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NEW DELHI: The India-China relationship is facing difficulties due to the situation in Ladakh sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) but neither side wants war or confrontation in the border areas, China’s chargé d’affaires Ma Jia said on Wednesday. China’s chargé d’affaires Ma Jia sought to play ...

WASHINGTON: Relations between India and China "will remain strained" in the wake of the countries’ lethal clash in 2020, with "elevated risk of armed confrontation... that might involve direct threats to American persons and interests," calling for US intervention, an annual US intelligence threat assessment released on Wednesday said.In ...

NEW DELHI: The disengagement of Indian and Chinese troops at Patrolling Point (PP)-15 in the Ladakh sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) has resulted in “one problem less at the border”, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday. Jaishankar’s remarks, made at a joint media interaction ...

The bridge being constructed by Beijing on the Pangong Tso lake is in an area under the illegal occupation of China since the 1960s, India’s foreign ministry said on Friday.“We have never accepted such illegal occupation of our territory, nor have we accepted the unjustified Chinese claim or such ...

Significant investments have been made in recent years to improve infrastructure along the border with ChinaNEW DELHI: Noting that the possibility of any kind of conflict cannot be ruled out in the current uncertain environment, defence minister Rajnath Singh stressed the need to further develop border infrastructure while dedicating ...

A look at the headlines right now:Night-long tunnel operation under way to rescue 39 trapped inside after Uttarakhand glacier disaster: The Uttarakhand chief minister, who reached the site to review the rescue operation, said that a comprehensive analysis of the whole episode was being done. Meanwhile, experts said flash ...

India is determined to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of “unilateralism and aggression”, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, amid the border standoff with China in eastern Ladakh. Speaking at a virtual ceremony on the occasion of Diamond Jubilee of the National Defence College, ...

During talks India asserted the immediate need to maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas — Chushul, Depsang and Pangong Tso, among others. (Photo source: Twitter/SJaishankar)Refuting allegations of the Chinese that the Indian Army has transgressed the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India has demanded the restoration of ...

An aggressive and arrogant China will do well to understand that military coercion is not going to pay dividends with India.By Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd)The preemptive occupation of operationally dominant heights on the South Bank of Pangong Tso by Indian troops on 29/30 August not only prevented Chinese ...

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) carried out “provocative military movements” on the southern bank of Pangong Tso on the night of August 29/30 to change the status quo in the area, the Indian Army said in a statement on Monday. The army said it pre-empted the Chinese move. ...