The state bird of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the Himalayan Monal is a beautiful pheasant with a remarkable, multicolored plumage. Its bright blue, green, and purple feathers, along with a ...

New Delhi: It's been 3 months and 3,000 kilometres on the saddle of the Himalayan 450. Regular office commutes and rare off-road sessions are my long-termer motorcycle's current diet. Straight off ...

DEHRADUN: In the Himalayas, avalanches and mishaps are unforgiving. Survival in such conditions is rare. The numbers from recent years tell a grim story. In recent years, avalanches have trapped ...

It is also a huge challenge in itself simply to cross the lofty and fragile Himalayan range, ecology issues aside. The mountain range has average elevations beyond 4000 metres, with nine of the ...

A quiet night in the Himalayas turned into something magical. High above Tibet, rare red flashes lit up the sky. These were not ordinary lightning bolts but glowing red sprites. They appeared in ...

Teasing out the timing of over 90 red sprites and tying over 60 of them to specific strokes of parent lightning, the research reveals that one of South Asia’s largest shows of sprite fireworks arose ...

123RF When a list of 43 countries slated for possible travel bans to the US was leaked over the weekend, citizens of one tiny Himalayan nation were left baffled as to why their kingdom was in the ...

Researchers from IISER Pune, University of Kashmir, and IIT Bombay and Roorkee, among others, studied 5,807 rock glaciers in ...

Mana is a remote border area at the foot of the Himalayas Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami wrote on X that rescue work was being carried out by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP ...