Beijing: China plans to further strengthen its strategic transport network in sensitive border regions with India over the next five years to fortify its remote frontiers during the 15th Five-Year Plan beginning this year.One project involves building a 394 km...

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre not to remain stuck with British-era criteria on retirement age and service conditions of armed forces personnel, and consider constituting an expert committee to revisit the parameters of "highly skilled"...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that it is high time the regulations governing service conditions and retirement age of coast guard officers were revisited as the government cannot remain bound by frameworks conceived in the British era.A...

New Delhi: Hitting back at the Congress, the BJP on Wednesday accused India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of making repeated "territorial compromises" throughout his tenure and "redrawing" Bharat's borders forever.The BJP's criticism of Nehru comes in the backdrop...

Dharamsala (HP): The Central Tibetan Administration has commemorated the 86th anniversary of the enthronement of the 14th Dalai Lama with an official ceremony at McLeodganj, the headquarters of the de facto government-in-exile of Tibet, officials said on Monday.On February...

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Twelve people were killed on Wednesday when a store selling firecrackers exploded ⁠and caught fire in China's Hubei ⁠province, burning 50 square ‌metres of ​the premises, state broadcaster CCTV reported.The incident occurred at an unnamed retailer in the central...

Army troops and IAF helicopters continued their efforts for the fifth day on Tuesday to control a massive forest fire that broke out at Walong, a remote location at an altitude of 3,000 to 3,500 feet in Anjaw district...