Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

A team of eight Sherpa climbers left Namche Bazaar yesterday for Everest Base Camp. Soon, they will begin creating a path ...

As graceful and ephemeral as it appears, Odette-Odile is a dancer’s Mount Everest, requiring stellar technique, prodigious training, uncommon stamina, emotional resilience — and even carbo ...

General Manager (Zonal Head), Bhopal Zone, to mark International Women’s Day. The event was graced by Megha Parmar, the first woman mountaineer from Madhya Pradesh to conquer Mount Everest, as ...

At least 500,000 people live in the zone most at risk should the volcano erupt. Italy’s national institute for geophysics and volcanology has called for a governmental plan to ensure that ...

As the wildcat strike of New York state prison guards entered its fourth week, the death toll among prisoners has been mounting. Despite a tentative agreement having been proposed last week ...

AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...

Some high schools that once took a “college for all” approach are now guiding teenagers toward more choices. Do you think that is a good idea? By Shannon Doyne Look closely at this image ...

A look at the curved oval iconic representation of Shiva Lingam placed on a globular base which is found in the Sanctum Sanctorum Garbhagraha of all Shiva temples has given rise to diverse explanation ...

Rakshit Chaurasia, the accused in the Vadodara crash that left a woman dead and seven others injured, may have insisted that he would drive the car and convinced his friend Pranshu to shift to the ...

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