New Delhi: Gorakhpur-based child specialist Dr Kafeel Khan believes the seven months he spent in jail this year wasn’t for his anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) speech, but for “exposing” the country’s broken health system, and demanding answers on who was responsible for the BRD medical tragedy in 2017, he told ThePrint. Khan’s comment came five days […]
A day after local media reported that five youths from Arunachal Pradesh were “abducted” by the Chinese Army, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said the Indian Army had sent a hotline message to the establishment of People’s Liberation Army and a response was awaited. “The Indian Army has already sent hotline message to the counterpart PLA […]
After the Indian Army called the bluff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on the Rezang La ridgeline on August 29-30, India is prepared for a long haul in Ladakh with clear cut directions to the front-line troops not to yield to any Chinese intimidation. While both the military and diplomatic channels are open between […]
The day after Indian and Chinese Defence Ministers met in Moscow, the highest level in-person meeting between the two sides since the Ladakh standoff began early May, officials in New Delhi indicated they are watching whether General Wei Fenghe has the heft to influence the Beijing top brass on complete disengagement and de-escalation along the Line […]
A doctor’s prescription will no longer be required for people to get a Covid-19 test, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said in its revised testing advisory to states on Saturday, paving the way for walk-in tests. The move comes after a prod by the Delhi high court that asked why people who show […]
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), under commander-in-chief Xi Jinping, defines its Tibet border with Ladakh by a green line that runs over finger 4 relief feature on the north bank of Pangong Tso and nearly claims all the Chushul Valley on the south banks of the salt-water body. This line was defined by the […]
India’s COVID-19 infection tally sprinted past 40 lakh, just 13 days after it crossed 30 lakh, with a record 86,432 cases being reported in a day, while recoveries have surged to 31,07,223 on Saturday pushing the recovery rate to 77.23 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry, reported Press Trust of India. The total […]
The responsibility of current tension along the border lies “entirely with India”, China said hours after Rajnath Singh held a meeting with Chinese Defence Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe in Moscow. Friday’s meeting was the first highest level face-to-face contact between the two sides after the border row erupted in Ladakh in early May. “The cause and truth of […]
Hours after Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla described the situation along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh as “unprecedented” since the 1962 war with China, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe held a meeting Friday night in Moscow to try and resolve the border crisis. Singh and Wei met for 2 hours and 20 minutes on […]
In the midst of heightened tensions in eastern Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is likely to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe on Friday evening in Moscow on the sidelines of a ministerial meet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), government sources said. It will be the first high-level meeting between the two […]