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By Krishn Kaushik and Mei Mei Chu NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Reuters) -India and China have begun implementing an agreement to end a military standoff on their disputed Himalayan border, the two sides said on Friday, in the biggest thaw between the Asian giants since deadly clashes between their armies four years ago. Troops who were eyeball-to-eyeball at two points on the frontier in India’s Ladakh region in the western Himalayas had begun pulling back, an Indian […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Himalayan glaciers are melting twice as fast now as they were before the turn of the century, according to a new study that relied on recently declassified Cold War-era satellite imagery. The study, which appeared in Science Advances on Wednesday, is the latest indication that climate change is eating the Himalayan glaciers, threatening water supplies for hundreds of millions of people downstream across South Asia. “This is the clearest picture […]
NEW DELHI , India (AFP) — A landslide triggered by strong winds killed at least 10 construction workers in northern India on Monday, police said. Five more laborers were injured in the disaster in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, where they were building a road. “We have recovered 10 bodies and shifted injured to the hospital,” said Sadanand Date, chief of police for state capital Dehradun. Landslides are common in the Himalayan region, mostly in […]
