A 17-month-old standoff between India and China in the Himalayan border region of Ladakh is imperiling the six-century-old Pashmina wool industry, which employs almost three-quarters of a million ...

To strengthen and promote Ladakhi Pashmina and position it as a global brand, Saxena visited the Pashmina Goat Farm at Upshi. The visit underlined the administration’s commitment to establishing ...

Srinagar, Oct 23: Ladakh's world-renowned Pashmina wool is being positioned for wider global markets, with Lieutenant ...

Call it the New Clone Age, but pashmina wool is on the verge of a science-generated comeback in the Kashmir Valley. The successful cloning of pashmina goat, which produces the famous and pricey ...

KORZOK, India: For centuries the Changpa have tended the shaggy goats that provide silky-soft, super-expensive pashmina wool. But now many are rethinking their way of life, in part because of climate ...

Jigmet Paley has a confession to make: He is really tired. The creases on his 35-year-old face are evidence. The limp in his right leg drives the point home. For three decades, he has been waking up ...

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has ...

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There's something eternally special about heirloom pieces. For some it is the timelessness of the weave, for some the depth of its colour which grows deeper with years, while for some it is the ...

A nomad shepherd in the Changtang region of Ladakh in northern India tends to goats that produce pashmina wool -- a livelihood the Changpa people have relied on for centuries AFP / Noemi CASSANELLI ...