Despite tough geographical terrain and hostile weather conditions in the snow-bound and inaccessible remote areas, Ladakh on Monday kept up the trend of a high turnout by recording an overall impressive poll percentage of 71.10. Women folk set an example in the remote Ladakh region again on Monday when they manned 49 polling stations in … Read more
Many rural areas in Ladakh, the cold desert of the country, have unanimously elected new sarpanches and panches for the restoration of grass-roots level democracy. Nearly 40 per cent sarpanches and 94 per cent panches in Leh district have already been elected unopposed even as the panchayat elections are to start in the Ladakh region … Read more
Doctors have performed successful thrombolysis at an altitude of 13,500 feet at Khaltse Hospital, around 100 km from Leh in the cold desert of Ladakh, on a man who had suffered a heart attack. Thrombolysis is the breakdown of clots in blood vessels by pharmacological means to ensure normal flow of blood. If done within … Read more
The local Druk Padma Karpo School, which shot to fame after it featured in the Aamir Khan-starrer “3 Idiots”, has decided to raze the ‘Rancho wall’ and ban the entry of tourists as the authorities felt it was becoming a distraction for students. The wall was shot in a scene when one of the characters, … Read more
Bilaspur–Manali–Leh line is a proposed high-elevation all-weather 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge railway track that is planned to connect Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh to Leh in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. In a few years’ time, tourists in India can visit Leh all-year-round all thanks to the Indian railways plan of … Read more
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the nation’ largest fuel retailer’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) bottling plant in Leh district of Jammu & Kashmir, the world’s highest such facility, will now be run on solar power. Here things to know about world’s highest LPG bottling plant in Leh: The company has switched its LPG liquefied petroleum gas bottling plant at Leh, … Read more