{
  "id": 18247407,
  "title": "'Close Schools & Open Liquor Bars': Sonam Wangchuk Slams Ladakh Administration Over Notice Directing HIAL To Halt Activities At Desert Flower School",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/close-schools-open-liquor-bars-sonam-wangchuk-slams-ladakh",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-05T04:17:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/education/close-schools-open-liquor-bars-sonam-wangchuk-slams-ladakh-administration-over-notice-directing-hial-to-halt-activities-at-desert-flower-school"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Leh: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Wednesday criticised the Ladakh administration over its notice asking the Himalayan Institute of Alternative Learning (HIAL) not to undertake any further activities at Desert Flower School in Phyang until the matter is decided by the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. In a post on X, Wangchuk described the notice as a \"shahi farmaan\" and wrote,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}