By N. C. Bipindra Leh (Ladakh): India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh today dedicated to the nation 75 infrastructure projects built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) at a function organised at D-S-DBO road here. These 75 projects — 45 bridges, 27 roads, two Helipads and one Carbon […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India is exploring options for selecting a vendor for producing 1,750 future infantry vehicles for its army that will replace the current inventory of Russian-origin personnel carriers. The project may cost up to $7 billion or Rs 52,000 crore, some industry veterans […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. For the writer’s other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan The 1950–1951 invasion of Tibet by the People’s Liberation Army resulted in significant changes in the Chinese relationship with […]
(Editor’s Note: In arrangement with Defence Research and Studies, a Kochi-based think-tank) By Colonel (Dr) N. K. Chhibber The Great Game conceptualised a policy of “buffer zones between the expansionist forces”, in the instant case Russia and British India. Russian southward expansion was intended to be halted somewhere […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: As India celebrated its 74th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a strong message for neighbours China and Pakistan that the South Asian nation will not tolerate any challenge to its sovereignty. “From the LoC (Line of Control with Pakistan) to the […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated with Indian Army statement at paragraph 16 and a Ministry of External Affairs add-on statement at paragraph 23.) New Delhi: India held a meeting of the China Study Group, a formal gathering of senior Indian government officials, last evening to consider the marathon 15-hour discussion […]
New Delhi: The current two-month face-off between the Indian and Chinese armies in Ladakh over infrastructure projects notwithstanding, India today said it will push ahead with the strategic border roads, bridges and tunnels that boost the nation’s forward connectivity. India‘s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh reviewed the progress […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: An expansionist China has now picked up a fresh border dispute with Himalayan nation Bhutan in an apparent attempt to target India with whom the Asian giant has been locked in a bitter military conflict eastern Ladakh since May. The problem started in […]
New Delhi: India can handle China militarily with the qualitative defence capabilities that the Indian armed forces possess today, but the military action should be the last resort, said a former Corps Commander, who was tasked with defending Arunachal Pradesh from the Asian dragon’s aggression while in military […]
(Editor’s Note: The opinions are that of the writer’s.) By Siddhartha Sharma For over three decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has spread propaganda and pumped corporate earnings, through channel stuffing, to portray China as an economic powerhouse in the region. The CCP’s mendacious propaganda has now tied […]
By N. C. Bipindra It is not very often, rather never, in the last 45 years has one heard of either Indian soldiers or Chinese military personnel having been killed in the frequent border clashes that happen every summer. That peace record between the ‘blow hot-blow cold’ rivals […]
By Lieutenant General S. L. Narasimhan Starting from 2013, India-China boundary has had a few incidents. Prior to that, only two incidents of importance had occurred post the 1962 war between India and China. They were at Nathu La in 1967 and Sumdrong Chu in 1986. Almost 27 […]
