CHUSHUL, India: Lines on a map once meant little to India's Tibetan herders of the high Himalayas, expertly guiding their goats through even the harshest winters to pastures on age-old seasonal routes. That stopped in 2020, after troops from nuclear-armed rivals India and China clashed in
NEW YORK: Four United States college instructors teaching in China were stabbed in broad daylight while visiting a public park, The Guardian reported on Tuesday citing officials in the US. According to a statement by Jonathan Brand, president of Iowa's Cornell College, the tutors of the
MUMBAI: India will focus on finding solutions to the border issues with China that has long strained ties between the neighbouring countries, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday after assuming charge for a second straight term. India and China share a 3,800 km (2,400
UNITED NATIONS: Russia and China, which hold veto powers in the UN Security Council, raised concerns with a US draft resolution that would back a proposal - outlined by President Joe Biden - for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian fighters Hamas. The council's only Arab
BEIJING: Ukraine's first deputy foreign minister visited China on Wednesday and urged it to send a delegation to a planned summit on Ukraine this month in Switzerland, in the apparent hope it was still possible to persuade China to attend. Russia has not been invited to
BEIJING: China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, overcoming a key hurdle in its landmark mission to retrieve the world's first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere. The landing elevates China's space power status in a
SINGAPORE: China will not allow any country or force to create war or chaos in the Asia-Pacific, its defence minister said, warning that there were “limits” to Beijing’s restraint on the South China Sea and over the deployment of ballistic missiles in the region. In a
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday reiterated its call for India to stop its ongoing campaign to suppress political activists and intimidate the Kashmiri public in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. “The headquarters of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Srinagar also remains sealed. India must
BEIJING: China wants to work with Arab nations to resolve hot spot issues in ways conducive to upholding fairness, justice and achieving long-term peace and stability, President Xi Jinping said in a speech on Thursday that also highlighted the Gaza crisis. China is seeking to strengthen
By Touqir Hussain Thanks to the seductive power of electronic and social media, the visuals now tend to overwhelm our mind and seize its ability to look beyond. Image has become reality. Opinion is moving faster than knowledge, and speculation has become more newsworthy than analysis. President