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I am the first one to paddle in Nubra Valley, near Khardung La, says Chennaiite

Edit The Times of India 24 Sep 2016
The successful attempt in Tsoltak Lake gave him confidence to try out paddling in Nubra Valley. It is where the Shyok River meets the Nubra River. He says, "From the valley, I paddled 5km downstream in Shyok River, which originates from the Rimo Glacier, one of the tongues of Siachen Glacier ... The Shyok River is also called the river of death because of treacherous currents ... This is again a first-time attempt by anyone in Shyok River....

Taming of the Shyok: BRO constructs Himank Setu

Edit The Times of India 18 Jul 2016
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) achieved a major milestone in its history by constructing the Bridge Himank Setu across the river Shyok at 150.4 km on road D-S-DBO in Ladakh. Project Himank Setu was conceptualised with the goal of taming the river Shyok. Due to increase in the flow of Shyok river during summers and its unpredictable meandering, ......

India ramps up its military presence in Eastern Ladakh

Edit The Hindu 17 Jul 2016
Bunkers drilled into barren hills, battle tanks at over 14,000 feet, and additional troops on newly built roads. India’s quiet efforts at beefing up military capabilities to match China’s wide-ranging transformation across the border are finally becoming a reality ... “We have to defend our borders ... Gen. S.K ... Longer stints for troops ... Work on the 255 km Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi road is progressing at a quick pace....

About 7,092 villages to be electrified during this financial year

Edit Dawn 08 Jun 2016
ISLAMABAD ... Related. 22 wind power projects in pipeline ... Similarly, 2,880MW nuclear power projects are at various stages of construction. Related ... These are 7,100MW Bunji Hydropower Project, 310MW Refurbishment and up-gradation of Mangla Generation Unit 1-6, 1,100 MW Kohala, 690 MW Shyok Dam, 665 MW Lower Plas Valley, 496 MW Lower Spat Gah, 40MW Basho, 2,300MW Pattan, 4000MW Thakot, 2,100MW Dasu Stage-II, 48MW Jagran, and 26MW Shagarthang....

Coming round the mountain

Edit The Hindu 13 Mar 2016
Our drive officially started from Chandigarh, even though three members from our group had driven down from Bangalore three-and-a-half days back ... On Day One, we hit the road by 5.30 in the morning ... Nubra valley lies around River Shyok, and its tributary Nubra, which flows into PoK ... There is a road from Nubra valley to Pangong Tso area, through Agham and Shyok, but we were advised against it ... Keywords....

Chenab Rafting Championship to begin from March 12 in JK

Edit The Times of India 09 Mar 2016
Jammu. A three-day long Chenab Challenge - River Rafting Championship-2016 will begin from March 10 in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, which also features international rafters Naik Balwinder Singh and Havildar Yogesh KN ... Naik Singh has won many accolades in White Water Rafting, which also includes participation in Indian Cup, Indo-Bangladesh Shyok River Rafting expedition ... ....

Earthly matters: Conserving water

Edit Dawn 06 Mar 2016
Indus river route -Photo courtesy Al Jazeera ... The Shyok, Shigar and Gilgit rivers carry glacial waters into the main river, which then flows to the south, emerging from the hills between Peshawar and Rawalpindi and then going further down to the plains of the Punjab and Sindh and out to the Indus Delta and the Arabian Sea. Much of the river runs through Pakistan and according to the Indus Water Treaty, we have access to its water ... ....

Khardungla Top

Edit Yahoo Daily News 23 Feb 2016
... motorable road in the world and is the gateway to the Shyok and Nubra valley in Ladakh....

Siachen: Here's why Indian soldiers fight and continue to die in the world's most unforgiving battlefield

Edit The Times of India 14 Feb 2016
By Nalin Mehta. Few individual military stories have galvanized India as the heroic battle fought by Lance Naik Hanumanthappa and his comrades against terrifying odds at Siachen recently. Their story has once again focused attention on what has long been a "forgotten war" in our public consciousness ... A trekker and 'oropolitics' ... Two bald men fighting over a comb? ... It is also important for monitoring the Nubra and Shyok valleys....

Siachen: Calls for retreat undermine strategic relevance

Edit Deccan Herald 10 Feb 2016
With the ceding of the Shaksgam Valley to China in 1963, the construction of the Karakoram highway close to the Glacier and now the start of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, wherein Chinese personnel would be positioned, Siachen is imbued with vital strategic relevance to the security of the Nubra and Shyok Valleys as also Ladakh ... = ....

A peaceful way out on Siachen

Edit The Hindu 10 Feb 2016
While responding to the tragedy, he stated ... Dimensions of the deadlock ... The agreement, which established the ceasefire line, the positions of the two militaries at the end of the 1947-1948 war, did not delineate beyond grid reference NJ 9842, which falls south of the Siachen glacier, to the Chinese border but left it as “Chalunka (on the Shyok River), Khor, thence North to the glaciers” ... Myth of strategic advantage ... Lt. Gen....

Soldier rescued from Siachen on life support, next 24-48 hours very crucial

Edit The Times of India 09 Feb 2016
NEW DELHI. Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad's condition is extremely critical. The next 24-48 hours are going to be crucial, Army doctors have said ... At 9am on Tuesday, he was winched up by a helicopter and fl own to Thoise, a military airfield in J&K;'s Shyok Valley, before a C-130J "Super Hercules" aircraft shifted him to New Delhi. He has been put on ventilator support in the ICU at the Army (Research and Referral) hospital in New Delhi....

Stairway to heaven

Edit Deccan Herald 01 Oct 2015
It was our fourth day in Leh and our vacation was going well ... We were excited and full of trepidation ... We experienced this at the foothills of the Shyok Valley where we stopped at a roadside restaurant and treated ourselves to a bowl of piping hot noodle soup and a comforting cup of tea ... We went through the many mountains in Shyok Valley and long-winding roads snaked through the mountains as the climb became steeper and higher ... ....
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