'It is a breathtaking journey towards the Tibet border, especially since the Border Road Organisation has accomplished a fabulous feat in black-topping the road till the border.' 'One is left with a salute for the dauntless Indian soldiers who spend the winter in these majestic, though inhospitable areas (we were told that the temperature comes down to minus 40 in winter),' recounts Claude Arpi.
In the first high-level Sino-India contact since the once-in-a-decade leadership change in the ruling Communist Party of China, National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon arrived in Beijing on Sunday for wide-ranging talks on bilateral ties, including the vexed border issue.
Their differences notwithstanding, tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi on Tuesday said he would team up with estranged doubles partner Leander Paes in next year's Beijing Olympic Games.
Thousands of travelers began to fly in and out of mainland China as Beijing removed almost all of its border restrictions.
Carter was found to have taken the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Wednesday.
A powerful senatorial committee on Wednesday is set to consider a bipartisan resolution to recognise Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India, pushing back against China's military aggression to change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control.
Health data firm Airfinity estimates more than 5,000 people are probably dying each day from COVID-19 in China.
Beijing's heavily polluted haze turned murkier on Wednesday, evoking strong public criticism against the government's inability to rein state-owned oil firms for supplying 'bad quality' gasoline which is being used by over five million vehicles on city's roads.
The MEA said the two sides shared their perspectives on the matter in the talks held in a friendly and cordial atmosphere.
