Kathmandu: Two Indian girls have scripted history by becoming the first twins ever to climb Mount Everest together. 21-year-old Tashi and Nancy Malik from Dehra Dun achieved this feat by successfully reaching the world's highest mountain peak at 8,848 meters, an official at Nepal's Ministry of Tourism and Culture said.
The duo were among other record-makers including the first women from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan who climbed the Everest on Sunday. During a so-called "fair weather" window on Sunday, 146 people reached the summit of the world's highest peak with 94 more completing the journey on Monday.
This brings to 348 the total number of climbers who have ascended the mountain since May 10, said Tilak Pandey of the Mountain Division at the Ministry. Last year, more than 250 climbers reached the summit in a 48-hour stretch of good weather despite warnings of potentially deadly bottlenecks in the "death zone" above 8,000 metres.
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08:11 PM, May 20, 2013
Meerut: A girl on Sunday thrashed a youth in public and handed him over to the police, lodging a complaint against him for establishing sexual relations with her on false promise of marriage, police said in Meerut. The 21-year-old girl stated in her complaint that she was forced to take abortion pill as she got pregnant after the accused established sexual relations with her, promising to marry her, police said....
02:52 AM, May 20, 2013
Jammu: Family of Chamel Singh, an Indian prisoner who died in a Pakistani jail three months ago, on Saturday blamed the Centre for the attack on Sarabjit Singh, saying had the government taken a tough stand at that time such an incident would not have recurred. "We want the Indian government to see the conspiracy in attacks on Indian prisoners - we should safeguard the lives of Indian prisoners in...
10:53 PM, Apr 27, 2013
They might seem like any other girl band but when it's showtime the Tetseo Sisters bring folk from the hills of Nagaland all the way to the stage. The siblings have been performing in India and overseas for more than a decade now. They are not just folk singers but are also the cultural ambassadors of Nagaland. .. ...
12:30 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Kolkata: The bereaved elder sister of a Students Federation of India (SFI) activist, whose death in police custody led to noisy protests, on Wednesday called for a ban on politics at educational institutions and urged students not to join politics. She alleged that party leaders use innocent students for their political interests. Sudipto Gupta, a post-graduate student of Rabindra Bharati University and an activist of CPI-M's student wing SFI, died...
01:55 AM, Apr 04, 2013
A 24-year-old woman, along with her husband, was arrested from suburban Andheri for allegedly trying to sell her minor sister for prostitution, police said on Wednesday. The accused, identified as Samina Darzi, and her husband Mohammed, walked into the trap set up by the members of a local NGO and were held on Tuesday while accepting an advance of Rs 50,000 towards the "deal' to sell Samina's 12-year-old sister for...
11:28 PM, Mar 27, 2013
The ads caused an uproar online and came just after India passed a new law on violence against women. ...
06:51 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of the rape of three minor sisters, whose bodies were found in a well in their village in Bhandara district. ...
02:05 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The mother of three minor girls, who were raped and murdered in Maharashtra's Bhandara district in February, has threatened to return the compensation amount of Rs 10 lakh she received from the government and hit the street in protest if police failed to arrest the culprits in the next two days. ...
05:56 PM, Mar 02, 2013
More than 15 days since the tragic death of three minor sisters in the Bhandara rape and murder case, no arrests have been made yet. Members of the National Commission for Women (NCW) were at Bhandara on Thursday and met the victims' mother. ...
11:01 AM, Mar 01, 2013
What shocked the country a fortnight ago has now turned into a baffling jigsaw puzzle. Culprits behind the horrendous rape and murder of three school going sisters in the Bhandara district of Maharashtra are still at large, as a clueless police is struggling to make headway in the investigation. ...
08:50 AM, Mar 01, 2013
A week after the gruesome rape and murders of three sisters in Bhandara district in Maharashtra, no arrests have been made yet. ...
11:50 PM, Feb 21, 2013
The police have termed the rape and murder case of three minor sisters in Bhandara in Maharashtra as very unfortunate. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Bhandara Superintendent of Police Arti Singh said that though the case is very complicated, the police have managed to get some leads. ...
06:25 PM, Feb 21, 2013
A week after the gruesome rape and murders of three sisters in Bhandara district in Maharashtra, no arrests have been made yet. The mother of the three girls wants the culprits to be hanged in public. "I think the men who did this should be found at the earliest and hanged in public," she said speaking to CNN-IBN. ...
09:59 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Months after the horrific Delhi gangrape case, there was another shocker, this time from Maharashtra where three minor sisters were raped and murdered in Bhandara district. Mother of the victims has accused the police of a shoddy probe while enraged locals blocked the National Highway number 6 for several hours. ...
09:37 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Who killed composer duo Jatin-Lalit's sister? Music composer Lalit Pandit joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
03:29 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Composer Lalit says he never blamed his nephew for his sister Sandhya Singh's murder. ...
04:33 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Two teenaged sisters, reportedly abandoned by their parents, were allegedly raped over a six-month period by two men at their house where they were working as maids, police said on Monday. ...
03:57 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Sharmila was injured during her 'padyatra' in Ranga Reddy district three days ago while getting off a bus. ...
09:31 AM, Dec 19, 2012
Kottayam: Flaying the CBI court order dismissing a batch of petitions seeking further investigation into the Sister Abhaya case, Jomon Puthenpurackal, the convener of the Abhaya Case Action Council, has said that the court directive will create a negative image of courts among the public. He said, though the roles of the respondents, including former Kottayam Sub-Divisional Magistrate K G Kishore, former Crime Branch Kottayam Superintendent K T Michael, former...
01:24 PM, Sep 21, 2012
