Rains, floods grip North India; Disrupt lifeHeavy rains in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have caused widespread disruption, including landslides and rising river levels, tragically res...
04 Sep, 2025, 12.00 AM IST
Indian Army plans to deploy 500 drones to replace mules, helicopters in some areasThese drones will replace mules and helicopters for delivering medicines and essential items to remote Border Observation Posts (BOPs). Equ...
15 Nov, 2023, 03.57 PM IST
Off the beaten path: Demand for alternative accommodations see a spike in IndiaAccording to Booking.com’s Travel Predictions 2023, a significant 64% of Indian travellers now seek “off-grid” style vacations. Travellers ...
29 Jun, 2023, 03.51 PM IST
Zojila-tunnel to Ladakh may be ready in 2025, a year ahead of sept 2026 scheduleThe engineering team engaged in the projects said the project involves 18-km tunnels, including a 13-km single tube tunnel falling in the f...
10 Apr, 2023, 02.41 PM IST
COVID-19: Curfew extended in Ladakh till May 24The extension of the curfew, which was scheduled to end on May 17, was ordered by the district magistrates of Leh and Kargil in separate or...
16 May, 2021, 05.53 PM IST
SpiceJet begins freighter services to LehThe launch of the dedicated freighter services to Leh, the first by any domestic airlines, will boost connectivity to the area, SpiceJet sa...
26 Nov, 2020, 04.03 PM IST
Local residents trekking to Indian Army tents supplying essential itemsFor more than a week now, scores of locals and volunteers have been trekking to the Indian Army tents in forward locations of Chushul in La...
08 Sep, 2020, 10.45 PM IST
ITBP escorts over 900 essential supply trucks in Ladakh"The force has escorted over 900 supply trucks over the last three weeks from Zojila to Kargil," ITBP spokesperson Vivek Kumar Pandey said.
12 May, 2020, 04.04 AM IST
One more person tests positive for coronavirus in LadakhOne more person with travel history to Iran tested positive for coronavirus in Ladakh on Thursday, taking the total number of cases in the ...
12 Mar, 2020, 03.34 PM IST
COVID19: After closing schools, Ladakh UT shuts all colleges, university till March 31The UT's Chushot Gongma area, with people who had returned after a pilgrimage in Iran, has been cordoned off under the containment policy t...
11 Mar, 2020, 02.54 PM IST
View: Ladakh will greatly benefit from government's decision to make it into a Union TerritoryThe passes of Ladakh connect Central Asia, South Asia and China, and the region is cut off from the rest of India for six months during win...
07 Aug, 2019, 11.21 PM IST
In J&K tomorrow, PM to launch works on Zojilla Tunnel, other projectsThe tunnel will cut down the time taken to cross the Zojila pass from the present 3.5 hours to just 15 minutes, besides making the drive mu...
18 May, 2018, 05.29 PM IST
Dharmendra Pradhan seeks independent reports on LPG availability from hilly areasOil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has sought independent reports on the availability of domestic cooking gas (LPG) from remote and hilly area...
09 Sep, 2015, 02.09 PM IST
Maintenance of Manali-Leh highway halted for past few years due to a CBI inquiryAll maintenance by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) of a strategically significant highway has been halted for the past few years.
14 Jul, 2015, 05.37 AM IST
Indian Oil Corp's Lotus Xangpo petrol pump world's highest altitude outletIOC's petrol pump, Lotus Xangpo Memorial filling station, in Leh has become the world's highest altitude retail outlet to be powered by sol...
16 Jun, 2015, 05.20 PM IST
Oil cos make LPG, petrol available in Jammu and KashmirState- owned oil firms have made available about 33,300 domestic cooking gas cylinders and several hundred litres of petrol in Srinagar.
18 Sep, 2014, 04.51 PM IST
- Minister reviews movement of essential supplies to Ladakh
Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Transport Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen on Saturday reviewed the movement of food grains and constructional materia...
20 Apr, 2008, 05.08 AM IST