Tag: Srinagar Leh Highway

Srinagar: The 434 km-long Srinagar-Leh highway was on Sunday re-opened for traffic after remaining closed for over four months. Lieutenant General K.J.S. Dhillon, Commander of the Srinagar-headquartered 15 Corps of the Army, flagged off the re-opening of the highway in the presence of senior civil and Border Roads Organisation (BRO) officials. The highway connects the state’s […]

New Delhi: “Hum LoC cross nahi karenge (we will not cross the LoC),” was the firm diktat by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Chief of Air Staff A.Y. Tipnis during the Kargil conflict in 1999. Recalling the events that led to India using air power to drive out Pakistani army intruders who […]