In the wake of the recent killing by Indian security forces of four unarmed protestors and the wounding of 150 other persons in the strategically critical Ladakh region, India’s Hindu-supremacist ...

The Union Territory of Ladakh in the high-altitude northern Indian border region adjacent to Pakistan and China contains the most frozen water outside the Arctic and Antarctica. But Ladakh’s tourism ...

Shortly after a protest to demand statehood for Ladakh turned violent in Leh, activist Sonam Wangchuk called off his fast and said his "message of peaceful path failed". "On the 15th day of our strike ...

When India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died on March 27, 1964, the nation mourned. Among those grieving deeply was his trusted friend and confidant, the 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche-a ...

Sonam Wangchuk’s arrest and broken promises fuel anger in India’s northern frontier Sonam Wangchuk, who is currently detained under the National Security Act, is a Ramon Magsaysay awardee, climate ...

Smoke rises from a police vehicle set on fire by protestors near the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Leh, the capital of Ladakh. | Tsewang Rigzin/AFP More than 50 persons were detained and a curfew ...