While responding to a query over Tawang clash, Dalai Lama at Kangra airport in Himachal Pradesh said, "Now things... General speaking, things are improving, I think in Europe and Africa and also in Asia. Now China also now more flexible. Ok. But there is no point to return to China. I pre
The opposition parties on Monday staged a walkout from Rajya Sabha as their demand to hold a debate over the recent clashes along the LAC between the Indian and Chinese forces at the Tawang sector in Arunachal Pradesh was disallowed.
Underlining the Centre's take against terrorism, Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday said that the Modi government has zero tolerance for terror and the decisive actions by the central government have given definitive results.
"The era of peace started in the northeast after 2014. 80 per cent reduction in insurgency violence, 89 per cent reduction in civilian deaths and 6000 militants surrendered after 2014. 265 per cent reduction in left-wing extremism," said Union Minister Anurag Thakur.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not spare anyone. We support the Modi government and Indian army," Lama Yeshi Khawo - a Monk of Tawang Monastery said.
Expert in India-China relations Professor Lin Minwang, in a statement, said, "In a way, it was not surprising that both sides would clash in the eastern section of the border."
The Sela Pass tunnel which will provide all-weather connectivity to the Indian Army towards the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Tawang near the China border is being constructed atop 13,000 feet in Arunachal Pradesh.
A face-off between Indian and Chinese troops in the Tawang sector on December 9 led to minor injuries "to a few personnel" from both sides, sources said on Monday (December 12) and noted that both sides immediately disengaged from the area.
The local villagers of Zemithang are not worried about such type of incidents as the Tawang skirmish and they have full confidence in the Union government and the Indian army that, the government and Indian army will protect them.
Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday hit out at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over the latter's controversial remark flagging 'clear threats' from alleged Chinese incursions into Indian territory.
A day after Rahul Gandhi said that Chinese soldiers are "beating up jawans in Arunachal Pradesh", Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday condemned his statement terming it "shameful".