Mumbai, Feb 15: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said his ministry was aware of the possible risk of avalanche at Siachen glacier but not of the exact spot where the snow slide struck ...

On 7 April 21m (70ft) of snow engulfed a military camp in Gayari near the Siachen Glacier. The announcement that those buried are "martyrs" comes days after the first body from the avalanche was ...

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Rescue workers used bulldozers yesterday to dig through huge banks of snow following a massive avalanche, which engulfed a military complex and buried at least 135 people close to the Indian border.

BBC Urdu's Abid Hussain visits Pakistan's military bases in the disputed Siachen Glacier area of north-western Kashmir The gap from where the avalanche destroyed Gayari headquarters in 2012 ...

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha condoled the death of Subhankar Bhowmik, an Army personnel hailing from the state's Gomati district, in an avalanche in Kashmir's Siachen. CM Saha, on November 19 ...

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is visiting the Siachen glacier on Monday. Defence sources said Rajnath Singh arrived at the Thoise airbase in Ladakh early Monday morning from where he will fly to ...

Rajnath Singh also interacted with the soldiers deployed in Siachen. The Siachen glacier, which is at a height of around 20,000 feet in the Karakoram range, is known as the highest militarised ...

As the Indian Army marks the 40th year of its presence on the strategically-significant Siachen glacier, the officials said there have been extensive improvements in the operational capabilities ...