A tunnel nearing completion in the Indian Himalayas will slash by hours the time it takes troops to reach the Chinese border, part of an infrastructure blitz by New Delhi that is gathering pace since a bloody border clash. The nuclear-armed Asian giants blame each other for a brutal high-altitude battle in June that left 20 Indian […]
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Indian and Chinese border troops had an exchange of gunfire last week just days before a meeting of their foreign ministers, Indian officials said on Wednesday, in a further breach of a decades-old restraint at the frontier. The two sides have had a long standing agreement for troops not to use firearms at the poorly defined […]
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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday said India was losing credibility at international forums due to its aggressive posturing, Radio Pakistan reported. The foreign minister’s comments come a day after Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval walked out in protest during a speech by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Security Moeed Yusuf at an online […]
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Pakistan on Monday summoned the Indian chargé d’affaires to convey its serious concern over the deaths of 11 Pakistani Hindus, whose bodies were found in “mysterious” circumstances in a village field in India’s Rajasthan state last month. On August 9, the bodies of 11 people including children from a single family, who had migrated to India from […]
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Two Indian officials said Chinese troops were laying a network of optical fibre cables at a western Himalayan flashpoint with India, suggesting they were digging in for the long haul despite high-level talks aimed at resolving a standoff there. Such cables, which would provide forward troops with secure lines of communication to bases in the […]
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Mantasha Bano was 28 weeks pregnant when her cries of sudden, unbearable pain prompted neighbours to call an ambulance in the rural Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It never came, and Bano’s baby was stillborn. Medical workers in the northern state have reported a marked increase in stillbirths as the coronavirus pandemic strains hard-pressed rural […]
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China and India said they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore “peace and tranquillity” following a high-level diplomatic meeting in Moscow. Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi and Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar met in Moscow on Thursday and reached a five-point consensus, including agreements the […]
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HANOI: Washington’s top diplomat urged Southeast Asian countries on Thursday to stand up to “maritime bullying” by China and to reassess business deals with its state firms, adding to heated exchanges between two powers jostling for influence. Speaking remotely to foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean), Secretary of State […]
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NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli says he has ‘never felt so calm’ going into an Indian Premier League season as the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper chases an elusive title in the Twenty20 tournament. The Kohli-led Bangalore finished runners-up in the 2016 edition but have since disappointed and were bottom of the eight-team table last year. […]
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An 86-year-old grandmother was allegedly raped and assaulted by a man nearly five decades younger than her in India, BBC News reported, in the latest shocking case of sexual violence against women in the country. Police in the capital New Delhi have arrested a man in his 30s who allegedly duped the octogenarian into accompanying him before […]
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