Leh: Shading her eyes from the sun, Tsering Angmo puts the spade back on the ground, and rests one foot on a rock to take a break. Her hands and clothes are coated in dust. Angmo, 37, survived the flash floods that devastated Leh early August and claimed over 150 lives leaving hundreds homeless.
*Inaugurates power station at Leh
LEH, Nov 26: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah today inaugurated Rs 8 crore 4.5 MW diesel power station at Leh which will augment the current electric supply in the area besides electrifying the newly developed Solar Colony for the affected families of flash floods at Choglamsar.
The Chief Minister visited Leh this morning, inspected the rehabilitation works at va
Leh: They call it, Jhakzang, an auspicious day for moving into a new house. And across Solar camp, the biggest rehabilitation colony in Leh, men and women are carrying mattresses, mats and bags from canvas tents to their new homes.
Leh: Two months after flashfloods devastated the region and left over 200 dead, thousands of people, including Hong Kong musician-filmmaker Kenny Pee and Spanish actor Carlos Leal, turned out to plant saplings to create environmental awareness at Karu on Leh outskirts on Sunday.
In the process, around 9,000 people, who planted 50,033 Ladakh willow saplings in 33 minutes and 25 seconds over
LEH , Oct 6: A high level Central Steering Committee headed by the Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) Deepak Gupta reviewed the progress of Rs.
Union Minister of Steel Virbhadra Singh today opined that there was a need to ban export of iron ore. Rather export of value added products should be encouraged.
Srinagar: The Punjab government on Thursday announced a relief of Rs 1 crore for the rehabilitation of cloudburst and flash flood victims of Leh district in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.
SRINAGAR, Sept 1: Due to flash floods and cloudburst in Leh last month, 28 thousand quintals of food grains of different standing crops spread over 1400 hector of agriculture land have been damaged.
This was revealed from the survey of SKUAST(K) conducted about the damage caused to the Agriculture crop and land by the cloudburst.
The survey team was deputed by the Minister for Agriculture, G
