Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal on Monday slammed the government of 'distorting parliamentary rules' in Lok Sabha after objections were raised to Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi quoting from an article that cited excerpts of the unpublished memoir of former Army Chief General MM
Addressing the complexities of the relationship between India and China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that 75 per cent of the border dispute that had overshadowed the relations between both countries during the COVID-19 pandemic had been resolved only due to the "disengagem
"How would America react if a neighbour occupied 4,000 square kilometers of its territory? Would any president be able to get away with saying he's handled that well?" Rahul Gandhi said.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should end his "silence" on his "na koi hamari seema mein ghus aaya hei, na hi koi ghusa hua hai" remarks made in 2020 in the context of border standoff with China and alleged that Indian soldiers have been
Noting that China violated agreements in 2020 by bringing a number of forces along the LAC in Ladakh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that India responded by counter-deploying troops and there is "very abnormal deployment" along the Line of Actual Control.
While referring to Beijing's claims as "ludicrous", the EAM said that Arunachal Pradesh is a part of India because it is a part of the country, and not only because a foreign country says so.
"Our own experience in the case of China...is between 1975 and 2020, which is really 45 years, there was no bloodshed on the border. In 2020, it changed," Jaishankar said.
Ahead of the upcoming India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue, US Assistant Secretary for Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu said that Washington would be interested to know about the discussions between New Delhi and Beijing regarding the border standoff.
Highly trained for conducting operations in hilly areas and urban terrain, the Garud Special Forces of IAF were initially deployed in the valley in 2007 and 2009 and redeployed in 2017, Commanding Officer of a Garud unit told ANI in an exclusive interaction.
In December 2022, a clash took place near Yangtse along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the sensitive Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh amid the over 30-month border standoff between India and China in eastern Ladakh.