Beijing: Skyscrapers in Beijing disappeared into the haze and air quality plummeted as China’s capital was enveloped in a dust storm and heavy pollution on Friday. Concentrations of the tiny PM2.5 particles that can reach deep into the lungs and bloodstream entered a dangerous range on
New Delhi: India’s conflict with China and Pakistan “could spillover with repercussions that may require immediate” attention of the United States, an annual American intelligence threat assessment released on Thursday said. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines submitted the assessment to the United States Congress during
New Delhi: After external affairs minister S. Jaishankar said that India cannot pick a fight with China because the latter has a bigger economy, military veterans have accused the Narendra Modi government of having a “defeatist attitude” and “bowing down to a bully”. In a podcast
Washington: President Joe Biden has said that he expects to speak with China's president, Xi Jinping, about what the United States says was a Chinese spy balloon that a US fighter jet shot down early this month after it transited the United States. "We are not
Washington: The political uproar over a suspected Chinese spy balloon drifting over the United States did not just derail a planned visit to Beijing by the top US diplomat, it also threatens to upset attempts by both countries to steady an increasingly rocky relationship. The reaction
Washington: A suspected Chinese spy balloon has been flying over the United States for a couple of days, US officials said, in what would be a brazen act just days ahead of a planned trip to Beijing by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Fighter jets
New Delhi: India proposed 5.94 trillion rupees ($72.6 billion) in defence spending for the 2023-24 financial year, 13 per cent up from the previous period’s initial estimates, aiming to add more fighter jets and roads along its tense border with China. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated
Washington: The White House is launching a partnership with India on Tuesday that President Joe Biden hopes will help the countries compete against China on military equipment, semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI). Washington wants to deploy more Western mobile phone networks in the subcontinent to counter
Tokyo: Japan and NATO must "remain united and firm" in the face of security threats posed by China, North Korea and Russia’s war in Ukraine, Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday in Tokyo. Stoltenberg, secretary general of the European and North American military alliance, warned that Beijing was
Srinagar: Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi sounding a warning on China has termed as dangerous the approach being adopted by the Modi-led Indian government over what he said Beijing’s control of around 2,000 sq km of territory in Ladakh. Rahul Gandhi speaking at a press