New Delhi: China's all-weather fighter base in Tibet is now widening its range of options in the event of a conflict with India. Intelligence intercepts and satellite monitoring has confirmed that China may have to some extent overcome Tibet's extreme altitude and temperatures to operationalise an all-weather airfield near the Tibetan capital Lhasa. The airfield is Gonkar, where China has deployed Su-27 fighters. Sources told CNN-IBN that the Gonkar airfield...
11:52 AM, May 20, 2013
"Tensions along the Line of Actual Control don't give leverage unless you stay there," said a senior diplomat with long experience of China. And China didn't stay on at Raki Nulla in eastern Ladakh during the face off last month, raising the question as to why it happened in the first place. "I don't buy the theory of discord between the civil and military establishment. That's a Western argument," said...
11:50 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Four days after the face off with Chinese troops ended at Raki Nulla in eastern Ladakh, there's no clarity in Delhi on just why it happened. Indian diplomats expect some of the fog will clear when External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid returns from Beijing. "It could have been a signal to India, that they wanted movement on the draft of the defence cooperation agreement they had handed over...
03:35 PM, May 10, 2013
With the status quo ante restored at Raki Nulla, it would seem India has had the better of China in the 20-day-long face-off. Going by ...
10:16 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: After three weeks of a standoff between India and China along the Line of Actual Control ended on Monday, speculation is rising that India agreed to demolish a border observation bunker. China had objected to the bunker in the Chumar region in southern Ladakh. But the Ministry of External Affairs has denied this allegation. Chinese troops have regularly infiltrated the region in the recent past. The India-China face-off...
09:29 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: There has been some relief for the government on the India-China border. The Chinese and Indian armies have withdrawn simultaneously from face-off point at the Daulat Beg Oldi sector in Ladakh. Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs say there were no talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese leaders and the agreement was reached at a diplomatic level. The procedure of withdrawal of troops of both...
08:59 AM, May 06, 2013
India's diplomatic efforts to get the Chinese to leave the patch of land in eastern Ladakh have so far reached a dead end. Intelligences sources tell CNN-IBN, the Chinese are unlikely to withdraw from eastern Ladakh soon. ...
10:46 PM, May 01, 2013
Leh/New Delhi: India has decided not to up the ante against China even after the neighbouring country's troops reportedly erected another tent at Raki Nullah in eastern Ladakh. The standoff between the two countries has now entered the third week. However, the annual May 1 border personnel meeting may be used by India to bring up the issue of continued Chinese presence in Raki Nullah. It appears the intrusion is...
08:34 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Balasore: A fire broke out in Chandipur's ammunition depot in Odisha early Monday morning. The fire broke out at 4 am in the ammunition testing centre of the Proof and Experimental Establishment or PXE. "The fire triggered explosions as it erupted in the magazine store of the Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE) where shells and ammunition of different capacities and sizes are stored for test," Officer In-Charge of Chandipur police...
08:08 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: With no let-up in the tension following China's border incursion into Leh, senior government officials have now told CNN-IBN that the entire situation could have been handled better. CNN-IBN's Strategic Affairs Editor Surya Gangadharan takes a look at what steps could have been taken: The Chinese camp should have been surrounded and the supply line behind them should have been cut off. This would have prevented them being...
02:37 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Government appears to be banking solely on the diplomatic option to to resolve the deadlock at Rakki Nullah in Daulat Beg Oldi with the high level China Study Group comprising the NSA, Foreign Secretary, Defence Secretary and service chiefs driving thinking on the issue. Sources indicate there were no plans for a third flag level meeting. Sources also admitted they haven't yet figured out what China's intentions were...
12:47 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: Even as two flag meetings with China over the issue of Chinese troop incursions in Ladakh failed, India is trying for another one. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said he was hopeful that the impasse will end. "Flag meetings have taken place. More will take place. The Army will judge. There is a mechanism that we have set to make military personnel solve such issues. I am sure...
09:57 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: There is no let up in tension at the India, China border with China violating Indian airspace and incursions into Ladakh. Army sources said that two Chinese helicopters violated the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on April 21. The Chinese choppers entered the Indian airspace on April 21 and hovered over the area for quite sometime and returned after dropping some food cans, cigarette packets and notes written...
09:27 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: India and China appear deadlocked on the issue of Chinese troop incursions in Ladakh and after two failed flag meetings, India is trying for another one. Meanwhile, Beijing wants Delhi to stop infrastructure development in the area. China has pitched its demands high insisting that India dismantle fortified positions in Ladakh and stop what it calls aggressive patrolling. India says dismantling infrastructure is not an option and there...
07:20 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday the latest incursion by China stemmed from "differences over alignment of Line of Actual Control (LAC)". The Ministry stressed that the issue will be resolved peacefully with neighbouring country on the "basis of agreements". Chinese helicopters flew over Depsang in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in Ladakh on April 15, the same night a platoon-strength contingent of Chinese Army came...
03:36 PM, Apr 23, 2013
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