NEW DELHI: Ladakh-based climate activist and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk and over 170 people, who were on way to the national capital as part of their Delhi Chalo Padyatra demanding sixth schedule status for the UT, were detained by Delhi Police at the Singhu border on Monday night for allegedly “violating prohibitory orders”. Wangchuk and…
Delhi chief minister Atishi and LG VK Saxena (File Images) NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Atishi on Tuesday claimed that the police didn’t allow her to meet Ladakh climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who was detained at 1 am, on the orders of LG VK Saxena and said that this “dictatorship is not right”.Activist and education…
NEW DELHI: Army Chief Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday described the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh as stable but sensitive.Addressing a curtain raiser event for the Chanakya Defence Dialogue, Gen Dwivedi acknowledged the positive signalling coming from diplomatic talks between the two countries, which aim to find an early resolution…
NEW DELHI: As the Delhi police detained climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and other supporters at Singhu border, Rahul Gandhi condemned the act calling it “unacceptable.”“The detention of Sonam Wangchuk ji and hundreds of Ladakhis peacefully marching for environmental and constitutional rights is unacceptable. Why are elderly citizens being detained at Delhi’s border for standing up…
NEW DELHI: The Indian defence establishment is now working out a stringent mechanism to ensure that military drones being acquired from domestic private sector companies do not have Chinese components in them, even as the Army has called drone manufacturers to showcase their products in a high-altitude area in Ladakh later this month.An “appropriate methodology”,…
KOLKATA: The ‘Justice for RG Kar‘ campaign reached new heights, quite literally, as mountaineers from a north Kolkata trekkers’ association scaled 6,400-plus-metre Kang Yatze peak in Ladakh and unfurled a poster there demanding justice for the trainee doctor who was brutally raped and murdered at the medical hospital on Aug 9.The mountaineers also raised the…
NEW DELHI: Ministry of home affairs on Monday announced five new districts in Union territory of Ladakh, ahead of assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir. The five new districts will be Zanskar, Drass, Sham, Nubra and Changthang.Home minister announced the decision in a post on X, saying, “In pursuit of PM Shri @narendramodi Ji’s vision…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted first ever raids in the Union Territory of Ladakh as part of its money laundering probe linked to a cryptocurrency fraud case in which it is alleged that 2,508 investors lost more than Rs 7 crore worth of deposits, officials said.The searches, carried out by the agency’s…
NEW DELHI: Amid signs of a renewed effort by India and China to resolve the military standoff in eastern Ladakh, India and China held another round of diplomatic talks for an early completion of the disengagement process that India sees as essential for resuming normal bilateral exchanges.While there was no breakthrough in the talks as…
The GROWTH-India telescope, stationed at the Indian Astronomical Observatory site at Hanle, Ladakh, caught the building-sized asteroid on its closest approach to Earth. A 0.7m wide-field telescope set up in Ladakh as a joint partnership between IIA and IIT Bombay has tracked the rapid motion of the asteroid as it zipped across the sky at…
