Leh Floods

• A year after flash floods, Rancho's school back to life

  A year after it was hit by flash floods, Druk Padma School, popular as Rancho's school after Aamir Khan's character in the film 3 Idiots, has come back to life.

• NGO men held for kidnapping Leh orphans

  Seems like there is no end to distress for the children who lost everything during the Ladakh flash floods. It was just a week ago when an NGO, Youth movement for peace, had claimed it adopted 28 children and would take care of them.  Now, the Police say they were kidnapped by the NGO and brought to Jammu."Five people have been arrested and th...

• Rebuilding lives in Ladakh

  The devastating cloud burst killed more than 200 people and orphaned scores of children in Ladakh. Now, for the first time, a Jammu based NGO, Youth Movement for Peace, has adopted 27 of these orphaned children who will get free education and a place to stay in Jammu."I want to become a doctor, it was my desire to get education, I want to make a ma...

• Was the Leh disaster man-made?

  Once a well planned city, built on traditional principles, Leh today is just a gory reflection of it's past. Established centuries ago by the monks and its rulers, it was expanding fast, or so it appeared, until calamity struck.The symbols of a rapidly expanding Leh, reduced to rubble in just few hours. But was the tragedy a man-made one?All the st...

• Rahul Gandhi visits Leh, meets flood victims

  Reaching out to the victims of cloudburst here, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today promised them all possible help and lauded the security forces for their massive relief and rehabilitation effort.Rahul, who arrived a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's scheduled visit here, took stock of the situation in the worst-affected Choglamsar where ...

• Leh floods: Kalam's model village in ruins

  A model village, at least that's what former President APJ Abdul Kalam had called it in 2003 on a visit to Saboo village, when he saw its modern facilities comparable to any city.Today, Saboo is the epicenter of the devastation, that is Leh now, and those facilities are in ruins. "This village was very beautiful, but now it is been ruined," said Ts...

• Leh flash floods: A father finds his son

  Finally, a father has found his son. Cyrus Surti's son Rohan, who was missing since Friday in Leh called home today and told his parents he was safe. Rohan  said it would take him about a week to get back, as it was impossible to leave Leh right now. Rohan is in India on a holiday from Australia. He was in  Ladakh with his friends. His fa...