Harpreet Chandi completed her solo journey to the South Pole on the 40th day after traveling 700 miles. Captain Harpreet Chandi started her preparations in French Alps where she underwent the crevasse training. She also trekked across Langjökull Glacier in Iceland and spent 27 days on the Icecap in Greenland.
Category: Travel
**India-based Tamara Leisure Experiences strengthens its German portfolio with 4th hotel acquisition
Tamara Leisure Experiences headquartered in Bengaluru, India has added to its German portfolio of hospitality outlets with the recent acquisition of Moxy Bremen at Uberseestadt in Bremen.
This newly acquired hotel is a three-star property with 128 rooms and is situated to the west of Bremen, a city with 570,000 residents. Uberseestadt, where the hotel is located, is the former port area of the Walle district and is currently being built up as a modern mixed-use business and residential space.
** Amid Ladakh standoff, India inaugurates world’s highest motorable road: 5 points
Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday inaugurated 24 bridges and three roads built by Border Roads Organisation to strengthen strategic capabilities of India. Among these projects is the Chisumle-Demchok road at Umling La Pass.
** Discovery Channel Makes A Feature Film On The First Indian Wildlife Photographer, Yashas Narayan
Yashas Narayan, one of the most reputed wildlife photographers of India. It would be prudent to say that he is one of the best big cat trackers that India has seen. Proudly known for his astonishing and mesmerising portfolio of India’s tigers, leopards, and black panthers, he is now the first Indian wildlife photographer to get a feature film made by the Discovery networks.
Titled “Eye to Eye With a Tiger”, Yashas got an opportunity to lead a team of highly dedicated professionals to capture the serenity amidst the short lives in the modern world. Partnering with the World Wildlife Fund to support Project CAT, Discovery’s collaboration aims to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022 by spreading awareness about deforestation, poaching, and overhunting of the tigers’ prey. Similarly, Samsung has sponsored this film to raise awareness about Project CAT.
** Mumbai Rewind: Jewish Cemetery, a vestige of the city’s once-thriving Baghdadi trading community
The cemetery also pays tribute to many members of the community who faced torture at the hands the Nazis.
** UNESCO adds Durga Puja to Intangible Cultural Heritage
‘The Red road carnival, which displays the craftsmanship that goes into the making of pandals, have made more people across the world aware of the grandeur’
* DFRL’s ready-to-eat menu for Gaganyaan mission
The Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) in Mysuru has prepared a slew of ready-to-eat dishes tailor-made for India’s space programme Gaganyaan.
The DFRL has prepared about 40 to 50 menus comprising both vegetarian and non-vegetarian items and the trials are in the preliminary stages.
** Indian-origin Anil Menon among NASA’s 10 new astronaut recruits
Born to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants, Dr Menon started as a NASA flight surgeon in 2014.
** New species found in Sikkim’s Dzongu, the ‘land of butterflies’
When Sonam Wangchuk Lepcha, from Dzongu in north Sikkim, started watching butterflies and taking pictures of them, he was not taken very seriously by the people around him. But now his hobby has led to the discovery of a new butterfly species, whose closest relatives are in southeastern China, close to Hong Kong.
** Ace mountaineer from Uttarakhand becomes first woman president of Indian Mountaineering Foundation
She has been honoured with the Arjuna award for her achievements in the field of mountaineering.
Noted mountaineer from Uttarakhand Harshwanti Bisht has earned the distinction of being elected the first woman president of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF).