Tag: Doklam issue

Rahul Gandhi slams PM Modi on Doklam issue

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over reports claiming China has found an alternate route to Doklam. “In Doklam, it’s China season again. How will Modi Ji react this time? tweeted Gandhi attaching online new portal The Print’s story headlined – “China quietly and cleverly finds a new route to...

March 21, 2018

Directionless policy of PM Modi govt has led to disquiet at border: Congress

The Congress on Friday raised concerns over the “directionless policy” on national security of the Narendra Modi government which it said has led to a “disquiet border” on the eastern and western frontiers. “National Security is being endangered by the political actions of the Narendra Modi government. National security strategy cannot be centred on the...

January 20, 2018

Clear the air about Chinese build-up in Doklam region: Congress

The Congress on Thursday asked the government to come clear on alleged about fresh Chinese troops build-up in the Doklam region and asked it should specifically state whether some helipads or bunkers have been established or not. “MEA statement does not say a word about the alleged construction by Chinese Army as depicted in satellite...

January 19, 2018

Speaking up for government

The Modi government seems to have lost faith in BJP spokespersons. It’s increasingly turning to union ministers to brief the press, particularly when spin doctoring is required. Current favourites are Piyush Goyal, Nirmala Sitharaman and Smriti Irani. Every now and then, they abandon official work to do a political briefing which should be the domain...

October 25, 2017

Tillerson visiting India after outlining new strategic role

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has outlined a stronger strategic role for India, is visiting New Delhi, the State Department announced on Thursday. Tillerson will meet Indian leaders during the visit next week to discuss “further strengthening our strategic partnership and collaboration on security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region,” the State Department...

October 19, 2017

Rahul raises questions on Doklam issue in House panel meet

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday raised several questions with regard to recent reports of China getting engaged in construction activity in the Doklam area. He was taking part in a meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, which was briefed by Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar. The Committee is chaired by Congress MP...

October 18, 2017

The place to draw a line

As early as in 1962 the International Court of Justice in the Case Concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia v.Thailand), Merits (1962)declared: ‘When two countries establish a frontier between them, one of the primary objects is to achieve stability and finality. This is impossible if the line so established can, at any moment, and...

September 21, 2017

Post-Doklam, Nepal says it has moral responsibility to ensure peace

In the aftermath of the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops along the Sikkim sector of the international border, Nepal on Tuesday said that it is its moral responsibility to maintain peace. “We should pay tribute for peace and not for war,” Nepal’s Ambassador to India Deep Kumar Upadhyay said while delivering a talk on...

September 12, 2017

No ‘Doklam dividend’

At a point in time when satisfaction and relief was being expressed over the successful diplomatic resolution of the Sino-Indian stand-off at Doklam, the Chief of the Army Staff has emphasised the need to “keep the powder dry” ~ and reiterated the military’s theory that India must remain prepared to fight on two fronts. Since...

September 8, 2017

BRICS Summit kicks off; Xi, Modi display bonhomie

The BRICS Summit began here on Monday with a group photograph of leaders of the five countries and was preceded by a warm handshake between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who received the leaders of Brazil, Russia and South Africa ahead of the restricted meeting of the grouping. Modi was the...

September 4, 2017

Doklam disengagement

In a diplomatic victory, India and China have agreed to “disengage” from the standoff in Doklam on Bhutanese territory. On 28 August, the Ministry of External Affairs announced “expeditious disengagement of border personnel” at Doklam, signalling that the 74-day standoff in the disputed India-ChinaBhutan Trijunction has come to an end. India has always maintained that...

September 1, 2017

China’s carrot & stick

The tiny Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan was symbolically the ‘first’ country that Narendra Modi visited less than a month after he was sworn in as Prime Minister. With a prescient eye on checkmating China’s activism in geopolitical strategies, Modi had famously stated in Thimpu, “In the guarantee of happiness, it is important what kind of...

August 27, 2017

Mr Deuba in Delhi

Nepalese PM Sher Bahadur Deuba is on his way to visit India. He comes at a time when the Himalayan region is wracked with aggressive gesturing involving India and China, extended in some measure to Bhutan. Nepal has kept studiously aloof from the sharp exchanges between its neighbours but with the swirling debate on Doklam...

August 23, 2017

Indian government team to visit China border areas

Amidst a stand-off with China in the Doklam sector, a high-level government team is set to visit areas bordering China to assess the situation, informed sources said on Friday. The team will also review the facilities given to army and paramilitary personnel posted on the border with China. Security agencies have indicated a strong possibility...

August 18, 2017

No change in Chinese investment proposals: Home Ministry

Despite the ongoing Doklam crisis, the most serious military face-off between Indian and China in three decades, the Indian government has no plans to single out the investment proposals of Chinese firms, a Home Ministry official said on Thursday. “The clearance of al applications regarding investment proposals received is done on the basis of well-established...

August 18, 2017

Indo-Japan ties special, for global peace: Ashwani Kumar

Former Union law minister Ashwani Kumar on Wednesday hailed the Indo-Japan relationship, saying it had assumed a “very sharp, strategic dimension” and become an engagement for peace and stability not only in Asia but in the entire world. “We have seen what is happening in Doklam. We have seen what is happening in Pakistan. We...

August 17, 2017

Indian troops foil China’s incursion bid in Ladakh

Indian border guards on Tuesday frustrated an attempt by Chinese soldiers to enter Indian territory along the banks of famous Pangong lake in Ladakh resulting in stone pelting that caused minor injuries to people on both sides, officials said. Soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) tried to enter the Indian side in two areas–Finger...

August 15, 2017