The News Caravan

Tag: Ladakh

  • Earthquake Jolts Ladakh

    Earthquake Jolts Ladakh

    [ad_1]

    SRINAGAR: A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Union Territory of Ladakh on Tuesday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS).

    The tremor was felt at 10.47 am. The epicentre was 166 kilometres north of Leh town, while the depth was 105 kilometres.

    So far, there is no report of any damage.



    [ad_2]
    #Earthquake #Jolts #Ladakh

    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • JKBOSE notifies date sheet for students of class 10th, 11th & 12th, falling in hardzone areas of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.

    [ad_1]

    JKBOSE notifies date sheet for students of class 10th, 11th & 12th, falling in hardzone areas of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. – Kashmir Publication





    [ad_2]
    #JKBOSE #notifies #date #sheet #students #class #10th #11th #12th #falling #hardzone #areas #Jammu #Kashmir #Ladakh

    ( With inputs from : kashmirpublication.in )

  • Ladakh Administration Proposes 5.69 Lakh Kanals For Firing Range, Seek Public Objections

    Ladakh Administration Proposes 5.69 Lakh Kanals For Firing Range, Seek Public Objections

    [ad_1]

    SRINAGAR: The Union Territory of Ladakh plans to declare a field firing range in the Drass area of Kargil district, covering 5.69 lakh Kanals of land. The UT administration has issued a notification inviting objections from the general public.

    The notification, issued by Umang Narula, advisor to LG Ladakh and administrative secretary, Home of the Union Territory, stated that objections must be communicated to the Deputy Commissioner of Kargil within two months from the date of issuance.

    The Ladakh administration plans to allow field firing and artillery practice on a 5,69,911 Kanals and 17 Marlas area in village Matayen Kharu, district Kargil for five years, according to a proposal issued under sub-section (3) of section 9 of the Maneuvers, Field Firing and Artillery Practice Act, 1938.

    The law requires that the State/UT administration issue an intention notice before designating an area as a field firing range for use by the forces. In 2017, the government of the former state of Jammu & Kashmir designated an area of 4,80,000 Kanals (60,000 acres) located at Mandalthang, Shayok in Durbuk sub-division, Leh district as a field firing range for five years. (KNO)

    [ad_2]
    #Ladakh #Administration #Proposes #Lakh #Kanals #Firing #Range #Seek #Public #Objections

    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  •  JK High Court Notifies Rules For Live Streaming

    [ad_1]

    SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Monday issued regulations governing the live broadcasting and recording of proceedings in courts and tribunals in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

    The High Court Registrar General, Shahzad Azeem, released the rules on Monday under the title “Live Streaming and Recording of Court Sessions Rules of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, 2023.”

    Per rule 5, it is strictly forbidden to record proceedings on audio, video, or by any other method than what is required by the regulations.

    The laws further state that live streaming is prohibited during court procedures involving marriage, gender-based violence against women, sexual offenses, and instances covered by the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO Act).

    Also, cases that the bench believes may incite animosity among communities and perhaps lead to a breakdown of law and order will not be streamed live.

    Furthermore, cases that the bench believes may incite animosity among communities and perhaps lead to a breakdown of law and order will not be streamed live.

    Moreover, live streaming will not be available for any other matters in which the Chief Justice or the bench has given a special directive.

    Any individual or organization is prohibited under Rule 9 from recording, distributing, or transmitting live-streamed proceedings or archival data through print, electronic, or social media.

    It further states that any unauthorized usage of the live stream will be punishable as an offense under the Indian Copyright Act of 1957, the Information Technology Act of 2000, and other provisions of law including the law of contempt of court.

    Without the prior written consent of the Court, the live stream cannot be reproduced, copied, transferred, uploaded, posted, edited, published, or reprinted in any way.

    As per the Rules, court proceedings in matrimonial matters, cases concerning gender-based violence against women, cases concerning sexual offences and cases under the POCSO Act would stand excluded from live streaming.

