Tag Archives: India

• A fine line – An Irishman’s Diary on Sir Henry McMahon, China and India 29 August 2020 | Ronan McGreevy This post has no comments yet

  Henry McMahon convened a conference at Simla, the summer capital of British India, in 1914 with a view to determining once and for all India’s northern frontiers. Three countries were involved: British India, China, and Tibet. ...

• Military options are open if China talks fail: General Rawat 24 August 2020 | Vishnu Som This post has 2 comments

  Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said today that India has "military options" to deal with China regarding the incursions in Ladakh if the military and diplomatic level talks do not produce the desired results. ...

• September session of Tibetan Parliament cancelled, next in March 18 August 2020 | Tibet Sun Online News This post has no comments yet

  The September session of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has been cancelled due to concerns about the Coronavirus, according to a press release. It would have been the 10th session of the 16th Parliament. ...

• Chinese spying on Dalai Lama arrested in Delhi 16 August 2020 | Neeta Sharma This post has 2 comments

  A Chinese national arrested for alleged money-laundering, was also bribing some Tibetan monks in Delhi, possibly to gather information on Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and his associates, the Income Tax department has found. ...

• India to invest $1.46 trillion to lift virus-hit economy 15 August 2020 | Ashok Sharma and Aniruddha Ghosal This post has no comments yet

  India’s prime minister said Saturday his country has done well in containing the coronavirus pandemic and announced $1.46 trillion in infrastructure projects to boost the sagging economy. ...

• Indian and Nepali prime ministers speak for first time since land dispute This post has no comments yet

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepali counterpart KP Sharma Oli spoke on Saturday for the first time since a diplomatic spat over a map and a disputed area of territory erupted earlier this year between the South Asian neighbours. ...

• India urges China to hurry disengagement of troops in Ladakh 14 August 2020 | Ashok Sharma This post has one comment

  India urged China on Friday to expedite the complete disengagement of troops from border areas in eastern Ladakh, where thousands of soldiers from the two countries have remained in a tense standoff since May. ...

• Standoff with China will be long, India warns in pulled statement 6 August 2020 This post has no comments yet

  India’s defence ministry has warned, in a statement since removed from its website, that a military standoff with China that began with border fighting in June is likely to be a long one, despite multiple rounds of talks. ...

• Wait of centuries is over, Modi says, as Ayodhya temple construction begins 5 August 2020 | Saurabh Sharma This post has 3 comments

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched the construction of a Hindu temple on a site that has been contested by Muslims for decades in a dispute that has sparked some of India’s bloodiest communal violence. ...

• Border dispute should not dominate China, India ties – Chinese envoy to US 4 August 2020 This post has one comment

  A border dispute between India and China - which turned deadly in June when troops of the two sides clashed - should not dominate relations between the nuclear-armed Asian powers, the Chinese ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday. ...