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Thursday, March 28, 2024
TopicLadakh standoff

Topic: Ladakh standoff

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.

Indian Army ‘redeploys’ troops, reaches heights facing Finger 4 in Pangong Tso

The move by India, both in Southern and Northern banks of the Pangong Lake, comes after talks with China reached a stalemate with PLA refusing to budge from its positions.

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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 joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

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.