Forced to make emergency landing, CEC spends night at sub-zero temp

Forced to make an emergency landing in a remote village near Munsiyari due to bad weather on Wednesday, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar spent the night in an uninhabited house in......

SEE: Bridge near India-China border in U'khand collapses

A bailey bridge in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, nearly 50 km from the Sino-India border, collapsed when a truck carrying a JCB machine was crossing it, an official said on Tuesday. The......

Climbers recover 7 bodies near Nanda Devi peak

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police on Sunday recovered seven bodies believed to be that of foreign mountaineers who had gone missing on way to the Nanda Devi East peak in Uttarakhand last month, an......

The mountaineer changing lives in a hill village

Munsyari in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand is the last small town before the Nepal-Tibet border. It is here that Malika Virdi, a well-known mountaineer, social worker and sarpanch till......