India China standoff: The meeting is taking place in the backdrop of the escalating tension between the two sides after the Galwan Valley clashes on June 15, the most serious cross-border confrontation in the last 45 years.
India has already mobilised fighter jets and sent thousands of additional troops to forward locations along the border with China after June 15.
On June 15, the worst violence on the India-China border since 1967 claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers. The clash occurred in the Galwan Valley, which hasn’t been a site of conflict since 1962.
Tension prevails at Ladakh LAC where Indian and Chinese forces are standing eye-to-eye. On June 15, there was a scuffle between Indian and Chinese forces in which 20 Indian soldiers attained martyrdom. 43 Chinese soldiers were eliminated.
Similar financial powers were given to the armed forces after the Uri attack and the Balakot aerial strikes against Pakistan. The requirement of granting this power again to the forces was felt by the government after the Chinese aggression in Eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting with the top brass of the Indian armed forces on Sunday. The meeting was attended by Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, Army Chief Gen MM Naravane, Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh and Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria.
Uttar Pradesh police officials stopped ten young boys from Aligarh who were on their way to China to avenge the soldiers' deaths. When the cops stopped them and questioned them they said they wanted to teach China a lesson for killing our soldiers.
US President Donald Trump on India-China Galwan Valley clash said, "It's a very tough situation. We are talking to India, we're talking to China. They have got a big problem there.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), responding to China's claims on the events in the Galwan valley area, on Saturday said the Indian side has never undertaken any actions across the Line of Actual Control (LAC). "The Indian side has never undertaken any actions across the LAC.
Tension prevails at LAC still as Indian and Chinese troops stand eye-to-eye. Know how situation is turning against China.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), responding to China's claims made late last night on the events in the Galwan valley area, today said the Indian side has never undertaken any actions across the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
A government school in Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur district will be named after Sepoy Ankush Thakur who laid down his life in a face-off with China in Ladakh's Galwan valley, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Saturday.
Within hours after the deadly Indo-China clash at the Galwan valley, India completed construction of a strategically important bridge over the Galwan river in eastern Ladakh, government sources said.
The Government of India in a statement on Friday's All-Party Meeting (APM) led by PM Modi on the Indo-China Ladakh stand-off reiterated India's stand that it will not allow unilateral change of the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Home Minister Amit Shah has lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for resorting to petty politics instead of standing in solidarity when 20 Indian soldiers were martyred in the Indo-China clash.
The Indian Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria paid tribute to 20 security personnel who lost their lives in Galwan Valley clash. "Please join me in paying tribute to Colonel Santosh Babu and his brave men who made the sacrifice while de
Indian Air Force chief Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria on Saturday said they are well prepared and suitably deployed to respond to any contingency.
The US on Friday condoled the death of Indian soldiers, killed in a violent face-off with Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh, and said their bravery will not be forgotten.
Congress leader Husain Dalwai on June 19 claimed that no one died from China's side in the violent dispute in Ladakh's Galwan Valley on Jun 15-16.
Amid tension at border region Indian attack helicoptors spotted petrolling Ladakh-Leh region.
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