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  PM Modi makes a surprise visit to Ladakh

  News | July 03, 2020 11:31 IST

  Amid an ongoing impasse between India and China at the LAC, PM Modi reached Leh along with CDS General Bipin Rawat. He will be briefed on the present situation in the Eastern Ladakh.

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  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Leh being rescheduled

  News | July 02, 2020 13:52 IST

  Defence Minister was scheduled to visit Leh tomorrow to review the security situation in Eastern Ladakh, in view of the Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control.

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  Ladakh standoff: India, China hold third round of Lt Gen-level talks in Chushul

  India | June 30, 2020 15:10 IST

  India-China are holding another round of Corps Commander-level talks as discussions between the two armies take place in Chushul, in Leh district to resolve the ongoing dispute over Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh region.

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  Air surveillance continues in Leh

  News | June 26, 2020 15:58 IST

  Strict air surveillance continued in Ladakh's Leh on June 26.

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  Army Chief General MM Narvane meets injured soldiers at military hospital in Leh

  India | June 23, 2020 18:09 IST

  Even as talks to de-escalate tension between India and China go on, Army Chief General Manoj Naravane paid a visit to military hospital in Leh and interacted with injured soldiers. Army Chief also spoke with soldiers who were injured in a scuffle between Indian and Chinese armies on June 15. 

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  Army chief Gen MM Naravane meets brave soldiers in Leh's Army Hospital

  News | June 23, 2020 16:47 IST

  Army Chief General MM Naravane is in Ladakh on a two-day visit to review the on-ground situation after the face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Galwan valley in which 20 Indian troops were killed in the line of duty on June 15.

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  Military chopper, fighter jet activity seen in Leh

  News | June 19, 2020 19:30 IST

  Military chopper and fighter jet activity was seen in Ladakh on June 19. Activity was witnessed amid ongoing situation between China and India after violent face-off in Galwan valley in Ladakh.

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  Eastern Ladakh tension: IAF chief pays quiet visit to Leh, Srinagar

  India | June 19, 2020 18:45 IST

  The Indian Air Force has put all its frontline bases along the 3,500-km de-facto border with China on high alert and moved in additional assets like fighter jets and attack helicopters as part of heightened state of preparedness following the clashes.

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  China won't enter a war with India just because of the LAC standoff: Former NSA MK Narayanan

  World | May 29, 2020 21:52 IST

  Former NSA MK Narayanan said that during his conversations with past Chinese leaders, including former Premier Wen Jiabao, he had gleamed that Beijing appreciates the soft power of India’s civilisational ethos

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  Situation at Indian border 'overall stable and controllable': China

  World | May 27, 2020 16:06 IST

  The comments by the Foreign Ministry spokesman came in the backdrop of the continuing standoff between the militaries of India and China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC)

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  China plans to begin evacuating its citizens stranded in India from June 2

  India | May 25, 2020 18:21 IST

  China's notice comes in the backdrop of a rising number of coronavirus cases in India and the ongoing face-off with troops from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) along the LAC in the Leh region

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  Army chief General Naravane briefs Rajnath Singh on face-off with Chinese troops at Leh border

  India | May 24, 2020 22:30 IST

  General MM Naravane held a discussion with Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh upon the return of the Indian Army chief from the Leh border, where Indian and Chinese troops are engaged in a face-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC)

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  Srinagar-Leh highway closed due to fresh snowfall

  India | April 17, 2020 16:28 IST

  ​The Srinagar-Sonamarg-Leh highway has been closed for the vehicular traffic after the area received fresh snowfall at the Zojila pass in the Kashmir Valley, officials said on Friday.  

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  Leh: Kargil man tests positive for coronavirus, tracting contacts

  India | April 02, 2020 15:04 IST

  A man from Kargil has tested positive for coronavirus and efforts are being made to trace all his contacts, a senior official said on Thursday.

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  3 new coronavirus cases in Ladakh: 2 in Leh, 1 in Kargil

  India | March 21, 2020 13:04 IST

  Total number of coronavirus cases in Ladakh have risen to 13 as 3 new cases were confirmed on Saturday from the newly formed union territory. As per latest reports, 2 persons have tested positive in Leh while another one has contracted the virus in Kargil.

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  3 more COVID 19 confirmed cases surface in Ladakh

  India | March 17, 2020 13:08 IST

  Three more people have tested positive for COVID 19 in Ladakh on Tuesday. Out of three new cases, two have tested positive in Leh and one in Kargil district, taking the total number of positive cases in Ladakh to 6.

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  Coronavirus: Indian citizen with travel history to Iran dies in Leh; samples sent for COVID-19 test

  India | March 08, 2020 23:21 IST

  A man admitted to a hospital in Leh passed away on Sunday, in what could be the first possible death due to the deadly coronavirus outbreak in the country

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  5.2-magnitude earthquake jolts Leh

  India | February 26, 2020 21:23 IST

  An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Leh in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. The earthquake tremors were felt at 8.34 pm Wednesday night. The depth of the earthquake is said to be about 20 kilometers. The intensity of the earthquake falls in the "moderate" category.

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  Rising night temperatures bring relief in Ladakh, J&K

  India | December 04, 2019 15:48 IST

  The minimum in Leh town of Ladakh region increased by 2.8 degrees to settle at minus 12.8 degrees Celsius, while Srinagar recorded a low of minus 2.4 degrees Celsius

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  Minus 15.6 degrees Celsius in Leh, temperature dropping in several parts of north India

  India | December 03, 2019 21:28 IST

  In Delhi, the minimum temperature was 9.1 degrees Celsius on Tuesday but weather experts said it is likely to drop to 7 degrees Celsius by Friday as high-velocity northwesterly winds continue to blow from the hills.