New Delhi: Unhappy over the initial report, Defence Minister AK Antony has asked Army to take immediate "corrective" steps to see that incidents like the clash between jawans and officers at a firing range near the India-China boundary in Nyoma, Ladakh do not recur. The Minister is understood to have expressed his displeasure to the Army top brass over the initial report that is said to have attempted a cover...
03:17 PM, May 13, 2012
Srinagar: A low-intensity earthquake measuring 4.1 on Richter Scale shook parts of Jammu and Kashmir in the wee hours on Sunday. "An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 occurred at 2:20 am with its epicentre at India-China border in Ladakh region," a disaster management cell official said here. The epicentre was located 209 km east of Leh town near the border between Ladakh and Xinjiang region of China. The tremor, however, was...
12:10 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Getting an Oscar nod is quite an overwhelming experience; particularly when it comes to you on your first film. Well, nearly first film. The film I made before 'Little Terrorist' was 'Road To Ladakh'. It starred Irrfan and Koel Purie. It almost didn't get made; which is why the making-of is called 'The Near Un-making of Road To Ladakh' take a look, it's a hoot. RTL is what I call...
12:22 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Ladakh: It is just the beginning of harsh winters in Ladakh. Come December and mercury dips to a chilling -15 degrees here. But for 78-year-old Chewang Norphel, temperature is just a number as he literally skips to the top of a very rocky mountain near the Numb village. The former civil engineer, fondly called the "ice man", became CNN-IBN's Real Hero in 2008 for building more than seven artificial glaciers...
08:50 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Shara, Leh: Tsewang Dorjey is a sub-inspector with the J&K police who set up a nursery school in Shara, a small village in Ladakh where children earlier didn't even start school before the age of 7. Shara is a tiny hamlet 60 km away from Leh, one of the poorest and most inhospitable places of the region. A yellow bus takes the children to their school - Sewa Shera nursery...
08:56 AM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: China may resort to territorial grabs, including through a "major military offensive", especially in Arunachal Pradesh or Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, and India should respond with "a strategy of quid pro quo", says a report by an independent group of Indian analysts. "Our frontiers with China have been mostly stable for some years now. However, China could assert its territorial claims (especially in the Arunachal sector or...
03:38 AM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: China may resort to territorial grabs, including through a "major military offensive", especially in Arunachal Pradesh or Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, and India should respond with "a strategy of quid pro quo", says a report by an independent group of Indian analysts. "Our frontiers with China have been mostly stable for some years now. However, China could assert its territorial claims (especially in the Arunachal sector or...
01:59 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Jammu: A Ladakh-based social organisation on Sunday claimed China is increasing strength along India-China border by setting up posts near LoC in Ladakh's Demchok area. "China is increasing strength at borders with India by setting up a number of posts near LoC in Demchok and establishing connectivity within its own border area," Ladakh Phanday Tsogspa (LPT) convenor Anil Kumar said. LPT is an organisation which advocates cause of Ladakhi people....
02:59 AM, Feb 27, 2012
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01:26 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Srinagar: Over 300 stranded passengers were on Tuesday airlifted between Leh town of Ladakh region and Srinagar by special Indian Air Force (IAF) sorties arranged by the Jammu and Kashmir government, officials said. Amir Ali, officer on special duty at the provincial headquarters, told that 313 stranded passengers of Kargil were airlifted by an IL-76 cargo aircraft of the IAF. "(A total of) 171 of these were flown to Srinagar...
08:04 PM, Feb 07, 2012
A cold wave is sweeping through North India with temperatures falling below zero in Ladhak, Kargil and Srinagar. ...
12:17 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Happy birthday to me! Beat this. Getting to drive one of the world's most coveted off-roaders on top of the world. On your birthday. The SUV in question? A mind-numbing 507PS and a gut-wrenching 700Nm of torque on offer. The same one that left Sirish speechless near Pune, left villagers outside Pune wondering why there was a Rs 1.1 crore Sumo in existence. The Mercedes-Benz G 55 AMG. And for...
02:09 PM, Dec 03, 2011
New Delhi: The debate on splitting larger states has once again come to the forefront with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister announcing plans for carving out four new states: Purvanchal, Bundelkhand, Awadh and Paschim Pradesh/Harit Pradesh. There have been long standing demands across India for the formation of new states and the list includes:1. Ladakh (Jammu & Kashmir)2. Maru Pradesh (Rajasthan)3. Harit Pradesh/Paschim Pradesh (Uttar Pradesh)4. Awadh (Uttar Pradesh)5. Purvanchal/Bhojpur (Uttar...
09:28 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Srinagar: At least 11 people were killed and 25 wounded in a road accident in Kargil district of cold desert Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir late Friday evening, police said. "Eleven passengers were killed and 25 others wounded, four of them critically when a bus coming to Kargil town from Zanskar went out of the driver's control and rolled down a deep gorge at Panzilla pass yesterday night," a...
09:50 AM, Nov 05, 2011
New Delhi: In the wake of a spat between the Chinese envoy to India and a journalist, the BJP on Friday said the Government should take cognisance of such "brazen acts of undiplomatic behaviour" and warn the ambassador officially not to indulge in unfriendly acts in future. BJP insisted that such behaviour was totally unacceptable and insulting to Indian democracy and demanded an "unqualified apology" from the ambassador to the...
07:51 PM, Nov 04, 2011
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