Yangtse clash spells danger for Xi Jinping's new term

This month's clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers at Yangtse in Arunachal Pradesh, weeks after President Xi Jinping began his unprecedented new five-year term, spells danger of 2023 too ending......

How UPA Govt Failed To Honour Sam Manekshaw

'We failed as a country because those who should have been there to say goodbye did not show up.' IMAGE: Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw died of pneumonia at the military hospital in Wellington on......

'A lot has been done between India and the US in the last two years than it was done before'

'With Trump, the relationship was very transactional, whereas with President Biden it is very structured.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi waves to supporters as he arrives at the Lotte New......

As India watches, China grows powerful in Sri Lanka

Xi Jinping is winning the war without firing a shot in Sri Lanka, observes Colonel R Hariharan (retd). IMAGE: Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, right, bumps fists with China's State......

Soon, Chinese smokers will puff on Indian tobacco

The revival of the phytosanitary protocol with China is expected to boost tobacco exports to China and prove economically beneficial to Indian farmers. Hemmed in by increasingly restrictive......

China imports 11% more crude oil in 2008

China, the world's second biggest oil consumer, imported 11 per cent more crude oil at 90.53 million tons in the first half of 2008 than a year earlier, the customs administration said. The......

Volkswagen to recall 1,950 cars in China

Scandal-hit German carmaker Volkswagen on Monday said it will recall 1,950 diesel vehicles in China to rectify engine software that cheats on emissions tests, following warnings from China's top......

China's foreign trade declines, forex reserves drop to record low

On August 11, the central bank devalued the yuan by about 2 per cent against the US dollar, the biggest one-day currency devaluation in nearly two decades. China on Tuesday said its foreign trade......