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WASHINGTON: Reiterating that the United States supports a resolution of the Indo-China border dispute through a negotiated settlement and direct conversations between the two countries, Biden Administration's point person for South and Central Asia on Thursday said the US sees little evidence that Beijing is seriously approaching these talks ...

NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday approved the construction of the strategically-crucial 4.1-km tunnel under the forbidding Shinkun La, on the border between Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, for ‘alternate’ all-weather connectivity to Ladakh amid the continuing 33-month-long military confrontation with China.The traffic movement in the twin-tube tunnel, which will ...

Congress leader Manishankar Aiyar attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government by saying that India has become a slave of the United States of America since 2014. He was speaking during an Indo-Russia friendship society on Tuesday."In the last seven years, we've seen that there is no talk ...

“Like Galsang flowers”, Chinese President Xi Jinping said about the sisters Zhoigar and Yangzom, children of one of the nine families of Tibetan herders who make up the village of Yümai. For two generations, Xi wrote, the families had put down roots in the brutal mountains along China’s border ...

Paradigm shift in security architecture and a repeat of 26/11 nearly impossible, says Defence Minister The government has given a free hand to the armed forces to strongly oppose any change on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and this is what the Army did at Galwan where soldiers ...

Taiwan is celebrating India, and making an effort to win the hearts of the Indian community. This was manifested in Taiwan’s ministry of foreign affairs’ first-ever public celebration of Diwali at the Taipei Guest House on November 13. This was in response to the appreciation Taiwan has got from ...

Reinforcements of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) posts, relocation of troops, and rapid strengthening of road infrastructure across the friction points in occupied Aksai Chin over the past 30 days – all clearly indicate that China is preparing for a long haul along the 3,488km Line of Actual Control (LAC), ...

In a stern message for Pakistan and China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi who in his address virtually, said that all the member countries should respect each others’ territorial integrity. (Photo source: ANI)Amidst the ongoing standoff between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, ...

More than a month after Pakistan first unveiled plans to annex the Gilgit-Baltistan region – its only land link to China and located in disputed Kashmir – and grant its residents full citizenship rights, an ominous silence hangs over the isolated mountainous region. Instead of celebrations, almost all the ...

General Rawat also said the situation along the border with China remains tense.New Delhi: Border confrontations and unprovoked military actions spiraling into a larger conflict can't be discounted, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said today, according to news agency PTI, amid Chinese aggression in Ladakh. General Rawat ...