Leh is a City in the Leh district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It was the capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh, the seat of which was in the Leh Palace, the former mansion of the royal family of Ladakh, built in the same style and about the same time as the Potala Palace in Tibet, the chief residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamshala, India, during the 1959 Tibetan uprising. Read More
Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal on Wednesday said that 231 pilgrims from Ladakh who had been evacuated from Iran have reached Leh after completing the quarantine period. ...
The Central Public Works Department (CPWD), the central agency for execution of public works is currently working on orders worth Rs 2.5 lakh crore, said Director General, CPWD Prabhakar Singh on Wednesday. ...
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday carried out a bureaucratic reshuffle, and odered transfers and postings of nine officers including eight Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) officers to various positions. ...
Paying homage to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary, a mass cleanliness drive and awareness programme was orgsed in Leh. ...
As a regular feature of providing specialised health services to the people of Ladakh, a weeklong medical camp was started at SNM district hospital here from Tuesday. ...
In a bid to develop the Ladakh region, Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur on Tuesday announced setting up of a cricket and sports academy in the region to ensure that talented athletes get the required training. ...
Over a month after Ladakh got the Union Territory status, anxiety has replaced initial excitement. The fear of "outsiders" threatening the existence of locals has gripped the streets of Leh. ...
Expressing concern over the lack of adequate basic facilities to cater to the growing number of tourists in Leh town of Ladakh, Sonam Wangchuk popularly known as Phunsuk Wangdu from the movie '3 idiots' met Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Pate ...
