The Indian Army has begun a rigourous verification process to monitor the withdrawal of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh even as a complicated disengagement plan moved forward in Hot Springs and Gogra, where the two armies are working […]
Karnataka, Telangana could be country’s new Covid-19 hotspots
Telangana and Karnataka seem set to become the next hotspots in the country, with the highest growth rate of cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and high positivity rates, according to HT’s analysis. Three factors — high growth rate of cases, high positivity rate, and at least one large urban […]
US notes de-escalation in Ladakh but calls for punitive ‘costs’ to rein in China
The United States took note Monday of the de-escalation efforts at the India-China border but leery of China’s “aggressive behavior” against minorities at home, neighbours in the region and in cyberspace generally, it said “imposing costs” on Beijing was the only way to stop it. There has been a calibrated […]
TikTok says it will exit Hong Kong market within days
TikTok will exit the Hong Kong market within days, a spokesman told Reuters late on Monday, as other technology companies including Facebook Inc have suspended processing government requests for user data in the region. The short form video app owned by China-based ByteDance has made the decision to exit the […]
With over 22,000 new Covid-19 cases and 467 deaths, India’s tally at 7.19 lakh
India, the world’s third worst-hit country, recorded more than 22,000 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 467 deaths between Monday and Tuesday morning, Union health ministry’s data showed. The tally now stands at 719,665 after the 22,252 fresh infections in a single day. The number of Covid-19 cases in India […]
For Ladakh stand-off, how India readied its fleet of Apache attack choppers
India fast-tracked delivery of the last batch of the US-built Apache attack choppers after the May 5 stand-off with China in eastern Ladakh to be able to ramp up their presence along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The last batch of five choppers arrived in India last month after the central […]
Phone call at 8.45 am, then a video call: The backstory of the PLA’s pullback
India will adopt a cautious approach, cognizant of the risk of an “accident”, to the limited withdrawal by China’s People’s Liberation Army soldiers who had set off the stand-off at four locations in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley and Pangong Lake. PLA has started troop withdrawal from the stand-off sites at […]
Before PLA took a step back, a video call between NSA Doval and China’s Yi
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councilor Wang Yi over video call on Sunday, right before soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army were reported to have taken the first few steps to move back from the standoff points in the Galwan area, people […]
‘Progress on frontline troops to disengage’: China on talks with India
China on Monday said “progress” had been made between the two militaries to disengage and ease tension along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), six days after commander-level talks took place to cool the situation in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley area. The Chinese foreign ministry did not elaborate on the details of […]
Ennio Morricone, Oscar-winning music composer, dies at 91
ROME: Ennio Morricone, whose scores for movies such as “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, “The Mission” and “Cinema Paradiso” made him one of the world`s most famous and prolific screen composers, has died, ANSA news agency said on Monday. He was 91. ANSA said Morricone, who won two […]
India’s Covid-19 tally surges past 6.97 lakh, death toll at 19,693
The Union health ministry on Monday reported there were 24,248 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 425 deaths in the last 14 hours, pushing the overall tally to 697,413. India had on Sunday overtaken Russia to become the third-most affected country globally in terms of the numbers of […]
‘This is how Maoists operate’: Cop after bombs found at UP gangster’s house
Vikas Dubey, head of the gang that laid a trap for the police team in Kanpur, operated like Maoists, a senior police officer said after huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered from his house. “A huge cache of arms and ammunition recovered from the residence of Vikas Dubey, […]
Gandhi lists 3 potential case studies at Harvard. It’s a dig at the Centre
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again targeted the Narendra Modi government, calling its demonetisation policy and implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) failures. He also said that these policies along with the government’s failure in handling of the coronavirus situation will be studied by the Harvard Business School. […]
Coronavirus is airborne, say 239 experts
Amid a frightening rise in new Covid-19 cluster infections, 239 experts have written an open letter to the WHO, outlining evidence showing that smaller airborne particles containing the virus can infect people, The New York Times reported on Sunday. Whether carried aloft by large droplets that zoom through the air […]
‘Not intimidated’: US Navy tweets sharp comeback to China on ‘aircraft carrier killer’
The United States Navy took a jibe at China after a news report claimed that Beijing has a wide selection of anti-aircraft carrier weapons and the South China Sea is fully within grasp of the Chinese army. The US Navy said that it is “not intimidated”. “China has a wide […]