New Delhi: Literature, the soul of cultural exchange, is giving conventional diplomacy a run for its space in South Asia with the mushrooming literary festivals that are provoking, discussing and building new bridges across cultures. Five major literature festivals - the Jaipur Literature Festival, Mountain Echoes in Bhutan, the Kathmandu Literary Yatra, the Galle Literary Festival in Sri lanka and the Karachi Literature Festival - which have been showcasing literature...
10:45 AM, May 28, 2012
Los Angeles: Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, who zeroed in on Indian child actor Suraj Sharma as the lead for his forthcoming movie 'Life of Pi', says the teenager has given an emotional performance and hopes the movie remains talked about for a long time to come. "I met him (Suraj), I tested him, and he held his breath for 20 seconds. So I got him a swimming coach, work-out coach...
06:48 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Buenos Aires: Thirty-seven-year old Malli Mastan Babu is the only Indian to have scaled the tallest peaks of the Andes in South America. He also holds a Guinness record for having climbed the seven summits of the world in just 172 days. Babu, who comes from a farming family in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, has been credited with scaling the Aconcagua in the Argentine side three times. At 6,962 metres,...
11:03 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Kabul: Rescuers shoveled through deep snow on Tuesday searching for victims of an avalanche that destroyed a village of 200 people in northeastern Afghanistan, authorities said. Thirty-seven people have been confirmed dead, but authorities fear the death toll will rise. "It is a mountainous area with so much snow," said Shams Ul Rahman, the deputy governor of Badakhshan province where the avalanche occurred on Sunday night. "My concern is that...
07:56 AM, Mar 07, 2012
New York: Apple is releasing a developer preview of an update for the Mac operating system, dubbed "Mountain Lion," that will copy more features and apps from the iPhone and iPad to the Mac. Apple says the new software will be on sale this summer, a year after it released the latest update, "Lion." Mountain Lion will include Game Center, an iPhone app which stores high game scores and helps...
07:51 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Srinagar: A moderate intensity earthquake rocked the Kashmir Valley on Saturday morning, disaster management officials said. No damage to life or property has been reported so far. "The magnitude of the earthquake was 4.7 on the Richter Scale. It occured at 5.02 AM on Saturday morning," Aamir Ali, in-charge of the provincial disaster management cell, told IANS. "The epicentre of the quake was in the Hindukush mountain range of Afghanistan....
01:19 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Agra: Director Suman Ganguli is all set to shoot Gracy Singh-starrer 'Blue Mountain', which is reportedly inspired by singer Vani Jayaram who once alleged that none other than Lata Mangeshkar had nipped her Bollywood career in the bud. When asked about the subject of the film, the director said: "I do not wish to raise unnecessary controversy but if viewers see some reflections of some popular singer's life in the...
06:35 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: A mild earthquake hit the northern part of India on Monday evening. The tremors were felt in Jammu and Kashmir, parts of Rajasthan and Delhi. India Meteorological Department Director (Department of Seismology) RS Dattatreya said that the tremor was recorded as 6.0 on the Richter Scale. The epicentre of the quake was along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the Hindu Kush mountain range. Dattatreya said that the quake took...
06:01 PM, Nov 07, 2011
On this show we focus on the young Indians who have pushed their limits to achieve their goals. ...
12:11 AM, Oct 15, 2011
New Delhi: Most 10-year-olds like football and video games. But, for mountaineer Arjun Vajpai, it was the mountains calling when he was 10. A family trek at the Sahyadri hills set off his mountain lust and later pushed him to scale some of the world's highest peaks including Mt Everest, Mt Lhotse and Mt Manaslu. The young Delhi achiever has gone where no 18-year-old has dared to step in. "When...
09:02 AM, Oct 14, 2011
Arjun Vajpai, the youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest in 2010, has now set another record by becoming the youngest mountaineer from Asia to scale Mt Manafai in Nepal. ...
09:28 AM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: Army is planning to set up a mountain strike corps and is talking to various states including in the northeast against the backdrop of a Chinese build up of military infrastructure on its side of boundary. "We are in talks with the governments of states including Assam, West Bengal and Bihar for setting up the Mountain Corps headquarters, which would require at least 4,000 to 5,000 acres of...
05:15 PM, Aug 22, 2011
London: Fans of John Denver have suffered a setback after a campaign to name a peak in the Colorado Rockies after the singer has been blocked by the US officials. The movement gained momentum in the recent weeks when more than 2,000 people signed a petition to rename Mount Sopris in honour of Denver, who wrote his hit 1972 track 'Rocky Mountain High' while camping nearby, reported Contactmusic. But the...
12:20 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Wellington: New Zealand will name a part of its highest mountain after one of its most famous citizens, Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mount Everest, the government said on Wednesday. The South Ridge of Mt. Cook, which is also known by its Maori name Aoraki, will be renamed Hillary Ridge, Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson said. "Sir Edmund made an enormous contribution to our country and abroad...
11:48 AM, Aug 10, 2011
The 32 year old mother of two became the first woman in the world to scale the mighty everest twice in one season. ...
08:32 AM, Jun 25, 2011
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