    Read Rules Here / Live_Streaming_Rules

    [ad_2]
    #High #Court #Notifies #Rules #Live #Streaming

    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Congress Silent On Art 370, Wants Early Statehood and 6th Schedule to Ladakh

    Congress Silent On Art 370, Wants Early Statehood and 6th Schedule to Ladakh

    [ad_1]

    SRINAGAR: Kashmir did figure in the just concluded 3-day All India Congress Committee (AICC) plenary session in Raipur. The resolution offered clear ideas about its Kashmir policy, apparently vindicating what was already around.

    Rahul Gandhi e1677428411766
    Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka in Kheer Bhawani temple in Ganderbal after the Bharat Jodo Yatra was formally over on January 31, 2023.

    There were two mentions of Kashmir. One in Rahul Gandhi’s speech after the session was over and another in the party’s resolution.

    “52 years past and I still don’t have home, but when reached Kashmir felt like home,” Rahul Gandhi said. He concluded his yatra in Srinagar and made a speech amid a snowfall. Later he spent many days in Gulmarg to cool his heels. “Yatra was to make people of all castes and age groups feel at home. People were not talking about political things to me during yatra but it all changed when I reached Kashmir (sic).”

    Gandhi’s Kashmir links apart, the grand old party is not interested in reinstating Article 370 or retaining encouraging Ladakh to rejoin Jammu and Kashmir. It wants early restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and protect Ladakh culture by the extension of the Sixth Schedule.

    “The people of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh have always stood by the country and its sovereignty. Congress reaffirms that the whole of Jammu & Kashmir is part of India. Owing to the drastic steps taken in August 2019, the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir has been bifurcated summarily,” the draft resolution read. “Congress will strive to restore complete statehood for the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, and bring Ladakh and its people under the protection of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India.”

    Gandhi in Srinagar had also asserted that his party would want early elections in Jammu and Kashmir and restoration of the statehood. He avoided Article 370.

    Interestingly, Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on the floor of the house on the day he read down the special status of Jammu and Kashmir that statehood will be restored and elections will be held. However, he offered no deadline for either of the two commitments.

    Congress’s silence on the special status of Jammu and Kashmir indicated that the party will avoid raking an issue that will cost it in elections. A section within Congress is not opposed to the August 5, 201decision-makingng though they insist the way it was done could have been avoided.

    [ad_2]
    #Congress #Silent #Art #Early #Statehood #6th #Schedule #Ladakh

    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • IAF airlifts 388 stranded passengers from Jammu to Ladakh

    IAF airlifts 388 stranded passengers from Jammu to Ladakh

    [ad_1]

    IAF evacuates 210 more Indians who had fled from war-torn Ukraine

    Jammu: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Sunday airlifted 388 stranded passengers from Jammu to the Union Territory of Ladakh, a defence spokesman said.

    The IAF provided the facility of IL-76 aircraft which airlifted 388 citizens of Ladakh from Jammu to Leh, the spokesman said.

    He said two IL-76 aircrafts landed at the Air Force Station Jammu and airlifted the stranded passengers under “operation Sadbhavana” (goodwill).

    Subscribe us on The Siasat Daily - Google News

    [ad_2]
    #IAF #airlifts #stranded #passengers #Jammu #Ladakh

    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Eastern Ladakh row: India, China discuss proposal for disengagement in remaining friction points

    Eastern Ladakh row: India, China discuss proposal for disengagement in remaining friction points

    [ad_1]

    New Delhi: India and China on Wednesday held diplomatic talks in Beijing and discussed proposals for disengagement in the remaining friction points along the LAC in eastern Ladakh in an “open and constructive manner”, but there was no indication of any breakthrough.

    During the meeting held under the WMCC framework, the two sides agreed to hold the 18th round of military talks at an early date to achieve the objective in accordance with the existing bilateral agreements and protocols, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.

