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ThePrint photos of the week: Leh’s uneasy calm, Sonam Wangchuk’s childhood & Gurugram urban farmers

In PhotosOfTheWeek we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photojournalists, video journalists and reporters this past week.

Behind Ladakh’s demand for Sixth Schedule, a decades-old fight for identity & a place at the table

As Ladakh recovers from tragedy of 24 September violence, demands for statehood & Sixth Schedule protections persist. People fear loss of cultural identity, land rights & ecological balance.

Ladakh solution requires Modi govt to go against its instincts—and devolve power to people

India was fighting both China and Pakistan during Operation Sindoor. In such a situation, it is utter folly to alienate key border regions like Ladakh and Manipur.

Sonam Wangchuk’s wife in Delhi. ‘Not allowed to speak to him, felt like I was under house arrest’

Gitanjali Angmo says she plans to meet senior lawyers in Delhi for her husband’s case. Sonam Wangchuk was detained under NSA and moved to Jodhpur jail last week.

Leh turns into a fortress for funeral of ex-serviceman who fought in Kargil but fell to police bullets

King Singay Namgyal Chowk, which leads to the funeral ground, was covered with barbed wire barricades and security personnel, some of them in riot gear, lining the road.

Leh Apex Body says no talks until peace restored, govt’s delays turned Ladakh into pressure cooker

Centre trying to make a tool kit, accusing us of being anti-national and alleging Pakistani conspiracy, says Leh Apex Body leader, blaming Centre for violent clashes that killed 4.

ThePrint photos of the week: Leh protests, World Para Athletics in Delhi & GST ‘bachat’ kicks in

New Delhi: From tense scenes in Leh amid violent protests, to a grand opening ceremony of World Para Athletics Championship in the national capital,...

On Sonam Wangchuk’s arrest, wife Gitanjali Angmo stands firm—‘he’s a Gandhian, not a threat’

Speaking to ThePrint, Angmo rejects allegations linking him to violence in Leh, says he seeks development and not rampage, and alleges ‘witch-hunt’ against HIAL & SECMOL.

Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk’s Pakistan ‘link’ under scanner

In a press conference, DGP Ladakh SD Singh Jamwal said the police have arrested a Pakistan PIO who was allegedly in touch with Wangchuk.

‘He fought in Kargil, but died by police bullets’—family mourns ex-serviceman shot dead in Leh stir

Leh's youth took to the streets on 24 September, with their protests leading to arson and violent clashes with police. Tharchin was killed hours after he stepped outside. 

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Denied RBI licence to operate, Fadnavis govt scraps Maharashtra’s asset reconstruction firm

Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.

‘Can’t really win you wars’: What IAF chief said on drones, manned aircraft & Ops Sindoor

At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.