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
Ten days and counting, that is how long the standoff between the Indian army and the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has lasted in Ladakh. The Chinese troops crossed into India's side of the LAC and they continue to hold those positions living in tents there. While both New Delhi and Beijing have tried to play down the issue, no resolution to the standoff is now casting a shadow on ...
01:00 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
CNN-IBN's International Affairs Editor Suhasini Haider spoke to Huang Jing, a political science professor at the National University of Singapore, who dismissed war as a possibility after a standoff between India and China. ...
09:56 AM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: It is still not clear whether the flag meeting India requested China to resolve the impasse will take place on Friday or not. But China does seem to be softening its stand and is talking about the need for friendly relations between neighbours. "I would also like to stress that China and India are neighbours. Since the border line is not drawn, problems of one kind or another...
08:21 AM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: India will increase the number of its troops if the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) enhances the strength of its soldiers in the Indian territory of Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in eastern Ladakh, government sources said on Thursday. All the formations of the Army from the Leh-based 14 Corps to the 3 Corps in Northeast deployed along the China border are also on alert to check any...
01:07 AM, Apr 26, 2013
The India, China stand off continued for the tenth day with no clarity whether the expected flag meet will take place on Friday over Chinese incursions. ...
10:30 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Beijing: Toning down its rhetoric on incursion, China on Thursday counselled patience saying favourable conditions should be created for the two countries to solve the issue through friendly consolations. At separate media briefings, both the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Defence Ministry maintained that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had not intruded into India and had not caused any "provocation". Urging the media to be patient, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua...
09:06 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Beijing: Claiming that its troops or choppers have not caused any "provocation" or violated the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, China today said the incident will not affect bilateral ties or disrupt peace at the borders as both sides are trying to resolve it in a friendly manner. "I do not agree with your allegation that it is the Chinese side that has caused the provocation between the...
07:40 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Army Chief General Bikram Singh on Thursday briefed Defence Minister AK Antony on the Chinese incursion issue in Ladakh and the present situation there. After reviewing the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the Ladakh area with military commanders in the Northern Command, Gen Singh briefed the Defence Minister on the incursion issue on Thursday, Army officials said. The Army Chief had returned from Jammu and Kashmir on...
02:57 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: With Beijing sticking to its stand that its troops have not violated the Line of Actual Control (LAC), External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will be visiting China on May 9. Khurshid is hopeful the impasse would be resolved through dialogue and despite the failure of the last two flag meets, Delhi is seeking another one with Beijing. China, however, has yet not replied to India's demand for a...
12:07 PM, Apr 25, 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
Washington: The United States has said that it supports peaceful and bilateral resolution of boundary dispute between India and China. "The United States supports India and China working together to settle their boundary disputes bilaterally and peacefully, and that's what we've continued to urge throughout this," the State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters at his news conference on Wednesday. Ventrell was responding to question on the US position on...
06:36 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday wondered what New Delhi's response would have been had Pakistan intruded into Indian territory, and asked for a clear cut message to China. He was referring to the situation that has arisen in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) area in Ladakh, where the Chinese troops have set up their tented posts since April 15, 2013. "Had Pakistan intruded into the Indian...
05:24 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: With China sticking to its stand that its troops have not violated the Line of Actual Control, Army has told the Government about various military options that can be exercised to deal with the situation arising out of the intrusion in Ladakh. The Army has given its inputs on the incursion by Chinese troops to the National Security Advisor-headed China Study Group which includes the Secretaries of the...
09:50 PM, Apr 24, 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: There is no let up in tensions at the India-China border with China violating the Indian airspace and incursions into Ladakh. CNN-IBN has learnt from sources that the government is trying to hold another flag-meeting with China. Sources add that a possible date is under discussion, and the likely venue will be on the Chinese side in Spanggur Gap, Chushul. The two previous flagged meetings between both sides...
02:51 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: There is no let up in tensions at the India-China border with China violating the Indian airspace and incursions into Ladakh. CNN-IBN has learnt that the Chinese are objecting to the infrastructure build-up in Ladakh, especially roads and bridges. They also want Indian patrolling to stop before they move out. Local military commanders from India and China held talks on Tuesday to defuse the tension. Two previous flag...
08:48 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Terming the government's approach towards China as "very weak", BJP on Tuesday asked the Centre to spell out steps being taken to tackle the danger arising out of the Chinese troops' incursion in Ladakh. It said the government should tell the nation the truth about the issue and take the opposition also into confidence. "China's interference in India is very serious. The nation should be told the truth....
02:55 AM, Apr 24, 2013
