The government's plan to setup a 7,500-MW solar photo-voltaic power plant at an estimated cost of Rs.45,000-crore in Ladakh, currently the largest investment proposal for the newlycarved Union Territory, may be shifted to a new location over wildlife concerns. The project's blueprint prepared by SECI envisages a 5,000-MW plant in Hanle-Khaldo village in Nyoma block, a strategically important area 254-km from district HQ Leh.

The centre maintains that rapid development and increased private-investments are some of the benefits that mountainous Ladakh - one of the two newest-union-territories of India would get from its recent historic move on J-K. Now, one of the biggest firms in India that has interests in sectors from petroleum to groceries has revealed its plans for the Union-Territory that is already famous among tourists.

Former Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is likely to unfurl the tri-colour on the occasion of Independence Day in Leh in the newly-created union territory of Ladakh on August 15. Dhoni, an honorary lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army, is at present stationed in Khrew in the Pulwama district of Jammu & Kashmir, along with members of his Territorial Army battalion.