The northeastern state of India, Arunachal Pradesh, has initiated several infrastructure development programmes in the areas along the international border with China, Bhutan and Myanmar. Border areas remained neglected for decades till the current India government planned to uplift those ar
According to the MEA report, China has since April-May 2020, undertaken several attempts to unilaterally alter the status quo along the LAC in Western Sector, which seriously disturbed the peace and tranquillity along the LAC.
After the Indian Army recently cleared women officers for command roles, Colonel Geeta Rana of the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers has become the first woman officer to take over command of an Independent field workshop in the Eastern Ladakh sector with China.
Amid the ongoing military standoff with China on the Line of Actual Control, defence intelligence agencies have issued a strong advisory to formations to ensure that the troops are not using Chinese mobile phones.
In a major stride towards the 'Make-in-India' in the defence sector, the Ministry of Defence has received a proposal from Indian Army to buy 307 Advanced Towed Artillery Gun Systems (ATAGS) for deployment along the borders with China and Pakistan.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday termed Rahul Gandhi's claims on China's aggression on the LAC in eastern Ladakh as right and said that the neighbouring country has developed a good infrastructure on the border areas.
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said that the vibrant village scheme of the Union government will help to develop the border villages along Indio China border in Himachal Pradesh.
Highlighting how the border Infrastructure holds the key to any nation's preparedness, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar once again underscored how security at the borders including at the India-China border is closely linked with the infrastructure developed in the area.