The roads are meant to counter Chinese infrastructure expansion along the border, and were first approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security in 1999.
In an official statement, China said it has always ensured "peace through real action", but made no mention of the 1962 war with India or the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar clarifies that incident between India and China’s armies in Ladakh last week was a ‘face-off’, not a ‘skirmish’.
Beijing said it has been "exercising effective jurisdiction" on the banks of Pangong Lake in eastern Ladakh. Two-thirds of the water body is controlled by China.
Referring to the 2017 Doklam standoff, Army vice-chief designate Lt Gen M.M. Naravane said India gave a clear signal that its Armed forces are no pushovers.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
Wondering how much of those were built in last 5 years? 20 years is a very long time frame to gauge the failure of previous govts and also diluted the hard work of last 5 years which actually saw the real progress.
Great for country and connectivity to the northern frontier especially given the security, stability,peace and prosperity to these regions maintaining better surveillance,availability and resources for army personnel and common Indians.
Namaskar. A very humble, but urgent request, to the China Study Group, as well as to Smt. Ananya Bhardwaj, to seriously consider the issue of food supplies, the subject of provisioning logistics of the Northern Armed forces, sensu lato, from Arunachal Pradesh to Siachen, including the highest altitudes year round.
This included the ancillary support system, the goodwill of the local village communities, especially in sensitive areas, such as near the Kargil-Dras area or Arunachal Pradesh. Not enough attention is paid to these crucial links in the chain. A chain is ONLY as strong as each of its links. For example, the tiny herding community that claims to have FIRST SIGHTED the Pakistani intrusion into Indian territory, remains deeply disaffected. It is but 4-5 households, perched on a cliff, with numerous citations to show but NO MATERIAL HELP WHATSOEVER EVEN 20 YEARS after the Kargil war. Very foolish, don’t you suppose, when a very little could have won a huge amount of goodwill?
Ditto, in Arunachal, the defence roads org. blasted a shrine of Holy Guru Rinpoche ot make way for a road. Would they have blasted a masjid with impunity? Please try to understand what sacrilege has happened. Go back, accept fault, restore a chapel + build a gonkhang where 24 hr path is held. Get some specialists in each sect/subsect of Nyingmapa/Sarmapa Vajrayana as part of the Army, and conversant with EACH major LOCALITY, native to the area.
Back to High Altitude agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry. DRDO had a woeful subsection, manned decades past by Elie Tsering and one Brahm Prakash, and utterly nonsensical. That nonsense today is continued under CAZRI, and every other govt. organization, filled with incompetents. Please, we cannot afford to contest with China, that has NO ROOM FOR CLOWNS where its power is concerned, where we are enamoured of the Krishna Menon-Nehruvian circus of fools to this day.
You have not a single expert familiar with intensive fruit/veg. cultivation without cover in USDA HARDINESS ZONES 2, & 3 [ perhaps even 4?, -45 to -30 C winter lows, and short, cold summers of <90 growing days. China does.
You airlift fresh food from the plains to Thoiche, for forward bases. Have you examined the diets at Siachen? At forwards bases? Please get real; also, serious. The Chinese ARE. We remain Krishna Menon's ulloos. I can prove this.
NO logistics experts, no understanding of principles of thermodynamics throughout the provisioning of the Northern Forces in an integrated manner, considering the TOTAL TEETH: TAIL issue.
What about shelter & drainage at High Altitudes? Again, LACUNAE instead of COMPETENCE. Please talk to those who wish to help without taking anything in return.
Compare the quality of these roads, to the Chinese-built ones across the border…chances are, the ones constructed across the border are way superior
Wondering how much of those were built in last 5 years? 20 years is a very long time frame to gauge the failure of previous govts and also diluted the hard work of last 5 years which actually saw the real progress.
Great for country and connectivity to the northern frontier especially given the security, stability,peace and prosperity to these regions maintaining better surveillance,availability and resources for army personnel and common Indians.
Namaskar. A very humble, but urgent request, to the China Study Group, as well as to Smt. Ananya Bhardwaj, to seriously consider the issue of food supplies, the subject of provisioning logistics of the Northern Armed forces, sensu lato, from Arunachal Pradesh to Siachen, including the highest altitudes year round.
This included the ancillary support system, the goodwill of the local village communities, especially in sensitive areas, such as near the Kargil-Dras area or Arunachal Pradesh. Not enough attention is paid to these crucial links in the chain. A chain is ONLY as strong as each of its links. For example, the tiny herding community that claims to have FIRST SIGHTED the Pakistani intrusion into Indian territory, remains deeply disaffected. It is but 4-5 households, perched on a cliff, with numerous citations to show but NO MATERIAL HELP WHATSOEVER EVEN 20 YEARS after the Kargil war. Very foolish, don’t you suppose, when a very little could have won a huge amount of goodwill?
Ditto, in Arunachal, the defence roads org. blasted a shrine of Holy Guru Rinpoche ot make way for a road. Would they have blasted a masjid with impunity? Please try to understand what sacrilege has happened. Go back, accept fault, restore a chapel + build a gonkhang where 24 hr path is held. Get some specialists in each sect/subsect of Nyingmapa/Sarmapa Vajrayana as part of the Army, and conversant with EACH major LOCALITY, native to the area.
Back to High Altitude agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry. DRDO had a woeful subsection, manned decades past by Elie Tsering and one Brahm Prakash, and utterly nonsensical. That nonsense today is continued under CAZRI, and every other govt. organization, filled with incompetents. Please, we cannot afford to contest with China, that has NO ROOM FOR CLOWNS where its power is concerned, where we are enamoured of the Krishna Menon-Nehruvian circus of fools to this day.
You have not a single expert familiar with intensive fruit/veg. cultivation without cover in USDA HARDINESS ZONES 2, & 3 [ perhaps even 4?, -45 to -30 C winter lows, and short, cold summers of <90 growing days. China does.
You airlift fresh food from the plains to Thoiche, for forward bases. Have you examined the diets at Siachen? At forwards bases? Please get real; also, serious. The Chinese ARE. We remain Krishna Menon's ulloos. I can prove this.
NO logistics experts, no understanding of principles of thermodynamics throughout the provisioning of the Northern Forces in an integrated manner, considering the TOTAL TEETH: TAIL issue.
What about shelter & drainage at High Altitudes? Again, LACUNAE instead of COMPETENCE. Please talk to those who wish to help without taking anything in return.