    The Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) was established in 2012 as an institutional mechanism for consultation and coordination for the maintenance of peace and tranquillity in the border areas.

    “The two sides reviewed the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Western Sector of India-China border areas and discussed proposals for disengagement in the remaining areas in an open and constructive manner, which would help in the restoration of peace and tranquillity along the LAC in Western Sector and create conditions for the restoration of normalcy in bilateral relations,” the MEA said.

    “To achieve this objective in accordance with the existing bilateral agreements and protocols, they agreed to hold the next (18th) round of the Senior Commanders meeting at an early date,” it said in a statement.

    The MEA said the two sides agreed to continue discussions through military and diplomatic channels.

    “The 26th meeting of the WMCC was held on 22 February 2023 in person in Beijing. This was the first WMCC meeting since the 14th meeting held in July 2019, to be held in person,” it said.

    The Joint Secretary (East Asia) from the Ministry of External Affairs led the Indian delegation. The Chinese delegation was led by the Director General of the Boundary and Oceanic Affairs Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    The 17th round of military talks was held on December 20 but there was no indication of any forward movement in the resolution of the remaining issues.

    A joint statement released after the talks had said that both sides exchanged views in an “open and constructive” manner to resolve the “relevant issues” and described the talks as “frank and in-depth”.

    The WMCC meeting in Beijing came a week before the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Delhi. Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang is expected to attend the meeting on March 1 and 2.

    In line with a decision taken at the 16th round of military talks, the two sides carried out disengagement from Patrolling Point 15 in the Gogra-Hotsprings area in September last year.

    India has been maintaining that its ties with China cannot be normal unless there is peace in the border areas. The eastern Ladakh border standoff erupted on May 5, 2020, following a violent clash in the Pangong lake area.

    The ties between the two countries nosedived significantly following the fierce clash in the Galwan Valley in June 2020 that marked the most serious military conflict between the two sides in decades.

    As a result of a series of military and diplomatic talks, the two sides completed the disengagement process in 2021 on the north and south banks of the Pangong lake and in the Gogra area.

    [ad_2]
    #Eastern #Ladakh #row #India #China #discuss #proposal #disengagement #remaining #friction #points

    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • BD Mishra To Take Oath As LG Ladakh Tomorrow

    [ad_1]

    SRINAGAR: Brigadier (Dr.) B D Mishra (Retired) will take oath as the new Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh on Sunday, officials said.

    He will be sworn in as the second LG of the Himalayan region, at Sindhu Sanskriti Kendra, Leh. He will replace R K Mathur, who held the prestigious office since 2019 when Ladakh became the union territory.

    As per the news agency KNO, the 83-year-old Mishra is a former brigadier of the Indian Army and the former Commander of the Counter Hijack Force of the National Security Guard (NSG), popularly known as the Black Cat Commandos.

    Brig. (Dr.) B.D. Mishra (Retd.) was born on July 20, 1939, in Uttar Pradesh. He was commissioned in Infantry, the Madras Regiment, on December 17, 1961. He retired after an illustrious army career spreading over 33 years and 7 months, in the National Security Guard (NSG) on July 31, 1995. He served in all three major wars – in 1962 Sino-Indian War, the 1965 Indo-Pak War, and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. He operated in the insurgency area from 1963 to 1964 and commanded an Infantry Battalion on the Line of Control in Poonch Sector from 1979-81.

    Brigadier Mishra commanded an Infantry Brigade as a part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka and fought against the LTTE during the most intense stage of Operation PAWAN on the Jaffna-Palali axis and, after the Jaffna battle, in Vavunia and Trincomalee, from 1987 to 1988.

    On the night of April 24 and 25, 1993, as Counter Hijack Force Commander of the National Security Guard (NSG), he led a surgical strike on an Indian Airlines hijacked aircraft at Raja Sansi Airfield, Amritsar. After the elimination of the hijacker by the commandos, 126 passengers, 9 infants and 6 crew members were safely rescued. He received a Commendation from the Prime Minister of India for this operation. After his retirement, when the Pakistani Army occupied the Kargil defences, he volunteered to join the Kargil War in 1999.

