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Arunachal Pradesh: Dr. Jaishankar junks China’s seasonal claims as “ludicrous”

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday dismissed China’s repeated claims on Arunachal Pradesh as “ludicrous” and asserted that the frontier northeastern state is a “natural part of India.” In probably his first public comments on China’s frequent claims on Arunachal Pradesh and its opposition to Indian leaders visiting the state, […]

Roving Periscope: Chechnya’s ghosts revisit Russia, killing 115, and wounding many

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after President Vladimir Putin officially won a fifth term, suspected ghosts from Muslim-dominated separatist Chechnya—whom he believed he had crushed two decades ago—revisited Russia on Friday, killing at least 115 people and wounding many more as they attacked a concert hall in national capital Moscow. Global terror outfit Islamic […]

Roving Periscope: China protests to US support for India on Arunachal

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After the US “recognized” Arunachal Pradesh as part of India, China on Thursday “strongly deplored” the move and said that Washington has “nothing to do” with the India-China border dispute. Beijing’s reaction came hours after the US said that Washington recognizes Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory and “strongly opposes” unilateral territorial […]

Chinese checkers: Taiwan spots enemy military aircraft, and naval vessels nearby

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Putting up relentless pressure on Taiwan to either merge itself with the mainland or face war, China on Wednesday sent several military aircraft and naval vessels near the democratically-run island republic that Beijing routinely claims as its territory. The Taiwan Ministry of National Defense (MND) reportedly tracked 15 Chinese military aircraft […]

Arunachal Pradesh: India slams China’s claims as “absurd, baseless”

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The External Affairs Ministry (EAM) on Tuesday termed China’s recent claims on Arunachal Pradesh as its territory (“South Tibet”), and reiterated that the northeastern state “was, is, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India.” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal’s comments came two days after China’s Peoples’ Liberation Army […]

‘Friendly wars’: Pak airstrike kills 8 Afghans; Taliban condemns, vows revenge

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A week after a new government was installed in Islamabad, at least eight Afghans were killed inside Afghanistan early on Monday in airstrikes carried out by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) targeting multiple suspected hideouts of the Tehreek-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP), the media reported. According to early reports, eight people, including a wanted terrorist […]
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