The decision was taken during the annual 19th round of boundary talks in Beijing between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi.
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs estimates that there are at least 150,000 homeless children wandering the country's cities, most from underdeveloped rural areas.
'It was India's good fortune to have a Vajpayee lead the government at this crucial moment in history.' 'By taking the N-decision he saved future generations of Indians from being 'Kosovoed' or 'Iraqed',' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A substantial fluctuation is likely because for a long period gold has moved in a narrow range of $ 50-60 and at higher levels short positions were built.
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a look at the devastation caused by the twin blasts reportedly caused by combustible and explosive goods stored in containers at a warehouse in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin
'Galbraith had a powerful ally in Washington -- not as blunt and direct as the ambassador -- but committed to see Krishna Menon go.' 'This was President Kennedy himself.'
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
Qiang Wei, the head of Beijing Olympic Security Co-ordination Group, said the 2008 Olympics security budget would be unveiled shortly
The police recovered drugs worth $120,000 from the gang, led by a 47-year-old woman named Tan Guiqin.
Sleep has been a casualty for Vijay Shekhar Sharma, whose wallet company Paytm has a user base of close to 150 million and is working 20 hours a day.
India, China and Korea emerge as real hi-tech centres that can challenge the US 'hegemony' in the field of technology, an expert in the field has said.
Four volunteers were injected with a SARS vaccine at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing on Saturday.
London's stunning victory was warmly received in China, hosts of the 2008 Games in Beijing, who also told the British capital to expect a large Chinese audience.
'What has changed is the desperation of Pakistan proxies and the separatists in their failure to foment violence and civilian casualties in Kashmir.'
A Chinese primary school teacher stabbed four children to death and wounded 12 pupils and four colleagues last week in central China's Hunan province.
The Stilwell Road, connecting China's Yunnan province to Myanmar and India, was built during World War II.
Their most important finding is a small-molecule compound that can occupy a gap in a human cell ordinarily attacked by the HIV virus, experts from the University of Science and Technology of China were quoted as saying in China Youth Daily.
Japanese electronics giant Sony is shifting its focus from India to China in view of its 'worsening' performance in India, the Chinese media reported on Thursday.
Tillerson said he hoped that at some point the North Koreans will begin to understand that the US would like to sit and have a dialogue with them.
The next manned space flight is scheduled for 2005 and will have more than one astronaut aboard.
Another sobering number is that the total Chinese investment in India in the past 10 years amounts to $400 million.
'In countries like Japan, one out of 11.7 tests turns out to be positive, which is among the highest in the world. Italy tests 6.7 persons for one positive test while the USA tests 5.3 persons and the United Kingdom 3.4'
The 64 people missing after a massive landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province were presumed dead on Sunday, after rescuers failed to detect life at the site four days after they were buried under about 1 million cubic metres of mud.
Real Madrid's lacklustre show and the absence of David Beckham may have cost the team some of its fans in China.
Notwithstanding the high growth rate China is witnessing, the Communist nation is likely to set a gross domestic product target of less than eight per cent in 2005 to enable a soft landing.
Basit was called in by Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar to convey India's strong views on the incident, the external affairs ministry said.
In a rare public admission of Pakistani links to militancy in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang province, the official media in Beijing said the co-founder of the Al Qaeda linked East Turkestan Islamic Movement was indoctrinated in a madarasa in that country.
'The return of India to its own civilisational values can never endanger freedoms as pluralism is the bedrock of our culture,' assert Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd) and Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
China's economy is expected to grow 9.4 per cent this year and plummet to 8.9 per cent next year, a government think-tank has forecast.
'He still has to deal with party norms and traditions and has been careful to follow the order of seniority,' points out Claude Arpi.
16 athletes from nine sporting disciplines failed doping tests in 2003.
Funding Indian start-ups has slowed down.
'India does not have the wherewithal to successfully manage a full blown covid-19 crisis,' warns Vivek Gumaste.
A round-up of our favourite photographs from the week gone by.
'This is a critical story that Modi seems to grasp far better -- almost instinctively -- in comparison with most of his predecessors as prime ministers,' notes M K Bhadrakumar.
work on the proposed custom station in the Chumthang belt, the gateway to Chinese Tibet, has already begun, says the Daily Times.
In Mehreen Amin's gym, Kashmiri girls who earlier had no access to female trainers, are 'gymming' their way to fitness.
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