Swiss Alps

20 feared dead in plane crash in Swiss Alps

Local media and aviation websites have reported that the plane, which seated 17 passengers along with two pilots and a flight attendant, was fully booked and that no one survived.

Aug 05, 2018, 18:18 PM IST

Virender Sehwag, Shoaib Akhtar to resume their rivalry on ice

Sehwag is not new to playing exhibition games outside India. He played the MCL in Dubai and was also part of Cricket.

Nov 22, 2017, 19:59 PM IST

Swiss glacier collapses, after hundreds evacuated

Geologists had recently noticed significant movement along the "tongue" of the Trift glacier, up to 130 centimetres in a single day, local authorities said.

Sep 10, 2017, 16:11 PM IST

Pre-historic cheese making discovered in Swiss Alps

The ceramic fragments were found at six sites in the ruins of stone buildings similar to those used by modern alpine dairy managers for cheese production during the summer months, suggesting that herders were making cheeses at higher altitudes some 3,000 years ago.

Apr 24, 2016, 23:10 PM IST

Assets, including flats in the Swiss Alps, seized in FIFA probe

Apartments in the Alps are among assets seized in a probe into alleged corruption at FIFA, Switzerland's attorney general said today, warning that the inquiry had not yet reached "half-time".

Sep 15, 2015, 00:30 AM IST