PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation has requested the district collector’s office to handover 15 state government plots for various developmental works such as road construction, water tanks, sports grounds and riverbed beautification projects. The district collector’s office has said that the land for setting up water supply infrastructure will be given free-of-cost whereas the PMC will have to pay the …
China on Wednesday termed its joint efforts with Nepal to measure Mount Everest's height as a new milestone for the burgeoning friendship between the two countries, with its official media saying it is a crucial step towards solving few remaining bilateral disputes. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, during a media briefing here, said that the new height of Mt …
Kathmandu/Beijing: The world's highest peak is now taller by 86 centimetres, Nepal and China jointly announced on Tuesday after they remeasured Mt. The exact height of Mount Everest had been contested ever since a group of British surveyors in India declared the height of Peak XV, as it was initially called, to be 8,778 metres in 1847. The new height …
A member of the survey team takes a photo with a full moon on a campsite at Mount Qomolangma, on May 7, 2020. Survey team sets out on challenging mission atop Mount Qomolangma China has launched its most comprehensive scientific survey of Mount Qomolangma, including remeasuring its height. More than 30 Chinese surveyors left base camp at Mount Qomolangma, known …