At the WMCC meeting held Wednesday, India and China decided on the military level meeting, as well as working towards the 5-point agenda worked out in Moscow last month.
Removal of expense cap means defence ministry, which is processing over 100 emergency procurement contracts, can go ahead with spending without permission from finance ministry.
Massive logistics have been put in place in Ladakh to house additional troops, with heated prefabricated tents, specialised clothing and high-energy rations.
Temperatures have already dipped below minus-5 degrees Celsius in the upper reaches, and the Army is still procuring items for the thousands of troops deployed.
MEA says the 5 border pacts of 1993, 1996 and 2005 have always affirmed that both India and China would work towards reaching a common understanding of the LAC.
During the visit on 6-7 October, Jaishankar will also be meeting his US, Australian & Japanese counterparts — Mike Pompeo, Marise Payne and Motegi Toshimitsu — separately.
Speaking at a conference, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said the IAF is fully resolved to counter any 'misadventure' in the region.
In 1962, PM Nehru rejected Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai's offer to withdraw 20km from the 'so-called McMahon Line', which the Chinese defined as the LAC.
Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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