Sheep grazing in Ladakh. (File photo for representation.) New Delhi: Indian graziers confronted Chinese troops in Skakjung (also called Kokzhung) in eastern Ladakh near the line of actual control (LAC) earlier this month, a post on X by a counci...
USAID DAA Anjali KaurNew Delhi: US Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) of the Bureau for Asia Anjali Kaur is visiting India to advance the US-India development partnership and to meet with government offi...
The Assam Rifles is a CAPF under the administrative control of the Union home ministry while its operational control is with the defence ministry. (Photo via special arrangement.)India shares land borders with Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan...
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, skipped the G20 summit that was held in New Delhi recently. This is something he hasn’t done since taking over the presidency of China, in 2012. Even during the Covid-19 pandemic, he attended the summit virtua...
New Delhi: Days before the G20 summit in which the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, is expected to visit the Indian capital, Beijing has released its official “standard map” of the People’s Republic of China showing parts of Indi...
This two-photo combination shows an under-construction Chinese village, in 2019, and the fully built village, in 2021, inside Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh. (Photo: Maxar/Twitter)New Delhi: China is rapidly raising border settlements all alon...
A BSF patrol near an international border fencing. (File photo for representation.)“Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing them with purpose, direction, and motivation while you are operating to accomplish a mission and im...
The Rezang-la War Memorial. (Photo collected by Jai Samota through special arrangement.)“We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory.” ~ Charles WolfeAfter the eight-day battle, which...
Map showing location of Depsang Plains. The red line on the left depicts the line of control (LoC) with Pakistan and the same on the right depicts the line of actual control (LAC) with China. (Map not to scale)New Delhi: China has laid down its terms...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with troops at a forward position during the 1962 India-China war.Dissecting Claude Arpi’s 1962 India-China war claimsDuring my studies on the hitherto obscure aspects of the 1962 India-China war, particularly wi...