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Tensions between China and India are at a decade-long-high following a number of deadly clashes along the disputed border region that separates both countries. According to a new report that has surfaced this past weekend, India has deployed a quick-reaction air defense system to the Ladakh region, as both super …

NEW DELHI:India is seeking the extradition of a top Pakistan militant suspected to have planned the 2008 Mumbai attacks after the United States said last week he was living freely in Pakistan, government officials said on Sunday. India and the United States have both indicted Sajid Mir of the Pakistan-based …

China’s state media reported that it reinforced its troops at the Ladakh border with martial arts fighters and mountain climbers, before the deadly clash between Chinese and Indian troops that saw 20 Indian soldiers killed and others captured. Tensions are common between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the mountainous border …

New Dehli: The Economic Times newspaper, citing an informed source, reported that the Indian Ministry of Defense is negotiating with Russia to speed up the supply of hand-held Igla air defense system. Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Moscow to participate in the Victory Day parade this week, and …

NEW DELHI: India reported 16,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, its highest daily increase since the outbreak began, and the government called in the army to manage new treatment centres with thousands of additional hospital beds in New Delhi. At more than 456,000 confirmed coronavirus cases so far, India is …

KARACHI: “If I [had a] gun I [would] kill at least 100 Chinese soldiers before I die,” read one post from an Indian netizen on Twitter. Another net user wrote that they would “destroy” China with atom and hydrogen bombs. Revealing such anti-China sentiments, Chinese paper Global Times says an …

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said there had been no intrusion across India’s borders after more than 20 Indian soldiers were killed and 70 injured in a clash with Chinese troops in the Ladakh valley. “Nobody has intruded into our border, neither is anybody there now, nor …

NEW DELHI: Three days after clashes in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh left 20 Indian soldiers dead, the Chinese on Thursday evening released 10 Indian Army personnel, including a Lieutenant Colonel and three Majors, from their custody, The Hindu said. It quoted an unnamed security source as saying that all …

NEW DELHI: Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi slammed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence on the escalating tensions between India and China, a day after a violent face-off at the Himalayas between the two countries’ armies resulted in 20 Indian soldiers getting killed. “Why is the PM silent? …

NEW DELHI: India and China said they want peace but blamed each other on Wednesday after soldiers of the two sides savagely fought each other with nail-studded clubs and stones on their Himalayan border, killing at least 20 Indian troops. “We never provoke anyone,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said …