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Topic: Ladakh

Ladakh is future-proofing against climate change with ice stupas—less snow, melting glaciers

Engineers in Ladakh now collaborate with teams in the Andes and Switzerland, building artificial ice structures and stupas. But a fast warming climate has increased the urgency of villagers, organisations, and researchers.

SubscriberWrites: The Strength of Agni-III as a Deterrent

Induces to service in 2011, AGNI-III is expected to have technologies like improved guidance as well as control, mission sequencing, state of the art avionics, etc.

‘No headway’ but 2021 Israel Embassy blast is ‘sword hanging’ over 4 Ladakh men

The four Muslim men then in their 20s were released on bail in July 2021 owing to lack of ‘incriminating’ evidence against them & haven’t been called in for questioning since.

US military report on China flags its aggression towards India, stockpiling of nuclear weapons

Report says Beijing will probably have over 1,000 operational nuclear warheads by 2030 and is expanding its number of land, sea, and air-based nuclear delivery platforms.

Proposed Aksai Chin railway line will multiply China’s military capacity, says army veteran

At seminar by Institute of Chinese Studies, Col.(Retd.) V.S. Verma highlights implications of China’s proposed railway line and suggests means to resolve India-China border issue.

‘People concerned about China’s intrusion,’ says Rahul in Ladakh. ‘Look within,’ hits back Scindia 

Reacting to the Congress MP's comment during his Ladakh trip, Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia says country was under Congress when 'China grabbed 45k sq km of Indian territory' post '62 war.

Higher than Umling La, world’s highest motorable road coming up in eastern Ladakh, courtesy BRO

Connecting Likaru with Fukche, new road will play crucial role in providing LAC access to armed forces to be deployed along Indus valley in Fukche, right up to Demchok.

‘Ladke ka sazaa mujhe mila’ — expelled Ladakh leader hurt by BJP’s ‘extreme step’ over son’s elopement

Nazir Ahmed rubbishes claims of ‘love jihad’, says use of such vocabulary is not in culture of Ladakh, and that he plans to approach the party high command.

BJP sacks its Ladakh vice-president after his son ‘elopes with Buddhist girl’, calls it ‘love jihad’

Party unit says Nazir Ahmed was given a chance to 'clarify his involvement', adds that 'elopement jeopardises communal harmony and unity among the people of the region'.

India, China talks fail to make headway on Depsang but both sides agree to freeze build-up

19th round of talks came ahead of PM Modi & Xi's visit to Johannesburg for BRICS Summit later this month, to be followed by latter's visit to India for G20 Summit in September.

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.