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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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 ...

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 ...