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
Patna: The Supreme Court's order has come as a huge relief for the parents of the conjoined twins, who are now being taken care by Patna's leading hospital. Following the Supreme Court's order that the Bihar government should take the full responsibility of the conjoined twins' medical treatment, the hospital has been looking after the sisters. The apex court has also asked the state government to pay Rs 5,000 per...
01:29 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Fardeen Khan is on cloud nine as his wife Natasha is pregnant. He says they are expecting twins. "I am delighted to announce that my wife is a very healthy 13 weeks pregnant and we are expecting twins," the 38-year-old posted on Twitter Friday. The actor tied the knot with Natasha, daughter of yesteryear actress Mumtaz and Britain businessman Mayur Madhvani, in 2005. "Thank you all. Lots of...
04:05 PM, Oct 26, 2012
On this episode we bring you the stories of a story of the separated conjoined twins and more. ...
06:47 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Betul: Eleven-month-old conjoined twins in Madhya Pradesh, Aradhna and Stuti, have got a new lease of life. They have successfully been separated by a team of 23 doctors and 11 nurses from Australia and India. June 20 will be a red-letter day in the lives of Aradhna and Stuti. Forced to stay apart from their parents for 11 months, the conjoined twins were finally separated after a 12-hour mammoth operation...
09:02 AM, Jun 29, 2012
Betul: Conjoined twins Stuti and Aradhna were successfully separated after a day-long complex surgery conducted by a team of 34 medical experts, including 23 doctors, drawn from India and abroad. The complicated surgical procedure was carried out at Missionary Hospital in Padhar. The 1-year-old sisters, who were joined at heart and liver, were wheeled into the operation theatre at around 8 am on Wednesday. The actual surgery began at 9...
03:14 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: Hachette UK announced today that it has acquired worldwide rights in the wholly-owned Enid Blyton estate, excluding Noddy, from Chorion for the Hodder Children's imprint of its Hachette Children's Books business. Enid Blyton has an extensive publishing portfolio with 800 titles translated into 40 languages. Till date over 500 million copies of Enid Blyton books have been sold, outselling any other children's author. Blyton's sales continue to flourish...
12:54 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: Actor Kunal Khemu says he cancelled his Chandigarh trip to promote his forthcoming film 'Blood Money' after he fell ill. "Was looking forward to meeting everyone in Chandigarh today unfortunately have fallen sick. Feel really bad," tweeted the 25-year-old. Directed by Vishal Mahadkar and produced by Mahesh Bhatt, 'Blood Money' releases on March 30. The film talks about a small-town boy who enters the diamond export business and is...
02:26 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Kolkata: A woman died in Kolkata soon after giving birth to twins on a pavement after she was allegedly denied admission by, not one, but two government-run hospitals. The incident occurred on Thursday night. The first infant was born outside the Chittaranjan Sevasadan nursing home in Haazra. The 40-year-old victim then made her way to Sambhunath Pandit Hospital where she was allegedly turned away again. It was on the way...
08:10 AM, Jan 14, 2012
London: The reason for their split is still unknown, but Jennifer Lopez's commitment to Scientology was reportedly a bone of contention between the Hollywood actress and her husband, Marc Anthony. Lopez, 42 - who called off her seven-year marriage to Anthony last month - was hoping to send the couple's three-year-old twins Max and Emme to a specialist Scientology school. But Anthony, also 42, wasn't so keen on the idea,...
11:59 AM, Aug 15, 2011
Betul: A poor couple here has 'donated' conjoined girl twins to a local missionary hospital where they were born a few days back, officials said.The incident took place at the Padhar hospital. The twins, joined from the chest to stomach were donated as there was no way in which they could be cured, they said. Both girls are in 'normal' condition and there is no threat to their survival. The...
03:26 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Bangalore: Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are pushing ahead with another suit against Facebook, a day after they decided not to appeal a US Supreme Court ruling upholding their $65 million settlement with Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. In a status report filed on Thursday with the US District Court of Massachusetts, the twins and their business partner, Divya Narendra, said they would move the court for...
09:38 AM, Jun 24, 2011
New York: The twin brothers who accused Facebook Inc and founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for the social networking website lost their bid to have a US court void a multi-million dollar settlement of their claims. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss failed to convince the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reconsider its April 11 ruling upholding the $65 million cash-and-stock settlement they reached with...
07:20 AM, May 17, 2011
Sichuan (China): Conjoined twin baby girls with a single body and two heads have been born in southwestern China. Doctors say it's almost impossible to separate them. The conjoined twins were born in Sichuan, southwestern China. Doctors are not even sure how to keep them alive. "It is hard to say (how will they survive in the future). But we will try the best to keep them alive at the...
02:10 PM, May 10, 2011
New York: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have revealed the names they've picked out for their newborn boy and girl: Moroccan and Monroe. The couple chose to name their son Moroccan Scott Cannon after the Moroccan-inspired decor of the top tier of Carey's New York City apartment. The so-called Moroccan Room is also where Cannon proposed. They picked the middle name Scott since it's both Cannon's middle name as well...
02:12 PM, May 05, 2011
San Francisco: A US federal appeals court ruled Monday that former Harvard University schoolmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can't undo their settlement over creation of the social networking site. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss were savvy enough to understand what they were agreeing to when they signed the agreement in 2008. The deal called for a $20 million cash payment...
02:08 PM, Apr 12, 2011
San Francisco: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss found a sceptical audience on Tuesday as they tried to persuade a US appeals court to release them from a $65 million settlement over the founding of online social network Facebook. The saga of the Winklevoss twins and Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg became silver screen lore with the release of the film The Social Network last year. It has long been a legal...
11:48 AM, Jan 12, 2011
One child of a twin pair was born in late hours of Dec 31, 2010, while the other was born at midnight, when 2011 started. ...
11:06 AM, Jan 05, 2011
Rockford: A northern Illinois couple welcomed their new daughter to the world in the last minute of 2010 - and a twin son in the first minute of 2011. Ashley Fansler gave birth to Madisen Carin Lewis at 11:59 pm on New Year's Eve in Machesney Park, 85 miles northwest of Chicago. Aiden Everette Lewis was born a minute later, at 12 a.m. on New Year's Day. The Rockford Register...
10:38 AM, Jan 05, 2011
