Tag Archives: India

  • India bans 43 more mobile apps as it takes on China 24 November 2020 | Reuters Staff This post has no comments yet

    India banned 43 mobile applications on Tuesday including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s e-commerce app Aliexpress in a new wave of web sanctions targeted at China with whom it has engaged in a months-long standoff at a Himalayan border site. ...

  • India summons Pakistani diplomat over Kashmir gun battle 21 November 2020 | Sanjeev Miglani and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam This post has no comments yet

    India on Saturday summoned a senior Pakistani diplomat over what New Delhi said was a foiled attack this week in the frontier territory of Jammu and Kashmir by a Pakistan-based militant group, a charge the neighbouring country denied. ...

  • Malabar exercise of ‘Quad’ concludes with clear message for China 20 November 2020 | Rajat Pandit This post has one comment

    The power-packed second phase of the top-notch Malabar naval exercise, with two aircraft carriers, fighter jets and ten other warships from India, the US, Japan and Australia, came to an end in the Arabian Sea on Friday. ...

  • NS Venkataraman RCEP: China’s strategy to browbeat the world 19 November 2020 | NS Venkataraman This post has no comments yet

    With several weak countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka falling into China’s trap, China can feel confident that its strategies and approach have been further vindicated by its clever RCEP strategy. ...

  • Indian and Pakistani troops exchange fire, at least 15 dead 14 November 2020 | Fayaz Bukhari and Abu Arqam Naqash This post has no comments yet

    At least 10 civilians and five security personnel were killed in cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan on Friday, in one of this year’s deadliest days along the heavily militarised frontier separating the nuclear-armed rivals. ...

  • NS Venkataraman Let not the world underestimate China’s expansionist greed | NS Venkataraman This post has 2 comments

    There is no greater proof needed about China’s expansionist greed and unscrupulous methods than its aggressive occupation of Tibet, claims in India, suppression in Hong Kong, threats to Taiwan, and claims in the South China Sea. ...

  • India’s festive mood raises fears of surge of coronavirus 13 November 2020 | Ashok Sharma and Shonal Ganguly This post has no comments yet

    The crowds filling shopping areas ahead of the Diwali festival of lights on Saturday are raising hopes of India’s distressed business community after months of lockdown losses but also spawning fears of a massive coronavirus upsurge. ...

  • China proposes pullback at Pangong, India considers offer 12 November 2020 | Deeptiman Tiwary and Krishn Kaushik This post has one comment

    Six months after PLA troops came in 8 km west of the point which India says marks the Line of Actual Control on the north bank of Pangong Tso to trigger a military standoff in Ladakh, China has proposed moving its troops back to Finger 8. ...

  • India planning around $20 billion of new stimulus: sources 11 November 2020 | Aftab Ahmed This post has no comments yet

    India is planning to announce a fresh round of stimulus totalling about $20 billion this week to help pull the economy out of its historic contraction, government officials said on Wednesday. ...

  • India launches radar imaging satellite and 9 foreign satellites 7 November 2020 This post has no comments yet

    India on Saturday successfully placed into orbit one more eye in the sky — a radar imaging earth observation satellite EOS-01 (formerly RISAT-2BR2) — and nine other foreign satellites in a text book style. ...