Security forces found an old hand-grenade and safely defused it in the Kargil district of the Union Territory of Ladakh, officials said. An old hand-grenade was found near a river in the Pandras ...

The Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, Shri Kavinder Gupta today met the Hon’ble Union Finance Minister, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman ...

People from Ladakh participate in a sit-in protest demanding constitutional safeguards for their mountainous region in Leh, India, March 24, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Sonam Dorje Thousands of people in ...

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India on Tuesday firmly rejected Pakistan’s reference to Jammu and Kashmir during an open debate at the United Nations ...

In a momentous achievement for the Union Territory of Ladakh, the Ladakh Archery Team has delivered an outstanding performance at the Senior Archery National Championships held in Hyderabad, where 31 ...

The Takthok monastery, some 50 kilometres south-east of Leh, the capital of India's northern Ladakh region, belongs to the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism with direct links to Indian scholar ...

Ladakh, an ecologically fragile Himalayan region, is facing rising unemployment alongside the risk of war. Credit: Tarushi Aswani Subscribe for ads-free reading LEH, LADAKH, INDIA — Padma Stanzin has ...

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Hidden in the high valleys of India's Kashmir region, Ladakh is one of the most remote lands on Earth. Thanks to snows in the high elevations, this place, formerly an independent Buddhist kingdom, is ...

It wasn’t much of an obstacle, considering all we had tramped through and over the past four days in northern India: dusty desert, precipitous paths and a 15,910-foot mountain pass that had our lungs ...

SRINAGAR, India — Dozens were injured in the remote Indian region of Ladakh on Wednesday as hundreds of people demanding federal statehood from the Indian government clashed with law enforcement, ...