Day: June 17, 2020

Villagers want 'China mukku' area in their town renamed

Chinese official media highlights PLA casualties at Galwan clash without mentioning numbers

9:11 pm June 17, 2020

Beijing: China may have officially maintained a steady silence on the casualties suffered by its troops in the clashes with the Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley but editorials in the state-run dailies acknowledged the PLA fatalities while calling for disengagement to avert a border war. China’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday parried all questions related to the casualties suffered by the […]

Military talks with China have no link with "any extraneous issue": India

Galwan Valley incident will have serious impact on bilateral ties: India to China

9:06 pm June 17, 2020

New Delhi: India on Wednesday delivered a strong message to China that the “unprecedented” incident in the Galwan Valley will have a “serious impact” on the bilateral relationship and held the “pre-meditated” action by Chinese army directly responsible for the violence that left 20 Indian Army personnel dead. In a telephonic conversation, External Affairs Minister Jaishankar conveyed to his Chinese counterpart Wang Wi […]

AAP: Power Minister Satyendar Jain accepts Goa counterpart's 'challenge' for debating Delhi's electricity model

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain tests COVID-19 positive: Official

9:00 pm June 17, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to a hospital here following high fever, a senior official said. The 55-year-old minister was brought to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) in the early hours of Tuesday and was administered a test for the novel coronavirus infection […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Anger against China spills on to streets in Gujarat

8:47 pm June 17, 2020

Ahmedabad: The death of 20 Indian soldiers along the LAC in Ladakh on Wednesday triggered protests across Gujarat with people breaking China-made electronic gadgets and calling for boycott of Chinese products. Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed in a fierce clash with the Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh […]

Delhi almost covers monsoon rain-deficit

Monsoon likely to reach Delhi by June 22-23, says IMD

8:41 pm June 17, 2020

New Delhi: In some good news for Delhiites, the India Meteorological Department on Wednesday said the monsoon is likely to reach the national capital three to four days earlier than the usual date of June 27. Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the regional forecasting centre of the IMD, said that a cyclonic circulation over West […]