Doklam In Sikkim Sector

India should encourage Bhutan to ensure increase in the deployment of soldiers around Northern Doklam in the Sikkim sector to check activities of Chinese military in the sensitive region, a parliamentary panel has suggested in its draft report.

China does not want the crisis in Maldives to become another "flashpoint" between the two neighbours and is in touch with New Delhi over the political crisis, official sources in Beijing have told news agency Press Trust of India. The remarks came after US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday discussed the political tur...

India and China will hold the next round of border talks in New Delhi on Friday, the first after the 73-day-long military standoff between the two countries in Doklam in the Sikkim sector this summer.

Referring to the 1890 UK-China treaty, China today claimed it demarcated the Sikkim sector of the Sino-Indian border as it urged New Delhi to abide by its provisions, a day after Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made her maiden visit to the Nathu La post.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today said the 73-day standoff between India and China in Doklam ended after India withdrew its troops and asked New Delhi to "learn lessons" and prevent such incidents in future.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that a solution to the ongoing stand-off between India and China at Doklam would be found soon and hoped that Beijing would make a positive move in this regard. He was speaking at a function of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police or ITBP in New Delhi.

India is "behaving like a mature power" in tackling the Doklam standoff in the Sikkim sector and making China look like an adolescent throwing a "temper tantrum", a top American defence expert has said. India and China have been locked in a faceoff in Doklam for the last 50 days after Indian troops stopped the Chinese People's Liberation Army from ...

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday met her Bhutanese counterpart Damcho Dorji, who hoped that the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the Dokalam area of the Sikkim sector is resolved "peacefully and amicably".

India has increased operational readiness by sending more troops along the eastern border with China, sources said. The latter said that the army has also raised the "caution level" among army formations who are guarding the 1400-km border in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.

Expressing concern over the Doklam standoff between India and China, an influential US lawmaker has accused Beijing of taking provocative steps that have resulted in the escalation of tensions between the two Asian giants.

Notwithstanding the Doklam standoff, Chinese military analysts have said that India and China should sign a new boundary convention in the Sikkim sector to replace the 1890 agreement and make it more contemporary.

Indian artillery guns have not been shifted to their emplacements near the site of the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the disputed Doklam Plateau, a part of Bhutan, which is located East of Sikkim.

The India-China standoff at Doklam in the Sikkim sector is "not a very serious" issue, the Dalai Lama said today, stressing that the two countries have to live side by side.

Rejecting India's suggestion for a simultaneous withdrawal of troops to end the standoff at Doklam, China on Tuesday upped the ante, wondering what New Delhi would do if it "enters" Kalapani region in Uttarakhand or Kashmir.

In line with Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's stress on patience, restraint and diplomacy to resolve the Dokalam standoff, India on Friday refused to be drawn into a tit-for-tat with Beijing, saying New Delhi wanted peace and tranquillity at the border and would achieve this objective through diplomacy.

India should encourage Bhutan to ensure increase in the deployment of soldiers around Northern Doklam in the Sikkim sector to check activities of Chinese military in the sensitive region, a parliamentary panel has suggested in its draft report.

China does not want the crisis in Maldives to become another "flashpoint" between the two neighbours and is in touch with New Delhi over the political crisis, official sources in Beijing have told news agency Press Trust of India. The remarks came after US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday discussed the political tur...

India and China will hold the next round of border talks in New Delhi on Friday, the first after the 73-day-long military standoff between the two countries in Doklam in the Sikkim sector this summer.

Referring to the 1890 UK-China treaty, China today claimed it demarcated the Sikkim sector of the Sino-Indian border as it urged New Delhi to abide by its provisions, a day after Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made her maiden visit to the Nathu La post.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today said the 73-day standoff between India and China in Doklam ended after India withdrew its troops and asked New Delhi to "learn lessons" and prevent such incidents in future.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that a solution to the ongoing stand-off between India and China at Doklam would be found soon and hoped that Beijing would make a positive move in this regard. He was speaking at a function of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police or ITBP in New Delhi.

India is "behaving like a mature power" in tackling the Doklam standoff in the Sikkim sector and making China look like an adolescent throwing a "temper tantrum", a top American defence expert has said. India and China have been locked in a faceoff in Doklam for the last 50 days after Indian troops stopped the Chinese People's Liberation Army from ...

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday met her Bhutanese counterpart Damcho Dorji, who hoped that the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the Dokalam area of the Sikkim sector is resolved "peacefully and amicably".

India has increased operational readiness by sending more troops along the eastern border with China, sources said. The latter said that the army has also raised the "caution level" among army formations who are guarding the 1400-km border in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.

Expressing concern over the Doklam standoff between India and China, an influential US lawmaker has accused Beijing of taking provocative steps that have resulted in the escalation of tensions between the two Asian giants.

Notwithstanding the Doklam standoff, Chinese military analysts have said that India and China should sign a new boundary convention in the Sikkim sector to replace the 1890 agreement and make it more contemporary.

Indian artillery guns have not been shifted to their emplacements near the site of the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the disputed Doklam Plateau, a part of Bhutan, which is located East of Sikkim.

The India-China standoff at Doklam in the Sikkim sector is "not a very serious" issue, the Dalai Lama said today, stressing that the two countries have to live side by side.

Rejecting India's suggestion for a simultaneous withdrawal of troops to end the standoff at Doklam, China on Tuesday upped the ante, wondering what New Delhi would do if it "enters" Kalapani region in Uttarakhand or Kashmir.

In line with Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's stress on patience, restraint and diplomacy to resolve the Dokalam standoff, India on Friday refused to be drawn into a tit-for-tat with Beijing, saying New Delhi wanted peace and tranquillity at the border and would achieve this objective through diplomacy.