Official Links:

Kargil District Official Website
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Kargil
Leh District Official Website
Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh
Jammu and Kashmir Government

NGOs working in Ladakh:

Annotated List of NGOs for Leh District
SECMOL: Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh
LEDeG: Ladakh Ecological Development Group
Health Inc: Health Environment and Literacy in the Himalayas
Child Welfare Society of Ladakh
Mahabodhi International Meditation Center
Druk White Lotus School
Achi Association
Yuthog Foundation
Ladakh Institute of Prevention
Doctor’s Association for Trans Singe La Area
Ladakh Hilfe—Working with Disabilities
Nomad RSI
Ladakh Environment and Health Organization
Ladakh Nuns Association
Kargil Development Project
Gaden Relief-Zangskar Project
Jamyang Foundation
Jamyang Ling School Project in Reru
Australian Himalayan Foundation (working on infant mortality)
Friends of Lingshed
Lamdon School in Zangskar
Zanskar-Hilfe
Association Rigzen Zangskar
Snow Leopard Conservancy
HELP (Himalayan Education Lifeline Programme)
Tibet Heritage Fund working to preserve architectural heritage in Ladakh since 2003, their activity includes the Leh Old Town conservation project.


News Sources for Ladakh:
REACH Ladakh - a comprehensive one-stop information hub providing current news and tourist information on Ladakh.
Kashmir Times
Daily Excelsior
Ladakh Times
Kashmir News Wire
Scoop News


Links to Himalayan Studies:

Flora Himalaya Database a database concerning the flora of the Himalayas, from Eastern Afghanistan to Northern Myanmar, covering 2 000 000 km2.
Himalaya, published by the ANHS
ICIMOD maps/books online
Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
Tibet Heritage Fund Details of the Fund's Ladakh Project, including Leh old town conservation, Leh rock carvings and Alchi Tsatsapuri.
Men Tsee Khang in Dharmsala
Pasang Yonten’s Tibetan Medicine Site
Tibet and Himlayan Digital Library
Ippolito Desideri Online resource dedicated to the scholar and missionary.
Community homepage for collections of the Warburg Institute Permanent archive for digital scholarly and research materials, catalogued according to region and cover subjects of historical, religious and/or cultural importance in Kinnaur, Spiti, Lahaul and Ladakh.
University of Vienna Research programme on “The Cultural History of the Western Himalayas from the 10th to the 14th Century”. This interdisciplinary research unit combines Art History with Tibetology, Buddhist Studies, Architecture, Linguistics & Cultural Anthropology.
University of Heidelberg Research project on Rock Inscriptions and Carvings along the Karakoram Highway.


Other Sites of Interest:

The Himalayan Documentray Foundation A series of initiatives using film to document traditional Ladakhi life and responses to the changing environment.
Zangskar Internet resources
Ladakh on Wikipedia
Kargil on Wikipedia
Zangskar on Wikipedia
trekzanskar.org