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Sunday, July 27, 2025
TopicLine of Actual Control

Topic: Line of Actual Control

India and China should lower their border tensions, talk more: Ex-envoy Bambawale

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’.

How India can end Chinese transgressions: Take conflict to a place Beijing is worried about

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'.

Doklam to Galwan: Have Modi-Xi informal summits been more about optics than border peace?

The standoff between Indian and Chinese militaries continues at Ladakh. India is deploying troops at multiple locations to mirror Chinese deployment.

India dismisses China’s allegations that Indian troops trespassed across LAC

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said it was the Chinese side that recently undertook activities hindering India's normal patrols in the areas.

Reason behind Nepal’s recent hostility, and India’s longstanding LAC dispute with China

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.

India and China hold military talks amid rising tensions at LAC in eastern Ladakh

Both India and China continue to patrol the LAC and try to restrict the other. However, no physical clash has taken place since the evening of 5 May.

India isn’t worried about tension with China, unlikely to give in to US pressure on Taiwan

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.

India TV works out, Amish Devgan on Pak’s ‘pitaayi’ by India & Gaurav Sawant at China LoC

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

With ‘Him Vijay’ & Mountain Strike Corps, India can alter the way China border is managed

Indian Army's Mountain Strike Corps signals a historic shift in the way India defines deterrence in its relationship with China.

‘Arunachal exercise of new Army mountain strike corps not linked to Xi Jinping India trip’

There have been reports that China has objected to the exercise ahead of Xi's visit to India next week for a second informal summit with PM Modi.

On Camera

Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.