Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping engage in a brief interaction at the 15th BRICS Summit, in Johannesburg on August 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Trump arrested in Georgia racketeering case Former U.S. President Donald Trump was arrested at a Georgia jail on August 24 on racketeering and conspiracy charges for … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the 15th BRICS Summit meeting in Johannesburg on August 24, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI India and China have agreed to step up efforts for the disengagement of troops and de-escalation of tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) after a conversation between Prime … Read more
A bipartisan resolution was introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday to recognise Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India, pushing back against Beijing’s military aggression to change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control. The resolution condemns additional Chinese provocations, including China’s use of military force to change the status quo … Read more
New Delhi: India’s troop withdrawal deal with China is significant in many ways but the standout feature is that unlike in the rest of its neighbourhood, Beijing was unable to achieve its strategic goal of asserting its political and military dominance on New Delhi. Worse, it ended up triggering a challenge to its economic pre-eminence … Read more
NEW DELHI: For the first time since 2012, India and China on Tuesday held consultations on UN Security Council (UNSC) agenda, with New Delhi seeking to build consensus on its UNSC priorities as well as on designating terrorists by the powerful body of the UN. In the first bilateral meet which did not focus on … Read more
NEW DELHI: For the first time since 2012, India and China on Tuesday held consultations on UN Security Council (UNSC) agenda, with New Delhi seeking to build consensus on its UNSC priorities as well as on designating terrorists by the powerful body of the UN. In the first bilateral meet which did not focus on … Read more
Mao Zedong reportedly said that Tibet was China’s ‘right hand palm’ and Ladakh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and the area known today as Arunachal Pradesh the palm’s ‘five fingers’. Mao believed it was the duty of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to ‘liberate’ the territories India had ‘occupied’ — Ladakh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh — as … Read more
China’s irritation over India’s rapid infrastructure development close to the borders has not stopped New Delhi from bolstering its road connectivity. After new roads, at least 10 tunnels running up to 100 km are planned in Ladakh and Kashmir to facilitate smooth movement of military and civilian vehicles all through the year across mountain passes … Read more
New Delhi: India and the United States discussed concluding pacts on technology, people-to-people contact and parliamentary exchanges, besides the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) for geospatial cooperation and aligning positions on security matters during the forthcoming ‘2 plus 2’ talks between the foreign ministers and defence ministers of the two countries in Delhi on … Read more
Amid the ongoing Indo-China dispute, US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said that China has attempted to “seize” control of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India by force as part of its territorial aggression. He further said that time has come to accept that dialogue and agreements will not persuade Beijing to change. … Read more