Centre ready for elected UT body, Article 371-like safeguards, say Ladakh groups | India News

SRINAGAR: Ladakh groups held Friday an “informal” meeting with Union home ministry (MHA) officials in Leh, described it as positive and declared the two sides had finalised draft minutes of previous talks in Delhi on May 22.According to the finalised minutes, “while statehood will remain the long-term aspiration of Ladakh”, a Union Territory (UT)-level elected…

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A 5,000-year-old ritual circle was hidden under a Scottish island; archaeologists found it without digging

Archaeologists have been excavating the area for ancient secrets since the 1980s Archaeologists have uncovered what could be a 5,000-year-old ritual circle hidden beneath peat on a Scottish island, all without digging into the ground.Using advanced geophysical scanning equipment, researchers from Historic Environment Scotland (HES) detected a ring of buried pits beneath Machrie Moor on…

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