Category: Ladakh

Complete De-escalation Yet to Happen on India-China Border, News Reports False: Satellite Imagery Expert

NEW DELHI—Recent media reports of a complete de-escalation on the India-China border in Eastern Ladakh are false as Chinese troops have not retreated from the friction points last created post May 2020, when the conflict between the two armies escalated, according to an Indian satellite imagery expert. “Latest images do not indicate any significant troop or…


Bus Carrying Indian Soldiers Falls Into Remote Gorge; 7 Dead

SRINAGAR, India—A bus carrying soldiers fell into a gorge in India’s remote Ladakh region on Friday, killing at least seven and injuring 19 others, officials said. The bus plunged off a mountainous road and rolled down the 25-meter (80-foot) -deep gorge in the frigid region’s Nubra Valley, police said. The injured soldiers were flown to…


China is Building a New Strategic Road Linking Tibet and Xinjiang That Should Concern India: Experts

NEW DELHI–China is working to link the regions of Tibet and Xinjiang with a new road named “G216” that’s set to bring the greatest strategic challenge to India since the 1950s, according to experts. “The G216 highway is rarely mentioned in the Chinese media; it is one of China’s most secret projects,” Claude Arpi, an…


US-India Relationship: Brahma Chellaney on India’s Role in Deterring Chinese Military Aggression

India is fighting against Chinese military aggression. An ongoing border dispute with the Chinese Communist Party is drawing the South Asian nation closer to the United States. A new Indo-Pacific plan from the Biden administration calls for more cooperation with India. What are the key reasons to do so? I am joined by Brahma Chellaney,…


Chinese Nomads Seen in Indian Territory, Indian Nomads Restricted, After Border Conflict

NEW  DELHI—Nomads in Ladakh on India’s border with China face uncanny situations after the last year’s bloody conflict between the two countries—while they sight nomads grazing their yaks from across the border, restrictions imposed by the Indian military keep them away from their traditional pastures. A Ladakhi public servant, Kunchok Stanzin, shared with The Epoch Times…


Chinese Raise a Red Banner and Flags as Indians Celebrate Dalai Lama’s Birthday on Border

NEW DELHI—Chinese civilians put up a red banner and five-stared red flags in view of Indian villagers who were celebrating the birthday week of Dalai Lama on the other side of the Indus River in a village called Koyul in the Nyoma sector of Ladakh on the de facto border between China and India on…


Indian Villages in Ladakh on Border With China Need Basic Services

LEH—Dorjee Dadul, 54 is a resident of Maan, one of the most beautiful villages on India’s border with China in Ladakh, on the banks of the iconic Pangong Tso lake. Far away from crowds, markets, and the urban clutter, Maan, home to 28 households offers some of the most picturesque homestay facilities to Indian tourists…


Route of the Gods | Mythical Roads

From Leh, the capital of Ladakh, to Benares in the valley of the Ganges, the route crosses the Himalayan Mountains at an altitude of 5000m. Rancid butter, incense, and petrol are the three distinctive smells of the Himalayas and will follow travelers during their voyage. In a car, the mountainous and woodsy landscape flashes by….


1962 Prisoner-of-War in Remote Indo-China Border Village Recalls History, Seeks Help

PANGONG TSO—Eighty-two-year-old Tseten Namgyal is dressed in an Indian army jersey. Age and the tough, intensely cold trans-Himalayan terrain has hunched his back a bit, and his visibly thick-skinned fingers look almost mummified yet alive. But his candor about being a 1962 prisoner of war and the servant and the porter of one of India’s…


Group of Engineers Reach Inaccessible India With Solar Water Heaters and Lights During COVID

NEW DELHI—A group of seven engineers in India is working to solve a problem which people only in the high, inaccessible Himalayan region of Ladakh encountered during the pandemic—how to wash your hands when every single drop of water freezes and there’s an extreme scarcity of water. More generally the people of Ladakh faced the…