The families of the two soldiers said they were told that the two men were part of a team involved in “constructing a bridge” in the area. Two soldiers, Naik Sachin Vikram More (37) from Malegaon and Lance Naik Saleem Khan (23) from Patiala, died after drowning in a river in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley area. […]
India recorded another biggest single-day jump in the cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) with more than 19,900 infections recorded in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 528,859, Union health ministry data showed on Saturday. According to the health ministry’s dashboard, there were 19,906 Covid-19 cases between Saturday and Sunday morning and 410 patients […]
A many-layered, dynamic riddle can have no single, simple, or permanent answer. India is at this moment presented with a set of fluid questions embedded within more fluid questions, rather like a perverse Russian doll—or shall we say, a Chinese doll? And geopolitics is not a lab science where one can isolate one strand and […]
In what can be seen as the government putting its foot down, Prasar Bharti, India’s public broadcaster, is sending a letter threatening to end its “relationship” over the alleged “anti-national” reportage by news agency Press Trust of India or PTI. This comes soon after the PTI carried an interview with Chinese ambassador Sun Weidong, where […]
The Congress on Saturday stepped up its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the standoff with China in Ladakh as it underscored the various statements on the status on the ground along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). “The Prime Minister should openly, publicly condemn the brazen Chinese occupation in Ladakh. I want the […]
India’s COVID-19 tally crossed 5 lakh on Saturday with record single-day surge of 18,552 cases, according to data from the Health Ministry. The COVID-19 caseload zoomed to 5,08,953 while the death toll rose to 15,685 with 384 new fatalities being reported in the last 24 hours. India currently has 1,97,387 active cases of Covid-19. So far, 2,95,880 […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday kept up with his attack on the government over the border standoff with China in Galwan Valley of eastern Ladakh earlier this month and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak up about the violence. The Congress party, led by its former president Rahul Gandhi, has been taking jibes at the […]
The cancellation of remaining Central Board of School Education (CBSE) Class 12 exams and the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry’s decision to ask the University Grants Commission (UGC) to have a relook at its academic calendar have implications on the two major competitive examinations scheduled for next month–the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) […]
The old mechanism of maintaining peace and tranquillity along the India-China border has broken down. The latest blood-letting in the Galwan Valley, which ironically took place while the disengagement process was on, is a stark reminder that the old methods can no longer work. Five bilateral agreements signed between India and China in 1993, 1996, […]
A day after Indian and Chinese diplomats agreed to “sincerely implement the understanding on disengagement and de-escalation” along the Line of Actual Control, New Delhi drew the red line Thursday, saying “continuation of the current situation would only vitiate the atmosphere for the development of the relationship” between the two countries. Amid reports of satellite images showing Chinese structures […]