Army Chief for more vigil along LAC

Army Chief for more vigil along LAC

Army Chief Gen MM Naravane, who landed in Leh on Tuesday within a couple of hours of the reports that India and China had reached an agreement for the peaceful disengagement on the LAC, started assessment of the standoff situation and the talks from the word go.   General Naravane’s two-day visit is essentially focused […]

Boris Johnson gambles on lifting lockdown to save UK

Boris Johnson gambles on lifting lockdown to save UK

London: Boris Johnson has launched the biggest gamble of his premiership, announcing that July will see a dramatic lifting of the lockdown measures imposed in England in March. The goal is to save the economy. The risk is that it causes a second spike in coronavirus infections. At a news conference on Tuesday evening — the […]

Expanding ambit, ICMR says all symptomatic persons may be tested

Expanding ambit, ICMR says all symptomatic persons may be tested

THE INDIAN Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Tuesday revised its Covid-19 testing strategy to include “all symptomatic individuals in every part of the country”. The strategy, as of May 18, advised testing symptomatic individuals, but restricted it to those in hospitals, containment zones and hotspots, contacts of a confirmed Covid-19 case, healthcare and frontline workers, and those […]

Border talks: No timeline set but India, China look at a roadmap

Border talks: No timeline set but India, China look at a roadmap

Corps Commanders of the Indian and Chinese armies, who held talk for nearly 11 hours Monday, reached “mutual consensus to disengage” with detailed discussions on modalities of sector-wise, stage-wise disengagement on the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. But no timeline for the disengagement process was finalised at the meeting, sources said Tuesday, a day after XIV Corps […]