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Thursday, March 28, 2024
TopicIndia-China border

Topic: India-China border

Why India’s border standoff with China reveals Modi weakness. It’s the economy, stupid

How far does India want to escalate border tensions, in the full knowledge that Xi won’t show up at G20 if Delhi pushes the tipping point?

India, China discuss proposals for disengagement along Line of Actual Control

This was the first in-person meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) since 2019, & was held Wednesday in Beijing.

9,400 more personnel, new operational base for ITBP — how India plans to strengthen hold on LAC

Hirings will allow ITBP to raise 7 new border battalions. Move comes days after Leh superintendent of police reported India lost access to 26 of 65 patrolling points along LAC with China.

Bridge allowing armoured vehicles to pass opened in Arunachal, less than month of Tawang clash

The Siyom bridge in Arunachal Pradesh is a 100-metre ‘Class-70’ steel arch superstructure, which can withstand movement of armoured columns along with artillery.

What dominates Chinese chatter on India—economy, cheaper medicine

While Indians rely on Western media for information and insights about China, Chinese social media users rely on Russian state media to learn about developments in India.

‘Someone’s trying to hide something’: Urdu press slams govt’s ‘silence’ on India-China border row

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took

Chinese threat hurting South Asian power balance. But US support for India can change this

To tackle the challenges ahead, the US should devote more resources and attention to India than Pakistan, which is acting like a Chinese tributary.

India-China stalemate continues, fresh talks fail to break log jam on de-escalation along LAC

After the 17th round of talks, the Chinese refused to stand down in the strategically important Depsang Plains and the stand-off, which began in May 2020, has entered its third winter.

Congress wants to pin Modi down on China issue. It’s holding the wrong end of the stick

For a debate in Parliament, Congress-led opposition is focusing on the status of India-China border – a historic dispute which isn’t a making of the Modi government.

‘Stable but unpredictable’, says Army Chief of situation at LAC, no reduction in Chinese troops

Gen Manoj Pande said solution to five of seven friction points achieved through talks. Meanwhile the army is undergoing transformations to make it a modern, future-ready force.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts training Jammu & Kashmir cops 

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.