Following the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Saurabh Bharadwaj came down heavily upon the central government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party stating that its policies related to Jammu and Kashmir, China, and Pakistan hav
The two-day meeting chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will begin in Nizhny Novgorod and comes ahead of the BRICS Summit slated to be held this October.
The decision comes after two unidentified persons said they would deliver leaflets near the Mashan observation post on Kinmen to "send warmth to the Taiwanese troops".
Counterparts from 18 EAS Participating Countries (10 ASEAN Member States and 8 Dialogue Partners of ASEAN namely, Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, RoK, Russia and the US) and Timor-Leste took part in the EAS SOM.
The intrusion of PLA assets into Taiwan's airspace underscores the heightened tensions in the region, as Taiwan continues to grapple with increasing military activities from mainland China.
Former US Defence official Elbridge Colby stressed that an attack by China against Taiwan could happen with little warning as China has given up on "peaceful unification", reported Taiwan News.
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has advised Taiwanese nationals travelling to China to be careful after a citizen travelling with a tour group was briefly detained in China earlier this week.
Of the 13 People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft, six were detected in the southwest and eastern sectors of Taiwan's Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), according to Taiwan's MND.
The Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal has thanked the Chinese Foreign Ministry for congratulating Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on his win in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. Jaiswal noted that India will continue to pursue normalisation of ties