brahmos Push | Ex-Tibetan PM Exclusive | B'desh Women Unsafe
Big 'MAGA' and 'MIGA' confluence in Washington. PM Modi and President Trump make big-ticket announcements spanning defence, trade, technology and energy. As India and France forge deeper ties, this ...
The photography expeditions of an Italian in the mighty Himalayas
Vittoria Sella scaled many tall peaks, including Kangchenjunga and K2, and took some of the greatest photographs ever of the ...
Xizang athletes make breakthroughs at Harbin Asian Winter Games
Courtesy of Harbin 2025 organizers. Cidanyuzhen, an athlete from Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, claimed another ...
The Chicken’s Neck: Decoding the blessing and bane of India's critical borderland
That it is a piece of critical geography is no secret. A sliver of land in north Bengal that lies at the confluence of multiple nations and ways of life, a borderland critical to India. The author dec ...
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Nepal bars solo expeditions to peaks above 8,000 metres
Nepal has banned solo expeditions to all the mountains above 8,000 metres inside the country, including the world's tallest Mount Everest or Mount Qomolangma, an official said on Wednesday. The ...
Spotlight on erosion: Prioritizing the watersheds of the lower Sutlej river basin
The Sutlej River Basin isn’t just a geographical feature; it’s the pulse of Punjab, threading through its heartland, shaping its fields, feeding its people, dictating the rhythm of life in ways both ...
China’s Medog Dam on the Brahmaputra: Renewable ambition or geopolitical gamble?
China unveiled plans for what could become the world’s largest hydropower project, the Medog Dam, on the lower Yarlung Zangbo River, known as the Brahmaputra in India. This announcement was far from ...
Fulbright scholar from Hutchinson shares love of Nepal
As the rickety bus barely rounded another corner, an audible gasp went through the passengers. A recent blizzard had taken out the road between the high Himalayan villages of Ranipauwa and ...
Religious research takes Hutchinson native to Nepal
A Hindu pilgrim stood anxiously next to a bus stand in Mustang, Nepal. “I’m going to burn my passport,” he told me. “I’m going to destroy all my documents and cross the border. I came ...
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Birds migrate longitudinally in response to the resultant Asian monsoons of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau uplift
The uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is one of the greatest geological events ... Albeit with the extensive influence of the plateau uplift on geology and geography, the resultant monsoon system, ...
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Knowledge nugget of the day: Earthquakes—Why is the Himalayan zone seismically active?
They encompass various topics such as disaster management and geography, including plate tectonics and seismic ... An earthquake measuring around 7 on the Richter scale hit Tibet on January 7, killing ...