Leh district poll officer said that act of bribery violates model code of conduct and amounts to a criminal offence.
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Severe cold wave in Kashmir, Ladakh
Srinagar, A severe cold wave lashed Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Saturday as Leh recorded minus 15.8 degrees Celius and the Met forecast no change in conditions for at least the next five days till Thursday. “For the next five days we are not expecting any change in[Read More…]
Bilaspur-Leh proposed railway line may be declared ‘national project’
New Delhi: The railways has suggested that strategically important 465-km railway line proposed between Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur and Jammu and Kashmir’s Leh along the Indo-China border be declared a “national project”, a Northern Railway (NR) official said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference here, NR General Manager Vishesh Chaubey said:[Read More…]
Unsung election victory of Congress for Shey-Thiksay seat in the Ladakh
Despite the fact that the sole MP from Ladakh belongs to Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress won the Shey-Thiksay seat in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), which runs the key district of Leh. The election which were held last month, went unnoticed by national media, but it is[Read More…]
Fighting climate change: How a ‘crazy’ engineer solved Ladakh’s water crisis
Leh: Years back, on a harsh winter morning in Ladakh in the northernmost Himalayas in India, a young and curious boy in a remote mountain village of the cold desert observed water coming out of a semi-frozen pipe, collecting in a small crater on the ground and freezing, just like[Read More…]