Meet Gopi Thotakura, India's 1st space tourist

Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, is set to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin's NS-25 mission. IMAGE: Gopi Thotakura.......

Doctors revive Indian climber after 3-hr effort, condition critical, says kin

Indian climber Anurag Maloo, who was miraculously rescued after falling into a deep crevasse on Mount Annapurna in Nepal, was revived after three hours of painstaking effort by doctors at a......

Mountaineers Baljeet Kaur, Arjun Vajpai rescued from Mt Annapurna in Nepal

Two Indians, prominent woman climber Baljeet Kaur and the youngest Indian to climb Mt Everest in 2010, Arjun Vajpai, were rescued from Mt Annapurna in Nepal on Tuesday, officials from the......

No lockdown or additional Covid curbs in Mumbai, says civic chief

There is no immediate need for imposing lockdown or additional restrictions in Mumbai as the bed occupancy rate, oxygen requirement and number of Covid-19 deaths are low, municipal commissioner......

India Inc lends a hand amid shortage of oxygen

Over the weekend, many companies stepped in to ease the bottleneck in supply and transportation of oxygen, as demand ran high with the surge in cases. IMAGE: COVID-19 patient receives free oxygen......

Budget 2012: Duty restructure sought for steel, coke

Steel is closely linked with production activities in various sectors of the economy.Being the basic material for development of economic and social infrastructure, steel is used for producing......

The Road To Everest

The Chinese have declared that they want to build a road to Mt Everest, or more specifically from the foot of the mountain to a base camp some 17,000 feet up to the 29,035- feet-high peak. Not......

Adani to invest Rs 1,000 cr in Himachal

Business conglomerate Adani Group on Monday announced investment plans of up to Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) in Himachal Pradesh through its new venture in fruit and vegetable marketing.The Rs......

Now, Everest twins set to scale new heights... Mt Vinson in Antarctica!

'It took us three years to convince mom' 'At the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering boys would joke, 'Shatabdi and Rajdhani Express are here'. That gave us a lot of pride.' Rediff.com's Manu......

Emotions high as Olympic torch scales Everest

The Olympic flame reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, an emotional moment for China and the crowning of the Beijing Olympics torch relay that was dogged by anti-Chinese protests on its......