Arunachal Pradesh – Asia Times

China abduction claims spark political uproar in India

by Anil Sharma January 24, 2022January 24, 2022

JAIPUR – The alleged abduction of a teenage boy by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has kicked off a political storm in India, one that threatens to spark a new round of border tensions between the two Asian giants. The 17-year-old boy from Arunachal Pradesh, a state in northeast India, had been missing since January […]

India, South Asia

India’s Arunachal drops permanent resident issue

by Suraj Gogoi March 1, 2019February 18, 2020

A file photo of a conference room used for meetings between Indian and Chinese military commanders in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, South Asia

India’s inactive approach to border infrastructure continues

by Prakash Katoch November 26, 2018

Cancer patients rest on beds at Dr Bhubaneswar Borooah Cancer Institute and research centre in Guwahati in Assam. Photo: AFP

India, South Asia, World

India’s medical migrants travel vast distances for cancer care

by Sanskrita Bharadwaj and Disha Shetty September 19, 2018February 18, 2020

Indian activists protest outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi in July 2017 during border tensions between the countries. Photo: AFP / Money Sharma

China, India, Israel, Middle East, Russia, South Asia, World

India wants drones to monitor Himalayan border with China

by Bertil Lintner September 4, 2018February 18, 2020

Border crossing in Shantipur, Sadiya, India. Photo: Suraj Gogoi

India, South Asia

NRC muddle: a vigilante student union and India’s borderlands

by Suraj Gogoi August 23, 2018

A hydroelectricity producing dam in Northeast India. Photo: NEEPCO

India, South Asia

Questions raised after dam floods villages in northeast

by Pranab Doley and Suraj Gogoi August 17, 2018February 18, 2020

Junior Home Minister, Kiren Rijiju. Photo: AFP / Prakash Singh

China, India, Pakistan, South Asia, World

The Indian government’s chicanery over strategic railways

by Prakash Katoch July 3, 2018

Photo: AFP/John MacDougall

AT Finance, Beijing, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, South Korea, Vietnam, Wuhan

China intrudes into Arunachal, but Indian Foreign Ministry in denial

by Prakash Katoch June 26, 2018June 26, 2018

Photo: Reuters

Bangladesh, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, India, South Asia, World

Chinese mining boom near India border a new flashpoint?

by Asia Times staff May 22, 2018February 18, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on as he and his wife Peng Liyuan welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a banquet during the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, Fujian province, on September 4, 2017. Photo: AFP

Beijing, Bhutan, China, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia

Chinese military buildup in Doklam threatens regional peace

by Prakash Katoch February 22, 2018

Men from India's Erikala tribe unload bamboo from the Nalamalla forest, at their hamlet at Lingala Mandal in Mahbubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh. The Erikala tribals earn their livelihood mainly by making bamboo products. Photo: AFP

AT Finance, China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, World

Fresh focus on bamboo to revive India’s rural economy

by Kanchan Srivastava February 13, 2018February 18, 2020

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (seated center) at the signing of the Nagaland peace accord in 2015. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

India, South Asia, World

India’s Naga insurgency battles neoliberal capitalism

by Samrat February 12, 2018February 12, 2018

A surface-to-surface Agni-5 missile is displayed at a parade in New Delhi. Photo: Reuters / B Mathur

Beijing, China, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, World

China wary of India’s strategic potential

by Manoj Joshi January 24, 2018

China, European Union, India, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, World

The Hyderabad connection to India’s 1962 war with China

by Mohan Guruswamy November 18, 2017

Representational image. Photo: Economic Times

India, South Asia

Air force chopper goes missing

by Asia Times staff July 5, 2017February 18, 2020

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at a BRICS summit in Goa on October 16, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, India, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Shanghai, South Asia, World

Understanding India’s response to China’s Belt and Road

by Vinay Kaura June 10, 2017June 10, 2017

Indian SU-30 fighter jet. Photo: Defense Forum India

China, India, South Asia

Indian fighter jet goes missing over territory disputed by China

by Asia Unhedged May 23, 2017February 18, 2020

The Dalai Lama waters a plant during his visit to Tawang district in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India, on April 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Anuwar Hazarika

AT Finance, Beijing, China, India, Iran, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, World

The highway to Tawang: South Tibet border dispute drags on

by Sabena Siddiqui April 26, 2017

Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh is the largest monastery in India. It was founded near the small town of the same name in the northwestern part of Arunachal Pradesh, India by Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso in 1680-1681 in accordance with the wishes of the 5th Dalai Lama. The monastery belongs to the Gelug school and has a religious association with Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, which continued during the period of British rule. It is very close to the Tibetan border, in the valley of the Tawang-chu which flows down from Tibet. Photo: Vikramjit Kakati/Wikimedia Commons

AT Finance, China, India, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Asia, Vietnam

The Dalai Lama factor in Sino-Indian relations

by Shashi Tharoor April 11, 2017April 11, 2017