Global climate change has hit hard every place on earth and humans have been failing all their efforts to either restrict it or lessen its effects. Though humans have always been active in finding alternatives to the possibilities that the earth offers. These alternatives have often their own repercussions, inviting yet other challenges to be dealt with. This is largely due to the trampling of boundaries set by nature in the guise of the contemporary yet temporary ways of life. As Vidal De L...
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غزل – خاموش بستی
تنِ تنہا چہکتا ہے کسی خاموش بستی میں
پرندہ ہے جو رہتا ہےکسی خاموش بستی میں
کنارہ ہے وہ سورو کا جہاں اُس کا ٹھکانہ ہے
وہ اک دریا جو بہتا ہے کسی خاموش بستی میں
شبِ تاریک میں اٹھکر یہی اب کام ہے اُسکا
کلامِ میر پڑھتا ہے کسی خاموش بستی میں
وہ دوری اہلِ خانہ سے جدائی اپنے یاروں کی
الم کیا کیا وہ سہتا ہےکسی خاموش بستی میں
نگاہیں نم دلِ پُرغم کبھی جب ساتھ ملتے ہیں
سخن کا ساز بڑھتا ہے کسی خاموش بستی میں
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Qazi Syed Mohd Askary’s visit: Purpose not solved
The renowned scholar and learned cleric Moulana Qazi Syed Mohammad Askary visited the Kargil district on the auspicious occasion of the demise anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini (r.a.). Moulana Qazi Askary is not a stranger to the people of Kargil, especially to the elders who had (in past) a habit to read.
Moulana Askary’s publications especially “Towheed” and “Payam-e-Saqlain” were widely read in the Kargil district at the onset of the Islamic Revolution. His audio cassettes were also w...
انسانیت کے علمبردار حضرت امام خمینیؒ
بیسویں صدی کے ایک عظیم اور تاریخ سازشخصیت ۔ظلم وجہالت،بربریت اوربدترین تہذیب وتمدن سے نجات دلانے والے ،دین اسلام پر ایمان کامل رکھنے والے،پختہ عزم ،قوی حوصلہ اور بلند افکارات کے حامل ،انصاف اور انسانیت کے علمبردار،عظیم فقیہ اور ممتاز سیاست مدار حضرت آیت اللہ العظمیٰ سید روح اللہ خمینی ؒ تین دہائیاں گزر جانے کے بعد بھی عظیم الشان کارناموں ،بلند افکارات،ممتاز نظریات اور بے باک تجربات کی صورت میں زندہ وپائندہ ہےاور تادیرسرمشق عمل بن کر نسلوں کو فکری تربیت اور نظریاتی رہنمائی کرتے رہیں گے۔
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JJM: Providing water for all in Kargil
To provide functional tap connections to each household, the Union Territory of Ladakh in general and the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department in particular, has been at the forefront to provide drinking water to people through Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), a Government of India scheme.
The hamlet of Chay Chay Thang in Kanoor village of district Kargil had no supply of pure drinking water. Nor, it had any water pipeline connection at their houses.
As a result of Jal Jeevan Mission (J...
Road Safety awareness in Ladakh should take precedence over traffic violations
The man behind wheel plays an important role in most road crashes. In most cases, crashes occur either due to carelessness or due to a lack of road safety awareness of the road user. Hence, road safety education is as essential as any other basic skill of survival.
Despite global stagnancy and uncertainty owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and consequent lockdown, road accidents have managed to claim 29,415 lives just between March and June, with an additional 51970 casualties. Clearly, road ...
Imperatives for Carbon Neutral Ladakh
Ladakh UT Administration has already embarked on efforts to make Ladakh carbon neutral after PM Modi’s announcement of the same in his Independence Day speech in 2020. Accordingly, a Workshop on State Energy Efficiency Action Plan for stakeholders was also held in both Kargil and Leh aimed to assess the current energy consumption pattern of the UT. This step could be seen as a good fortune for the ecologically fragile Ladakh. But as discussed by PM Modi himself this target of making Ladakh c...
Revisiting NH-301 Realignment: The Paradoxes of Environment and Development
Among many things, the government of India is very keen on developing road infrastructure in UT Ladakh, this has become even more important after the escalation in tension with the country’s largest neighbour. Sharmistha Mukherjee writes in The Economic Times, “the government’s emphasis on infrastructure development in border areas after the escalation in tensions with its largest neighbour, sale of construction equipment to the Border Road Organization (BRO) has increased 50% in the first h...
Kargil Administration! Attention Please
For the last many years, inflation is a major concern for people across the country for which Ladakh is not an exception. The increasing rates of fuel, food and civil supplies, traffic, and other fines, are already widening the hole in public pockets. This is added by some other peripheral expenses that identified recently in the Kargil market.
As a student, we need printouts of notes and research articles on daily basis. The Internet Café and Xerox shops charge Rs 10 per page, five if pr...
Agriculture in Kargil: A shift from traditional equipment to technology
By: Anwar Ali Tsarpa & Md. Hassnain Ebadi
With the passage of time farmers in Kargil have shifted from traditional farming techniques to technology which is resulting in declining in both the quantity and quality of the agriculture produces. Adopting new techniques and technology in agricultural processes without proper thought of the consequences is causing agriculture expensive while the return on production is the least. To reflect on the shift, the Voice of Ladakh correspondent interv...