The Assam Rifles is a CAPF under the administrative control of the Union home ministry while its operational control is with the defence ministry. (Photo via special arrangement.)India shares land borders with Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan...
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, skipped the G20 summit that was held in New Delhi recently. This is something he hasn’t done since taking over the presidency of China, in 2012. Even during the Covid-19 pandemic, he attended the summit virtua...
The latest “standard map” China released showing parts of disputed and maritime territories as Chinese. (Photo: China Daily)New Delhi: Hours after India lodged strong protest, Malaysia, Taiwan, and the Philippines have rejected China&rsqu...
New Delhi: Days before the G20 summit in which the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, is expected to visit the Indian capital, Beijing has released its official “standard map” of the People’s Republic of China showing parts of Indi...
This two-photo combination shows an under-construction Chinese village, in 2019, and the fully built village, in 2021, inside Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh. (Photo: Maxar/Twitter)New Delhi: China is rapidly raising border settlements all alon...
The red circles in this map roughly shows the areas where Indian and Chinese troops had skirmishes between 2020 and 2021 in eastern Ladakh. (CIA map via Wikipedia) New Delhi: The Indian Army has rejected China’s demand for a buffer zone i...
The red pin in this Google Earth satellite image shows the Niti pass. The white line is the LAC.New Delhi: China has now started building up pressure on India in the middle sector on the disputed border between the two countries, which is also known ...
Map showing location of Depsang Plains. The red line on the left depicts the line of control (LoC) with Pakistan and the same on the right depicts the line of actual control (LAC) with China. (Map not to scale)New Delhi: China has laid down its terms...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with troops at a forward position during the 1962 India-China war.Dissecting Claude Arpi’s 1962 India-China war claimsDuring my studies on the hitherto obscure aspects of the 1962 India-China war, particularly wi...
An artillery gun in action during Exercise Buland Bharat. (Photo: Indian Army) New Delhi: The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force recently concluded a monthlong joint combat exercise in the northeast with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the ...