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Siachen avalanche: Pak declares buried troops dead

Search teams recovered the bodies of three soldiers on May 27, nearly 50 days after the avalanche.

Dialogue with India will make progress: Pakistan

Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik hoped that dialogue between India and Pakistan on all issues...

India, Pak to hold Siachen talks on June 11-12

The last round of talks on Siachen was held in Delhi by the defence secretaries of India and Pakista...

Pakistan calls off Sir Creek talks with India

Pakistan reportedly seems keen on first having the defence secretaries level talks to assess the Ind...

Indian troops on higher ground in Siachen: Pak

Pakistan Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said that the military standoff between the two...

Greenland glaciers not melting as much as speculated

Greenland’s contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than th...

Himalayan glacial lakes’ size growing: Study

The number of glacial lakes in the Himalayas has reduced in recent years, but their total area has i...

World’s glaciers `losing 40% of their volume`

The Earth’s glaciers are seriously out of balance with the global climate and are already on their w...

Pak must not leave Siachen unilaterally: Imran

Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani April 18 had said that Pakistan favoured talks with India to...

Pak: `Siachen avalanche took less than 5 seconds`

Some life jackets, pieces of an igloo and medicines were found 600 meters from what rescuers believe...

`Nawaz didn’t suggest unilateral Siachen pullout’

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz said Nawaz Sharif had proposed that Pakistan should take the lead i...

No unilateral withdrawal from Siachen: Zardari

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said the country was ready for a dialogue with India on all ...

Pak dailies upbeat on Kayani`s India statement

General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani`s statement on cutting expenditure on defence has been lauded by Pakist...

Desolation of Pakistan avalanche site

The Pakistan Army has been searching for the 129 soldiers and 11 civilians buried at the remote Gaya...

Pak’s volte-face: `No change in Siachen policy`

Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday said his country favoured talks with I...

India welcomes Pak call for resolving Siachen row

Pakistan`s Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said all issues between India and Pakistan should be ...

`Pakistan, India have little to gain from Siachen`

A Pakistani daily said the dispute dates back to 1984 when India occupied high ground in the Saltoro...

Move under way to save ice breaker Glacier

The ice breaker that helped found McMurdo Station on Antarctica and performed a record-breaking 39 A...

Karakoram glaciers bucking global warming trend and ‘putting on mass’

Some glaciers on Asia’s Karakoram mountains, which is home to K2, are defying the global trend and g...

India asked to honour `agreement` on Siachen

Pakistani officials have claimed there was an agreement on Siachen following back channel contacts b...

Pak avalanche: Weather conditions hamper search

A massive avalanche slammed into a Pakistani Army camp in the Siachen sector near the Indian border.

China assists Pakistan in avalanche victim search

The Chinese armed forces have sent technical devices to the Pakistani Army after a request for help ...

Pak avalanche: Rescue work on for missing victims

Excavation in snow has gone down up to 35 metres as chances of survival were very slim on sixth day ...

Siachen issue to be settled by dialogue: US

The Siachen issue between India and Pakistan is to be primarily resolved through dialogue, a State D...

Hopes fading for buried Pak soldiers in Siachen

Rescue workers frantically searched for the 139 soldiers and civilians still trapped under snow.

US helps Pakistan search for 135 buried in snow

At least 240 Pakistani troops and civilians worked at the site of the disaster at the entrance to th...

Pak avalanche: Army Chief monitors rescue ops

Pak military officials said Sunday they have not recovered any bodies even after nearly 35 hours.

Pak Army hopes miracle will save avalanche victims

The avalanche engulfed a Pakistani Army battalion headquarters near a glacier early on Saturday.

Pak avalanche: Rescue ops on; no bodies found yet

Pak soldiers are digging for a second day to find 135 people buried by a massive avalanche that engu...

Snow from Pakistan avalanche 80 feet deep

More than 12 hours after the disaster at the entrance to the Siachen Glacier, no survivors had been ...

Pak avalanche `won’t undermine morale of soldiers`

A massive avalanche smashed into a key Pakistani Army camp in the Siachen sector along Indian border...

Pakistani troops dig for 135 missing in avalanche

Siachen is on the northern tip of the divided Kashmir region claimed by both India and Pakistan.

Huge chunk of Argentina`s glacier collapses

Part of the Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina`s Patagonia has broken off putting on a spectacular s...

Earth losing roughly 150 bn tons of ice annually

Greenland, Antarctica and global glaciers and ice caps lost roughly 8 times the volume of Lake Erie ...

Global warming not sole reason for glacier melting

A top climate official of the country says there could be other reasons as well for melting of snow ...

Longest Himalayan glacier melting rapidly

Glaciers in most of the region are showing signs of shrinking, thinning, and retreating, which is gi...

Rapid retreat of Chile glacier captured in images

Researchers in Chile released a series of time-lapse photos Wednesday showing the dramatic retreat o...

`Himalayan glaciers shrunk by fifth in 30 yrs`

The reports, launched by ICIMOD at Durban meet, South Africa, form the most comprehensive ever asses...

`China`s glaciers shrink by 10%`

China`s glaciers have shrunk by a magnitude of 10 per cent over the past 60 years as a result of ris...

NASA sees giant crack forming in Antarctic glacier

NASA scientists are watching a giant crack forming over a vulnerable Antarctic glacier and they thin...

Old snow stays in Rockies, adds to glaciers` size

Scientists who monitor the effects of global warming are watching glaciers shrink all over the world...

MiG wreckage still stuck in Himachal glacier

Rescuers have still not been able to retrieve the main wreckage of an Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-29 ...

`Glaciers in Tibet melting due to global warming`

Glaciers in southwest China`s Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a key source of major rivers in this country ...

IAF rescues American stranded near glacier in Leh

In what can be called a show of absolute heroism and gallantry, pilots of Leh based Helicopter Unit ...

Glacial meltdown causing uncertain future in Asia

Himalayan glaciers are melting, creating an uncertain future for two billion people across Asia, acc...

Arctic melting Glaciers to speed up global warming

Researchers from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), who returned from the Arctic assignm...

How did Antarctic succumb to ice age?

The rapid decline of glaciers along the peninsula has led to widespread speculation about how the re...

Strong currents accelerate Antarctic ice melt

The glacier is currently sliding into the sea at a clip of four km a year.

Glaciers account for half of rising sea levels

Alaska glaciers have been losing mass more rapidly since the mid-1990s.

Iceland`s Grimsvotn volcano erupting: Scientists

Smoke could be seen rising from the volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier.

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