Ladakh’s tourism sector, already reeling from setbacks earlier this season, has been dealt another blow with the curfew in Leh following last week’s violence.

To hear Bill Gates tell it, the electric drivetrains that have transformed the passenger vehicle industry over the past decade have no chance of repeating the trick in heavy trucks.

The political and religious storm surrounding the gold artefacts of the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple escalated sharply, with the Kerala Devaswom minister alleging a “larger conspiracy” behind the six-year disappearance of a Dwarapalaka idol pedestal.