Himalayan plateau

Members of a rescue team work inside a tunnel after a part of a glacier broke away in Tapovan, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
South Asia

Rescuers drill Indian tunnel to look for trapped workers; families get impatient

About 171 people remain unaccounted for since Sunday’s disaster in Uttarakhand state, most of them workers at the Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric project and at the smaller Rishiganga dam, which...

Members of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) tend to people rescued after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam, in Chormi village in Tapovan in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, February 7, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
South Asia

Rescuers search for 125 missing in Himalayas, many believed trapped in tunnel after glacier burst

Military trucks are parked outside the storage facilities at a supply depot in Leh, in the Ladakh region, September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
South Asia

India's army chief expects China talks will solve Himalayan border crisis

A soldier patrols the India-China border in near sub-zero temperatures, in the thin air of 15,000 feet. Photo Bloomberg.
Panorama

India, China and a 'No Man's Land'