The recent protests in Ladakh, which turned violent on Wednesday (September 24), have been driven by demands for inclusion under the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution and a call for statehood.

Leh: The Union Territory of Ladakh has been witnessing protests over demands for statehood by a section of young people led by the Leh Apex Body (LAB). The agitators, apart from the statehood demand, ...

Ladakh's major political groups, LAB and KDA, were informed by the Centre that neither Sixth Schedule status nor statehood will be granted. Instead, a 'territorial council' model was proposed, which ...

JAMMU: A high-powered Union home ministry panel has questioned Ladakh’s top political groupings on whether inclusion under the Constitution’s Sixth Schedule would offer sufficient safeguards, ...

SRINAGAR: The Ministry of Home Affairs would be holding talks with the leaders of Ladakh Union Territory later this month with Ladakh leaders hopeful that the talks would focus on their core demand of ...

The Ladakh leadership will meet the Centre’s High-Powered Committee (HPC) in New Delhi on Wednesday, with key demands such as statehood for the Union Territory, inclusion under the Sixth Schedule, and ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs has convened a meeting of the High Powered Committee on Ladakh, which will be chaired by Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai. SRINAGAR: More than two months ...

The loss of their grazing lands to Chinese incursions and Indian corporations has prompted Ladakhis to oppose the BJP government’s top-down governance model.