New Delhi: India and China are holding diplomatic talks through video conference on Wednesday to explore ways to ease tension along the Line of Actual Control in the Ladakh region, officials said. The talks are scheduled to be held between Joint Secretary (East Asia) in the Ministry of External Affairs Naveen Srivastava and Director General in […]
New Delhi, 24: Indian and Chinese troops, along with contingents from other countries, participated in the Victory Day military parade in the Russian capital of Moscow on Wednesday. Defence Minister Raj Nath Singh attended the event, the 75th anniversary of the Victory Day celebration to mark the end of Second World War, along with his […]
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 […]
While a “mutual consensus to disengage” from “all friction areas” along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) was reached during a meeting between Indian and Chinese commanders on Monday, it is the restoration of status quo ante in the Finger Area on the north bank of Ladakh’s Pangong Tso lake that will determine the success […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday said the government had decided to reduce staff strength in the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi by 50 per cent. The decision, which is to be implemented in 7 days, was conveyed to Pakistan’s Acting High Commissioner Syed Haider Shah. “The Government of India has taken the […]
Massive road development projects in the Tibet Autonomous Region have led to rivers changing their course and expanding China’s boundary into northern territories of Nepal, a document by Nepal’s agriculture department has warned. The document, accessed by Hindustan Times, said patches of Nepalese territory in several districts had already been encroached by China and cautioned that Beijing […]
(Agencies) New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s tweet today questioning the government on Chinese aggression came with a photo taken by his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi of the Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh. “We stand united against Chinese aggression. Has China occupied Indian territory?” Rahul Gandhi tweeted in Hindi with the photo, […]
New Delhi: The government has decided that Muslims from India will not travel to Saudi Arabia for Haj 2020 after the kingdom conveyed that pilgrims should not be sent this year in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday. The decision was taken after Saudi Arabia’s Haj and […]