In the second episode of the fortnightly interview series, Ru-Ba-Ru, Voice of Ladakh interviewed the CEO rZamba Trust Stanzin Saldon alias Shifa. The interview discussed on a wide range of issues including Saldon’s success story, rZamba intervention in the education sector, loopholes in the education sector, women empowerment, and other relevant issues. The full interview is enumerated below:
Voice of Ladakh (VOL): Kindly introduce yourself to our readers.
Stanzin Saldon (SS): First of...
On the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, Kargil observed complete shutdown, which were to continue for four days but was called off later. The four-day complete shutdown was announced by All Transport Association Kargil over UT administration’s perpetual negligence of their demand for ‘One UT, one permit’. The cab operators claimed that their vehicles were being challaned and even seized as their permits have expired and not renewed by the Administration. The cab operators of Kargil see it as a bi...
Doctor, a sincere doctor, a responsible doctor, a doctor loyal to his pledge to be a doctor who serves 24×7 for the public. In a district like Kargil where doctors are short, a doctor hardly manages to take complete sleep, hardly take a relaxed meal, and hardly spends a good time with family. Thus, they don’t need anyone else to add to their stress.
The doctors at the district hospital Kargil complained of inhumane and misbehavior from a section of the public. Starting from entering the d...
Er. Ahmad Ali from Kanoor who left a job offer as Assistant Professor to become a farmer is changing the lives of farmers in Ladakh. Adopting new techniques in Agriculture like drip irrigation, mulching, and hydroponics, Ahmad Ali is infusing hope among farmers to boost farming activities even in areas with scarcity of irrigation water.
Speaking to the Voice of Ladakh correspondent, Er Ahmad Ali emphasized farmers to form clusters and adopt new techniques and embrace the latest technology...
Apricot, the appealing product of district Kargil made headlines in media many times since formation of the Union Territory of Ladakh. Last year, the product which was banned to export beyond Zojila pass found market in metro cities like Mumbai and international markets like Dubai. However, the current year drought reportedly reduced the quantity of its production and the boom it gained last year also seems to have declined.
The apricot also made news when the Union territory Administrati...
Countries across the globe are concerned about the rapidly changing global warming and climate change. But the people in Ladakh, who are residing in the Trans Himalayan cold desert, are paying the price for a sin that is not done by them but by others residing in a pleasant climate.
This year Ladakh faced the wrath of climate change in the shape of fewer snowfall, fewer rainfall, cloud burst, floods, hot weather, and drought, and even in the month of September the weather is not normal bu...
As per the Rule, 13 and 14 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Rules, 2005, the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir government distributed the MBBS seats among various categories where two percent each of the total seats were reserved for residents of Leh and Kargil.
On the same pattern, after the bifurcation of the State, the J&K Govt in 2020 announced reservation of four percent seats in its engineering and medical colleges for Students hailing from Ladakh as the latter had no separat...
Sheikh Sadiq Rajai from Kargil participated in the Seventh General Assembly of Ahlulbait at Tehran, Iran representing Kargil. He was among the three person from India who were invited in the conference. The other two were Syed Jalal Naqvi and Syed Mohsin Taqvi from Delhi. On his arrival in Kargil people gave him a warm welcome and Syed Kazim Sabri congratulated him during the Friday sermon. Voice of Ladakh conducted an interview with Sheikh which is enumerated as below.
VOL: What is the G...
Kargil, Sep. 09: Nawaz Ali from Trespone village of Kargil has topped the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2022 Ladakh list with a total score of 631 marks.
At least 704 aspirants from Ladakh had registered for the NEET 2022 out of which 639 had appeared for the exam and 331 have qualified the test. In comparison, 906 had registered, 744 had appeared for exam and 367 had qualified the test in 2021.
In an interview to Voice of Ladakh, Nawaz Ali said that he has been schoole...
VoL Desk, September 03: After several rounds of deliberations between the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA), Ladakh Buddhist Association (LBA) and Ladakh Gonpa Association (LGA), the leaders have agreed on a resolution regarding the Buddhist Gonpa issue here at Kargil today, maintained a resolution issued afer the meeting.
After thorough discussion on the issue it was unanimously resolved that the land alloted in favour of Ladakh Buddhist Association in terms of the J&K Govt order of 1969 ...
