Less snowfall paves way for early opening of Ladakh lifeline Less snowfall has turned out to be a blessing in disguise for the arid Ladakh region this year as the strategic 434-km Srinagar-Kargil-Leh highway, the lifeline of the country’s cold desert, is likely to be opened to traffic by March 25, almost one and a half months earlier than its opening last year. The highway usually remains closed for more than five months from December to first week of May due to accumulation of heavy snow at Zojila — the…
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