the Indian Army and China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley, top military officials from the two sides held a marathon meeting on Monday at Moldo on the Chinese side of the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC) with a focus on cooling tensions and thinning military build-up on both sides of […]
A day after his meeting with the military brass on the situation along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reached Moscow Monday night to start a three-day visit. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, meanwhile, will be participating in a virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia, India and China (RIC) Tuesday. This will be Jaishankar’s first […]
Rigzin Spalbar saw it coming. “The Chinese army clashed with our soldiers on May 5. They had all kinds of weapons—iron rods, barbed wires and knives. Why did we go unarmed this time?” asks the former chairman of the Ladakh Hill Development Council. “What you saw on the border, we have been warning about for […]
Corps Commanders of the Indian and Chinese armies met Monday for the first time after the Galwan Valley incident in which 20 Indian Army personnel were killed in violent clashes with Chinese troops. XIV Corps Commander Lt General Harinder Singh and South Xinjiang Military District Commander Major General Liu Lin met at Moldo on the Chinese side […]
New Delhi: The Congress hit back at the BJP on Monday for its attack on former prime minister Manmohan Singh and asked the saffron party not to compromise on national security and the country’s territorial integrity, saying it would be the “biggest disservice” to the armed forces. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Singh has given an […]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will join his Chinese and Russian counterparts at a virtual conference of the Russia-India-China trilateral on Tuesday, against the backdrop of New Delhi’s frayed ties with Beijing over the Galwan Valley clashes. As the June 15 incident triggered fears of fresh confrontation between troops of India and China, Russia […]
New Delhi: As the commander of the Indian Army’s 14 Corps meets his Chinese counterpart at Moldo across the Line of Actual Control, the top leadership of the Army has convened in New Delhi for the Army Commanders’ Conference, where the main point of discussion will be the India-China tensions, which have worsened since the killing of 20 […]
Days after Nepal approved new-map, which includes territories that India also claims, Kathmandu has stopped all repair work of river embankments in Bihar on the India-Nepal border. Nepal has erected barriers and effectively put a stop to work done by India to prevent flooding of its low-lying areas, the Bihar government has alleged, reported a […]
The Galwan clashes, where 20 Indian Army personnel were killed, was one of the biggest confrontations between the Indian and Chinese military along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the last 45 years. Even though this unprecedented and dangerous turn of events in the border region have set the lines working in the two capitals, an […]
(Agencies) NEW DELHI: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the interest of the country, should accept the advice of former Prime Minister Manomhan Singh who said disinformation on the Chinese transgression will be a betrayal to the sacrifice made by the Indian soldiers. Rahul Gandhi on Monday also […]