A team of polling personnel, equipped with essential materials, including an additional EVM, on Tuesday set out for one of the most remote polling stations under the Darjeeling Assembly constituency, located at an altitude of around 1,300 metres in the Himalayas.
Winter in Ladakh is never silent; it makes itself known. While one day it's the barren brown landscape stunning you with its rugged, picturesque beauty, the next day you will find yourself buried deep under thermal layers, as you witness the jagged ridgelines of the Himalayas wearing a crown of snow.
The Himalayas, long revered for their sublime beauty and spiritual significance, are under siege ~ not by avalanches or blizzards, but by human neglect. Mount Everest, the crown jewel of the range, tells a stark story: discarded tents, oxygen cylinders, plastic bottles, and even human remains lie scattered across its slopes.
According to information shared by the Dehradun Meteorological Department and a study report by the expert organisation Climate Trend, the duration and intensity of heatwaves have increased, while cold waves have declined during this period.
The Himalayas have always symbolised human endurance and the allure of the extreme. Yet, the recent blizzard that trapped hundreds of hikers on Mount Everest’s Tibetan slopes offers a stark reminder that nature’s majesty is inseparable from its unpredictability.
According to the NCRB report, 1,767 cases were filed in the state for illegal firearm possession in 2023 and 1,184 individuals were apprehended with illegal weapons.
The fury of the rains that lashed Darjeeling and neighbouring Nepal has once again exposed the fragility of the eastern Himalayas ~ a region of breathtaking beauty but growing ecological distress.
The Yamuna’s water level in Delhi continued to recede on Sunday, a week after heavy rainfall in the upper Himalayas forced massive releases from the Hathnikund barrage that inundated several low-lying areas of the city.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu said on Saturday that Uttarakhand and other Himalayan states will have more air traffic control systems (ATCS) to prevent helicopter mishaps in the region.
Atmospheric science experts pushed for tracking the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in ecologically sensitive Himalayan regions to improve the evaluation of global warming.
