India increased its military presence along at least one part of its border with China, Reuters reported on Wednesday, anticipating a response from the communist nation for India’s removal this weekend of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops allegedly attempting to establish an illegal presence in India.
China’s propaganda offensive against India has intensified as tensions along the border mount. On Wednesday, China’s state-run Global Times wrote an op-ed asserting that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in deep political trouble due to economic contraction, the coronavirus pandemic, and of course his unwise decision to pick a fight with mighty China.
Chinese state media on Monday claimed Indian troops invaded Chinese territory by crossing the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the disputed border in the Ladakh region of the Himalayas that was the scene of a deadly brawl between Chinese and Indian troops in June.
Indian military sources revealed to national news outlets there on Tuesday that its troops had prevented the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from illegally occupying an Indian mountain peak near the two countries’ border.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping addressed strengthening border security in Tibet – where most of China’s border with India is located – for the first time since a bloody encounter between the two nations’ militaries resulted in dozens of deaths in June, the state-run People’s Daily reported on Monday.
Four members of an indigenous tribe in India’s remote Andaman Islands have tested positive for the coronavirus, Indian health officials said on Thursday.
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday published a poll that purportedly found 70 percent support among Chinese for their government to retaliate “strongly” against “Indian provocation.”
A prominent government critic in India must either apologize for two tweets critical of India’s supreme court or face jail time, a local court has ruled.
The head of the armed forces of India warned on Monday that a military response to the Chinese invasion of Indian territory in the Himalayas is still possible, even after over a month of talks to cool tensions between Beijing and New Delhi.
A South Asian man who perpetrated a string of rapes in London which culminated in a violent murder has finally been sentenced for his crimes.
Both India and China have deployed their most advanced fighter jets to airbases near their disputed Himalayan border, according to recent satellite imagery and local reports.
An IT staffing services firm, with an office in Hyderabad, India, discriminated against qualified Americans for white-collar jobs in favor of foreign workers with the Optional Training Program (OPT), the Department of Justice (DOJ) concludes.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently held a live-fire drill in the Himalayas – the Chinese army’s second such exercise near the Indian border in the past month – as an ongoing boundary conflict between the two Asian neighbors continues to escalate.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi made a “rare” visit to Tibet on Friday amid China’s ongoing border dispute with India along their shared Himalayan boundary.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is the “face of America’s demographic shift” spurred by record levels of immigration to the United States over the last six decades, according to the New York Times.
Queen Elizabeth II has led commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day, which signalled the end of World War Two.
India’s state-owned oil companies have barred Chinese tankers from shipping Indian crude and petroleum product, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Thursday.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) carried out live-fire drills in the Himalayas at the end of July, publicly debuting some of the army’s latest weapons, including “a new 122-millimeter caliber wheeled howitzer and a vehicle-mounted version of the HJ-10 anti-tank missile system,” the PLA’s official English-language website reported Thursday.
Three people were killed in the Indian city of Bengaluru on Tuesday night when riots broke out over a Facebook post that some Muslims denounced as offensive and blasphemous.
A multi-ethnic coalition against the Communist Party of China convened an event Sunday in Washington, DC, urging Americans to join their efforts against Beijing’s illegal territorial claims, affecting over half a dozen countries.
An Air India Express plane from Dubai skidded off a runway upon landing at Kozhikode International Airport in southern India’s Kerala state on Friday, breaking into two pieces and killing at least 16 people, including both pilots, multiple local news outlets reported.
Chinese military aggression continues to increase along the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC), an Indian Defense Ministry document noted on Thursday, warning that conflict between the two sides in the disputed border area is likely to be prolonged.
India banned an uncertain number of Chinese smartphone apps Tuesday, adding to the 59 banned at the end of June and 47 more, mostly clones and alternate versions of the original 59, in July.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) stopped Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) S.386 outsourcing bill just moments before it was about to pass through the Senate Wednesday, saying the Trump Administration wants to assess any unwanted outcomes from the legislation.
India’s Education Ministry announced on Saturday that Mandarin will be dropped from the list of recommended foreign languages that should be taught in schools, citing security concerns about ties between Mandarin-language programs and the Chinese Communist government.
A senior official with the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA), which certifies agricultural products, warned this weekend that packages of unlabeled seeds appearing to come from China could represent “seed terrorism.”
The Vanguard Group, one of the largest financial employers in Pennsylvania, is outsourcing about 1,300 of its American staff to the India-based outsourcing firm Infosys.
President Donald Trump on Friday said he was considering banning the video platform TikTok in response to concerns the Chinese Government could access user data.
A report citing anonymous Indian military sources on Thursday revealed that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deploy 35,000 troops to the nation’s border with China, the same day China claimed both sides had largely “disengaged” there.
A study commissioned by the city of Mumbai revealed on Tuesday that over half of the people living in its famously crowded slums have antibodies for the Wuhan coronavirus in their blood.
India welcomed 11 members of Afghanistan’s Sikh and Hindu minority community on Sunday, including one Sikh “recently released from captivity after a month of torture,” the Times of India (TOI) reported Monday.
After banning 59 Chinese smartphone apps at the start of its “Boycott China” initiative last month, India expanded the list Friday to include 47 more — most of them clones or alternate versions of the apps banned in June.
Historians have taken aim at the BBC for an unbalanced News at 10 segment which suggested Sir Winston Churchill was responsible for “mass killing” in Bengal.
Tech giant Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn has reportedly begun production of the company’s iPhone 11 lineup at its production plant near the southern city of Chennai in India.
A 37-year-old man in southern India livestreamed his suicide on Facebook, the Times of India (TOI) reported Friday.
A recent analysis by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists suggests that India has recently refocused its nuclear strategy on China, positioning new missiles “that indicate their primary target as China,” India’s WION news outlet reported on Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that India should focus on domestic supply chains to become less dependent on China for telecommunications and medical supplies, Reuters reported.
Indian Navy warships together with the United States Navy coordinated a joint maritime exercise in the Indian Ocean on Monday, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Tuesday.
Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator issued a “final” notice to Chinese video app TikTok on Monday over concerns it encourages “immoral, obscene, and vulgar content,” the Times of India’s Gadgets Now reported on Tuesday.
Police arrested a man in the south Indian city of Hyderabad on Monday for scamming over 200 people out of money by falsely posing as a plasma donor for coronavirus patients the Times of India (TOI) reported on Tuesday.
