Acting CEC Inaugurates Kargil Losar Festival

Kargil/ Jan. 05: Acting Chairman and Chief Executive Councillor (CEC), LAHDC, Kargil Mubarak Shah Nagvi inaugurated Two Days Kargil Ladakh Losar. The event is a traditional new year cultural and literary festival organized by Ladakh Academy of Culture and Languages (LAACL) at Language Center New Academy Complex, Kargil here today.

Executive Councillor for Tourism Er Phunsog Tashi was the guest of honor on the occasion. Other guests included Balti poet Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat, State awar...

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ISK Protest Recent Hazara Killings in Pakistan

Kargil/ Jan. 08/ News Desk: Hundreds of people participated in a protest rally to commemorate and to show solidarity with the people killed in an attack in Muchh Pakistan. The protest was organised by Islamia School Kargil (ISK) that marched from Islamia School Chowk to Lal Chowk and back to Islamia School.

On 3 January a Gunmen killed at least 11 mine workers at a remote coal mine in Machh area of Balochistan. 

Addressing to the gathering at Islamia School Chowk, Mr Murtaza Khalili sa...

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Comm/ Secy, Tourism Conducts Review Meeting on Issues of Hoteliers in Ladakh

Leh/ Jan 05: A meeting was convened by Commissioner Secretary, Tourism, Rigzin Sampheal to discuss various issues for hotels and guest houses at UT Secretariat today. 

Issues such as no objection certificate (NOC), fire and pollution safety norms and incentives-based issues were discussed during the meeting. Comm/ Secy informed that the matter would be taken up with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and directed Chief Wildlife Warden to put up/ follow up the case to address the p...

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Sixth Schedule Row: Centre to Form Panel to Look into Ladakh Issues

Delhi/ Jan. 06: A committee would be constituted under Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy to find an appropriate solution to the issues related to language, culture and conservation of land in the Union Territory of Ladakh, the Home Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

A 10-member delegation of Ladakh, where all members were from Leh district, met Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday.

“In view of the difficult geographical conditions and the strategic importance of Ladakh...

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Winter Sports Festival Zanskar to Begin on 15 Jan

Leh/ Jan 5: Secretary, Youth Services and Sports, UT Ladakh, Ravinder Kumar, convened a meeting regarding the first-ever Winter Sports Festival Zanskar 2021, at the Secretariat today.

The meeting was also attended by Deputy Commissioner Leh, Sachin Kumar Vaishya Leh; Stanzin Lakpa Councillor LAHDC Kargil; Director Tourism Ladakh, Kunzes Angmo; Tsering Tashi, District Youth Services and Sports Officer, Leh; Dr Thupstan Norboo, Cultural Officer; Manesh Pal Saini, Assistant Commandant, ITBP;...

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Sankoo Remembered Soleimani on “Martyrdom Anniversary”

Sankoo/ Jan. 03: Despite snowfall and bone-chilling cold weather in Kargil Ladakh, people in Sankoo marked the “martyrdom anniversary” of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani on his first anniversary after he was killed in an attack by the United States.

In this regard an impressive congregation held in memory of the top Iranian and Iraqi anti-terror commanders, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The program was organised by Anjuman-e-Sahib Zaman Sankoo and Markaz-...

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شیعہ ہزارا کے قتل عام پر گلگت بلتستان میں مظاہرے

بلتستان/ جنوری ۳/ سانحہ مچھ کیخلاف گلگت بلتستان میں احتجاجی مظاہرے کئے گئے ،مظاہروں کا اہتمام حکومت کی اتحادی جماعت مجلس وحدت المسلمین،آئی ایس او اور سول سوسائٹی نے کیا تھا۔

مظاہرے میں حکومتی عہدیداروں نے بھی شرکت کی،گلگت میںایم ڈبلیو ایم اور آئی ایس او کے کارکنوں نے احتجاجی مظاہرہ کیا ،مظاہرے میں وزیراعلیٰ کے معاون خصوصی الیاس صدیقی اور سابق رکن اسمبلی حاجی رضوان نے بھی شرکت کی۔

اس موقع پر گفتگو کرتے ہوئے الیاس صدیقی نے کہا کہ دہشت گردی کا واقعہ قابل مذمت ہے اس پر خاموش نہیں رہ سکتے...

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Ladakhi Dry Toilets – A Lesson Kargil Need to Learn from Leh

Recently we saw a village in Drass area of Kargil district, second coldest inhabited place on the earth, protesting over scarcity of water. Two days later, a video of another village from Kargil had gone viral on social media where people were seen lapsed into violence reportedly on a dispute over water. Insufficient supply of water has remained an essential issue especially in town area and also in villages.

Few miles away from the above incidents, few folk women in Minjee village, while...

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Comm/Secy Review Arrangement at Thoise Airport, Nubra

Leh/ Jan 04: To provide better services to the people of Nubra valley at Thoise Airport, a meeting was convened under the chairmanship of Rigzin Sampheal, Commissioner/ Secretary, Civil Aviation, UT administration of Ladakh, at the Civil Secretariat today. 

The meeting attended by Divisional Commissioner, Ladakh, Saugat Biswas; Secretary Cooperative, Ladakh, Ravinder Kumar; Deputy Commissioner, Leh, Sachin Kumar Vaishya; SSP, Leh, Rajiv Pandey; and officers from the Indian Army and Indian...

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IKMT Paid Tribute to General Qassem Solemani

Kargil/ Jan. 3: On the first “martyrdom anniversary” of General Qasem Solemani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis four days long programme to commemorate the “martyrs of Islam” were held in Kargil. The congregation held alongside the Ayaam-e-Fatmia (SA) under the banner of Imam Khomieni Memorial Trust Kargil (IKMT).

In this connection prose and poetic tributes were paid on Thursday, in a Majlis Muqala wa Shaer Khowani organized by the Bzam-e-Adab, Literary wing of IKMT at the Convention Hall of Im...

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