LEH — Seven soldiers were killed and several others injured when a vehicle carrying them skidded off the road and fell into the Shyok River in Ladakh on Friday, Army officials said. The accident took place in the Tuktuk sector at around 9 am at a place which is around 25 kilometers from Thoise in […]
LEH — Twelve passengers, including five children, trapped inside an overturned mini-bus following an accident were rescued by the Army and provided necessary medical assistance here, a defence spokesperson said on Tuesday. Two passenger mini-buses collided with each other on the Shyok-Durbuk road on Monday, following which one of the vehicles turned turtle, he said. […]
NEW DELHI — China has begun constructing a second bridge across the Pangong Lake that will be capable of accommodating heavy armoured vehicles, months after completing another bridge in the same region that is claimed by India, reported Hindustan Times. According to the HT report, second bridge is being constructed parallel to the first bridge, […]
SRINAGAR — An earthquake of mild intensity shook Ladakh region on Wednesday evening, an official said. The earthquake of magnitude 5.2 occurred at 1705 hours (7:05 p.m.), local meteorological department official here told GNS while quoting National Centre for Seismology. He that the earthquake had a depth of 110 km, a longitude of 75.18 east […]
LEH — The Ladakh administration organised the first ‘Siachen ice climbing festival’ at the Nubra valley here, officials said on Wednesday. The festival, organised with an aim to promote the glacier as an adventure spot, was inaugurated by Sarpanch Khemi Halqa in presence of officials from the Ladakh Police and residents of Tongsted village on […]
KARGIL — Thousands of people protested here on Saturday against the bombing of a Shia mosque in Pakistan that left 62 worshippers dead and nearly 200 others injured the previous day. A suicide bomber, belonging to the ISIS-Khorasan, blew himself up inside a mosque in Qissa Khwani bazaar in Peshawar, capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on […]
LEH — Ladakh UT Administration has announced a total of 797 non-gazetted recruitment posts for advertisement by Staff Selection Commission (SSC). The notice for the said posts will be published in May 2022. According to a statement, the name of the examination is Selection Post Recruitment/Ladakh/2022. The examination will be Computer Based Exam (CBE) and […]
LADAKH — Cultural activist from Goma Kargil, Anayat Ali Shotopa organised a special event to mark Kargil’s ethnic food festival of Mamani for the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, R. K.Mathur. The LG of Ladakh was accompanied by the Chief Executive Councillor of LAHDC, Kargil, Feroz Ahmad Khan and Deputy Commissioner, Kargil Santosh Sukhdeve at Circuit […]
LEH — After facing severe criticism and witnessing several protests against the government for notwithstanding the promises, the Ladakh administration Tuesday informed that the recruitment process in the region will begin from May onwards. The cold desert Ladakh was created as a separate Union Territory back in 2019. However, a year after the UT status […]
LEH — BJP national president JP Nadda on Sunday appointed Phunchok Stanzin as the president of party’s Ladakh unit. Phunchok Stanzin has served as a state vice-president of BJP Ladakh and executive councillor of BJP-led Leh Council. The appointment of Phunchok Stanzin as the president of BJP’s Ladakh unit comes into power with immediate effect. […]