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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicLadakh standoff

Topic: Ladakh standoff

Govt admits Ladakh ‘challenge’ in Lok Sabha, Rajnath confident of countering China aggression

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reads out statement in Parliament, saying violent conduct of Chinese forces has been in complete violation of all agreed norms.

Chinese envoy talks of ‘win-win cooperation’, but blames India for illegally trespassing LAC

Ambassador Sun Weidong says India and China now need to focus on ‘cooperation and not confrontation’, and ‘mutual trust and not suspicion’.

Reader View: India & China need to pursue diplomatic talks to settle border issues

YourTurn is our new weekly feature in which ThePrint's readers share their views or opinions in response to the question of the week.

Fresh India-China corps commanders’ talks will have new terms of engagement, challenges

A big challenge will be China’s willingness to put its words about wanting peace into action, especially with Communist Party plenary around the corner.

China wanted ‘no escalation’ on hotline call in the day, tried to capture territory at night

Hours before trying to push in 1,000 soldiers near Pangong Tso on 28 August, Chinese PLA had called Indian Army to avoid escalatory action and night patrolling.

Jaishankar leaves for meeting with China’s Wang but no one’s expecting a breakthrough in Ladakh

Diplomats and analysts say though the Jaishankar-Wang Yi meet might end in stalemate like Rajnath’s meeting with Wei Fenghe, India must keep talking to China.

India’s use of secret guerrilla force SFF in Ladakh signals a larger design to contain China

China has boundary disputes with 17 other nations besides India. What's New Delhi waiting for?

India is being responsible but don’t doubt our ability to defend, Rajnath tells China

China issued a statement, saying the ‘responsibility lies entirely with India’ and hoped India ‘will strictly abide by the series of agreements reached by the two sides’.

LAC tensions most serious since 1962, can’t be business as usual with China, FS Shringla says

Foreign Secretary Harsh V. Shringla says there will be no compromise ‘on our sovereignty and territorial integrity’, but India is always willing to talk & ready to engage.

Negotiation is the way forward with China, says India amid rising tensions at LAC

It is clear that the situation witnessed in the past four months is a result of the actions taken by China that sought to effect unilateral change of status quo, says MEA.

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Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

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.