Cariappa’s frequent interventions in what the PM saw as non-military topics often led to clashes, leading to a series of pointed letters that revealed a deep divide between India’s first PM and first Army general
Because of a clear power differential favouring China, and the fact that India can’t wish away its biggest neighbour and one of its biggest economic partners, one can understand why New Delhi is now trying a softer approach
In riding roughshod over partners such as Australia, India, Japan and South Korea on trade, and by threatening to weaponise security ties, Trump has forced them both to strengthen bonds with one another and to reduce tensions with China
The territorial-cum-border dispute that goes back to the birth of India and China as independent nations is at the core of the bilateral security dissonance
Nehru described rumours that Indian soldiers were fighting unarmed and barefoot as "extraordinary". "They had wollen uniforms, good boots, three blankets -- later four -- and full winter clothing"
“The main issue right now is patrolling—how both sides patrol up to the Line of Actual Control. The patrolling arrangements after 2020 have been disturbed,” he stated, referring to the Galwan clash at the LAC four years ago.
Beijing is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, first propounded in the Sino-Indian Agreement of 1954. Panchsheel, as India called it, was a pillar of the Nehruvian vision of the world, until it was shattered by the 1962 War
Iran mission uses donations to buy 40 tonnes of medicine, unable to send them home
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A 40-tonne shipment of medicines bought by the Iranian embassy in India is stranded in New Delhi due to a damaged aircraft. The embassy is seeking alternative ways to deliver the urgently needed medicines, as pharmaceutical companies in Iran are under attack.
