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We Will Remember’: Mike Pompeo Offers Condolences To Indian Soldiers Killed In Ladakh Face-off

We Will Remember’: Mike Pompeo Offers Condolences To Indian Soldiers Killed In Ladakh Face-off

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday expressed condolences to the people of India for the loss of lives in Galwan Valley during a fierce face-off between the Indian and Chinese armies. Pompeo took to Twitter to extend his support to the India and wrote: “We extend our deepest condolences to the people of […]

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For Class 10, NCERT lists topics for self-study, no marking

For Class 10, NCERT lists topics for self-study, no marking

The age of industrialisation in History; area of a triangle and frustum of a cone in Mathematics; and in Science, physical properties of metals and non-metals, and the ‘Tyndall Effect’ on the eye. These are among concepts and topics that Class 10 students may not be assessed on in their Board exams next year, and […]

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Get Facts Straight’: Jaishankar Raps Rahul For Poser On Why Soldiers Went ‘Unarmed To Martyrdom’

Get Facts Straight’: Jaishankar Raps Rahul For Poser On Why Soldiers Went ‘Unarmed To Martyrdom’

All Indian troops guarding the border with China carry arms, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday, replying to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s poser that why Army personnel in Galwan Valley were sent “unarmed to martyrdom”. The minister said armies of the two sides do not use firearms as per provisions of two bilateral […]

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China used nail-studded iron rods to kill Indian army men: Report

China used nail-studded iron rods to kill Indian army men: Report

SRINAGAR: In the violent clash on Monday night, the Indian army lost a Colonel and 19 other personnel when the Chinese soldiers attacked Indian soldiers with stones, nail-studded sticks and iron rods, according to reports. China used nail-studded iron rods to kill Indian Soldiers: Report The Chinese Army used iron rods studded with nails to […]

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Nepal’s National Assembly passes bill to update map incorporating Indian territories

Nepal’s National Assembly passes bill to update map incorporating Indian territories

Nepal’s National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed the Constitution Amendment Bill to update the country’s political and administrative map incorporating the Indian territories, reported a news agency, Press Trust of India (PTI). India has termed as untenable the “artificial enlargement” of territorial claims by Nepal after its lower house of parliament on Saturday unanimously approved the new […]

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China’s claim over Galwan Valley ‘exaggerated, untenable’: MEA

China’s claim over Galwan Valley ‘exaggerated, untenable’: MEA

(Agencies) New Delhi: India has trashed China’s claim of sovereignty over the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, the site of a violent cross-border clash, saying such “exaggerated” and “untenable” claims are contrary to the understanding reached during a high-level military dialogue on June 6. The Chinese military on Thursday said the Galwan Valley has always […]

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Galwan valley dispute: India deploys more troops along LAC, Navy, Air Force raise alert level

Galwan valley dispute: India deploys more troops along LAC, Navy, Air Force raise alert level

(Agencies) Frontline bases of the Indian army and the air force along the nearly 3,500 km border with China were put on high alert on Wednesday in view of the worst border clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Galwan Valley that left 20 Army personnel dead and several injured, news agency PTI reported. The […]

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Chinese firms to lose India business in Railways, telecom

Chinese firms to lose India business in Railways, telecom

As tensions run high after the violent clash in Ladakh that left 20 Indian soldiers dead, a first set of actions have been initiated against Chinese businesses in the country. A Chinese engineering major is set to lose a significant contract with the Indian Railways, and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has conveyed to state-owned Bharat […]

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Behind Galwan’s bloody face-off, China’s plan to interdict gateway to Karakoram

Behind Galwan’s bloody face-off, China’s plan to interdict gateway to Karakoram

It was the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s insistence of constructing an observation post at Indian patrolling point that resulted in the violent scrap between the two sides on the evening of June 15, according to a a sequence of events put together by HT. The post would have helped the Chinese to not only observe […]

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Dear Editor, I Disagree With Your ‘Both-sides’ Journalism

Dear Editor, I Disagree With Your ‘Both-sides’ Journalism

It’s not often that the junior most reporter in the newsroom gets to question the editor-in-chief’s decisions, and from the publication’s turf at that. Most media organisations expect their journalists to do all the kraanti outside, but show the highest levels of docility within the organisation precincts. So credit where credit is due. Going a step further, you […]

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