NASA image released on Tuesday evening shows red dots indicating fires, including those due to stubble burning, in areas surrounding Delhi and rest of North India.
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NASA image shows red dots indicating stubble burning in areas surrounding Delhi.
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NASA image shows large-scale stubble burning in areas surrounding Delhi. Many areas in the Delhi-National Capital Region recorded air quality in the "very poor" category on Wednesd...
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A monkey tries to climb onto a railway platform near a running train on a foggy morning at Chola, in Uttar Pradesh. Intense cold wave swept across large parts of north India as fog...
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Dense fog in North India may have affected a couple of trains and flights but hasn't deterred these crows who seem determined to stick to their time-table.
AP Photo/Channi Anand
Power crisis again, Northern, Eastern grids fail. The Northern and Eastern Grids tripped, leading to power failure in several states of the country affecting hundreds of millions o...
Miss North India 2012 winner Nancy Gupta (C) from Shimla posing for a photo with runners-up at a function in New Delhi.
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A room of her own Irom Sharmila in her special cell in Imphal’s Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital, a virtual ‘home’
Sandipan Chatterjee
And, finally, the Monsoon hit north India. A woman crosses a street with a child in the rain in Jammu, India
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Tso Rul basks in a strobe of setting sun. One of the smaller lakes, it rarely finds mention
on the tourist itinerary because it lies just one pass away from its much-celebrated c...
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Like the landscape itself, the massive chorten near a hidden Tibetan refugee village on the far bank of Tso Kar is a work in progress. With most time spent indoors, residents, like...
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Treading as lightly as their half-tonne bodies will allow, foraging yaks thread their way across the frozen Thaksal Tokpo near Tangse, the last settlement on the way to Pangong Tso...
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Clouds stream past granite hills cupping Nubra’s Lohan Tso, among the least known, yet most holy, lakes in Ladakh. Buddhists believe the pure of heart can see the Potala Palace r...
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Sunset, sky and clouds lend a bend on the Hanle Chu near Rongo the look of a palette. The frozen river offers the Changpa a walking trail, which is easier to negotiate than the loo...
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Petrified shrubs punctuating a valley of wind-smoothed snow beyond Tsaga-la, some 60km from Chushul, offer the only source of firewood for residents of Tsaga and Tara. Though a met...
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Like a dispassionate eye, a pool of water more than a hundred metres from Pangong’s bank fixes its gaze on the cloudless sky. Breaking, bonding, freezing, thawing, Pangong’s su...
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Dwarfed by distance and scale, Rashid, my trekking companion, Phunsok, a Man-Merak resident, and I pick our way across the Pangong Tso. The ice here comes in three varieties: hard ...
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The battle-line between water and ice is traced by a cursive ridge on Kyun Tso. The lake is at a height of 15,800ft, some 70km from Hanle village. Its waters, an arsenical green in...
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People sit around a fire in the cold morning, at the railway station in Gaya. Dozens of people have died in a cold wave sweeping through northern India.
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A man drinks tea on a cold and foggy morning on the outskirts of Jammu. More than 30 people have died in cold weather-related incidents in northern India, including 10 people kille...
No private university, no matter how excellent, can fulfil the staggeringly vast and demanding responsibilities that only a public university can address.
An Indian Air Force team had rescued, with the help of a chopper, 21 people stranded due to flash floods at Dobi in Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh in the last 48 hours.
With the Gandhis losing pocket-borough Amethi for the first time since 1977 and the SP-BSP-RLD belying the expectations they raised, the BJP had a bull run up North