The foreign ministry's remarks came a day after President Xi ordered the military to scale up battle preparedness and asked it defend the country's sovereignty.
A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.
By building roads right up to the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, India is changing the rules of the game that China has been unilaterally playing all these years.
Former envoy Gautam Bambawale lauds India’s move to seek probe into the origins of ‘Wuhan virus’ saying it's 'absolutely essential from a humanitarian point of view’.
India can't deter China from using Himalayan skirmishes unless it goes on the offensive elsewhere. New Delhi's message must be: 'Do not poke us here and we won't poke you there'.
External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said it was the Chinese side that recently undertook activities hindering India's normal patrols in the areas.
In episode 475 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains why Nepal is criticising India on Covid-19 and Lipulekh Pass, and how China figures in this equation.
On LAC tensions, India thinks China is 'just taking advantage' of the current distractions due to the pandemic, and is following this 'pattern' with other countries too.
Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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