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NEW DELHI: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi hosted his Bhutan counterpart Tandi Dorji this week as the two countries look to resolve their boundary dispute soon and also, according to Beijing, as they consider establishing diplomatic relations. According to Beijing, Dorji visited China for boundary talks.“India-China relations can’t be normal until…” EAM Jaishankar on border issuesA Chinese...

MAGO: Border posts of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) along the India-China frontier from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh will have an additional team of intelligence officers for surveillance and information gathering.A highly placed source said the central government has approved a proposal for establishing the set-up that will be known as the Border Intelligence Post (BIP). The move bears...

Sep 20, 2023, 07:30AM ISTSource: TOI.inIndia Middle East Europe Economic Corridor: One of the most significant takeaways from the recently concluded G20 Summit was the announcement on the India Middle East Europe Corridor. While the details are being finalized, this ambitious project is being seen as India and the world’s answer to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The India Middle East Europe...

NEW DELHI: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan reviewed the operational preparedness in the eastern sectorover the weekend, amid heightened tensions with China that has seen India shore up defences in the strategically-vulnerable Siliguri Corridor among other measures along the entire frontier.Gen Chauhan visited ‘forward areas’ in north Bengal and the Hasimara air base, where a squadron of...

BEIJING: Chinese fighter jets and warships simulated strikes on Taiwan Sunday as they encircled the island during a second straight day of military drills that were launched in response to its president meeting the US House speaker.The exercises sparked condemnation from Taipei and calls for restraint from Washington, which said it was "monitoring Beijing's actions closely".Dubbed "Joint Sword", the...

NEW DELHI: India’s announcement of dates for the G20 meeting in Srinagar came despite opposition from Pakistan and also China, which had last month also objected to another.While Pakistan had lobbied its allies in G20, like Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and indeed China, to stop the meeting in Srinagar, Beijing had reacted to a meeting of the group in Arunachal last month by releasing “invented names”...

NEW DELHI: With disengagement in eastern Ladakh still incomplete, the government on Thursday reiterated that return to normalcy in ties with with China would require restoration of peace and tranquillity in the border areas.“The restoration of normalcy in our relationship will require restoration of peace and tranquillity in the border areas which have been disturbed since April 2020,” MEA...

GUWAHATI: China’s latest claim to Arunachal Pradesh by releasing a list of “standardised geographical names” for 11 places in the frontier state turns out to be a random naming of isolated forest tracts, nondescript peaks, non-existent rivers and town areas superficially bound together as part of Cona, Zayu and Medog counties in Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet. For instance, the coordinates of two...

In a move seen as a reiteration of its claim over Arunachal Pradesh, China has standardised the names of 11 places in the state, which it calls "Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet". The development comes just a week after India held a G20 meeting in Arunachal that China chose to skip.The names were released on Sunday by China's ministry of civil affairs in Chinese, Tibetan and Pinyin. This is in...

MUMBAI: In a major shot in the arm for the city's security agencies, China has given its green signal to extradite Prasad Pujari - one of the last few gangsters operating from foreign shores and wanted in several cases of extortion, threat to life and murder- and has asked the Government of India to send its extradition request in Mandarin.The Chinese authorities gave its approval to the Ministry of...