Situation along LAC tense with full army deployment

Situation along LAC tense with full army deployment

The situation continues to remain tense along the 3,488km-long Line of Actual Control, with both the Indian and Chinese armies fully deployed, air bases activated, and the navy on standby, following the June 15 face-off in the Galwan sector. Though the situation has not escalated since the Galwan incident, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) […]

Army Changes Rules Of Engagement Along LAC To Allow Use Of Firearms In ‘Extraordinary’ Circumstances

Army Changes Rules Of Engagement Along LAC To Allow Use Of Firearms In ‘Extraordinary’ Circumstances

Indian Army on Sunday changed the rules of engagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, empowering field commanders to use firearms under “extraordinary” circumstances. Earlier on Sunday, following a high-level meeting headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the army had been given “full freedom” in giving “befitting” reply to any Chinese aggressive […]

Galwan faceoff | Congress on Modi statement clarification: ‘Lame attempt to obfuscate the truth’

Galwan faceoff | Congress on Modi statement clarification: ‘Lame attempt to obfuscate the truth’

Hours after the Prime Minister’s Office issued a clarification regarding Narendra Modi’s concluding remarks at the all-party meeting on the border issue with China, the Congress stated that the PMO’s statement was “clearly a lame attempt to obfuscate the truth”. In its rejoinder to the PMO statement, the Congress posed several questions before the government, asking to state […]

MEA rebuts Beijing’s claim of sovereignty over Galwan Valley, calls it ‘untenable’

MEA rebuts Beijing’s claim of sovereignty over Galwan Valley, calls it ‘untenable’

 Rejecting China’s claim of sovereignty over the Galwan Valley, the site in Ladakh where the violent showdown took place, the Ministry of External Affairs issued a strong rebuttal and stated that attempts by Beijing to now advance “exaggerated and untenable claims” with regard to Line of Actual Control there are not acceptable. “The position with regard […]