As China objected to his visit to Arunachal Pradesh, the Union home minister, Amit Shah, went ahead in launching the “Vibrant Villages” programme in the border village of Kibithoo in Arunachal Pradesh and used the occasion to deliver his message across the border by asserting that “nobody can encroach on even an inch” of India’s borderlands. Read More

Japanese vice minister of Defense for International Affairs Oka Masami and defence minister Rajnath Singh met on Thursday Read More

Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk has landed in the capital on a three-day visit to India, on Monday. The monarch is visiting the country on the invitation of President Droupadi Murmu. Read More

China has again attempted to stake its claim on India’s Arunachal Pradesh by renaming 11 places in the state in its language with standard Chinese and Tibetan characters citing them as parts of so-called South Tibet. Read More

The Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses has organized a 2-day 21st Asian Security Conference on ‘Towards Reformed Multilateralism in the Era of Indo-Pacific’ on March 28-29. Read More

An American news outlet has reported that the United States provided India with real-time intelligence which enabled the Indian Army to thwart China’s People’s Liberation Army to unilaterally alter the status quo at the line of actual control near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh last December. Read More

Anjali Kaur, the US Agency for International Development deputy assistant administrator for the Asia bureau, is currently on a visit to India, the US embassy here said in a statement. Read More

The prime minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, went on board India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, in Mumbai, on Thursday. The Australian prime minister is currently on a visit to India. Read More

Amid heightened tensions and an all-time-low freeze in diplomatic ties after the Cold War between the United States and the Russian Federation, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken met briefly on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi. Read More

G20 foreign ministers discussed a range of issues, including climate change, food and energy security, gender issues, global health, multilateralism, terrorism, etc. However, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war loomed large over the meeting, which eventually stopped the member nations from issuing a joint statement. Read More