    [ad_2]
    #Mishra #Oath #Ladakh #Tomorrow

    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Online Registration commences for AGNIVEER Recruitment Rally-2023 for UT of J&K and Ladakh

    [ad_1]

    Srinagar, Feb 16 (GNS): Online registration for enrolment to Indian Army as AGNIVEER has commenced from today.

    An announcement in this regard was made by the Indian Army on 15 February and the registration process shall close on 15 March, 2023.

    As per guidelines, all eligible unmarried male candidates born between 01 October, 2002 to 01 April, 2006 (both dates inclusive) with requisite educational qualifications from UT of J&K belonging to Srinagar, Anantnag, Baramulla, Pulwama, Badgam, Kupwara, Shopian, Ganderbal, Bandipora and Kulgam districts and UT of Ladakh belonging to Leh and Kargil districts.

    The eligible can apply for enrolment under categories of Agniveer General Duty, Agniveer Technical, Agniveer Clerk/Store Keeper Technical and Agniveer Tradesmen.

    The recruitment rally by Army Recruiting Office, Srinagar is tentatively scheduled to be conducted in June 2023 at Anantnag High Ground, South Kashmir, UT of J & K.

    Candidates are advised to register online at website www.joinindianarmy.nic.in at the earliest.

    Indian Army further amplified that this would be the first recruitment under the new procedure introduced with the written examination being scheduled before the physical and medical test.

    Army Recruiting Office, Srinagar has advised that recruitment is a free service and selection is fair and purely based on merit.  No money is required to be paid to anyone.

    Meanwhile, details in this regard can be obtained on Email ID- arosrinagar123@gmail.com and Landline Nos 0194-2311282 and 0194-2310164. Additional information has been made available as videos in Urdu and can be accessed by scanning the barcode in the notice published by ARO Srinagar.(GNS)

    [ad_2]
    #Online #Registration #commences #AGNIVEER #Recruitment #Rally2023 #Ladakh

    ( With inputs from : thegnskashmir.com )

  • Online Registration Starts For Agniveer Recruitment In J&K, Ladakh

    [ad_1]

    SRINAGAR: The Army on Thursday started online registration for recruitment under the Agniveer scheme in J&K and Ladakh which will continue till March 15.

    “All eligible unmarried male candidates born between 01 Oct 2002 to 01 Apr 2006 (both dates inclusive) with requisite educational qualifications from UT of J&K belonging to Srinagar, Anantnag, Baramulla, Pulwama, Badgam, Kupwara, Shopian, Ganderbal, Bandipora and Kulgam districts and UT of Ladakh belonging to Leh and Kargil districts can apply for enrolment under categories of Agniveer General Duty, Agniveer Technical, Agniveer Clerk/Store Keeper Technical and Agniveer Tradesmen,” the Army said in a statement.

    The recruitment rally by Army Recruiting Office, Srinagar is tentatively scheduled to be conducted in June 2023 at Anantnag High Ground, South Kashmir, UT of J&K.

    “Candidates are advised to register online at website www.joinindianarmy.nic.in at the earliest. Indian Army further amplified that this would be the first recruitment under the new procedure introduced with the written examination being scheduled before the physical and medical test,” the Army statement said.

    “Army Recruiting Office, Srinagar has advised that recruitment is a free service and selection is fair and purely based on merit. No money is required to be paid to anyone. Details can be obtained on Email ID – [email protected] and Landline Nos 0194-2311282 and 0194-2310164. Additional information has been made available as videos in Urdu and can be accessed by scanning the barcode in the notice published by ARO Srinagar.”

    [ad_2]
    #Online #Registration #Starts #Agniveer #Recruitment #Ladakh

    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )