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    Border Clash News Updates: China's claim over Galwan is not consistent with their previous position, says MEA

    20 Jun, 2020 | 11:22:51 PM IST
    Border Clash News Updates: China's claim over Galwan is not consistent with their previous position, says MEA
    In a series of tweets, the Ministry of External Affairs has clearly underlined the events that led to the face-off at the Galwan Valley.
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    11:22:50 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on what transpired at the all-party meet

    10:50:42 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Watch: How different LAC perceptions lead to frequent India-China skirmishes

    10:17:26 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Ready to deal with any situation along LAC in Ladakh: IAF Chief Bhadauria

    10:14:20 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Rise above petty politics, stand in solidarity with national interest: Amit Shah to Rahul Gandhi

    10:03:23 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Protest held against Chinese products outside OPPO factory in Greater Noida

    09:45:20 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Ladakh councillor held for 'highly objectionable' audio clip on India-China standoff

    08:37:47 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Chinese social media sites delete PM's speech, MEA spokesman's remarks on border crisis

    07:38:32 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Indian Army fully familiar with alignment of entire LAC: Ministry of External Affairs

    07:36:51 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    India, China will resolve differences through peaceful means: Foreign Ministry of Nepal

    07:00:59 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Ministry of External Affairs on the recent clash in Eastern Ladakh

    • Attempts of transgression by Chinese side were invariably met with appropriate response from India
    • Since early May, Chinese side has been hindering India's normal patrolling pattern in this area
    • Indian side has never undertaken any action across LAC; have been patrolling this area for long without any incident
    • Indian troops are fully familiar with alignment of LAC in all sectors of India-China border areas, including in Galwan Valley
    • We do not accept contention that India was unilaterally changing status quo; On contrary, we were maintaining it
    06:34:41 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    20 soldiers have lost their lives and the BJP government is saying that they have not captured our land and they are speaking the same language as China: Sanjay Singh, AAP

    06:19:40 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Randeep Surjewala on the statement from PMO

    05:34:38 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Tibetan Youth Congress members hold anti-China protest in Siliguri

    05:05:19 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    We are confident that India & China will resolve their differences peacefully: Nepal

    04:41:25 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    School to be named in Himachal after Sepoy Ankush Thakur killed in Galwan valley

    04:13:12 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    PM's remarks on Ladakh in sync with foreign ministerial conversation

    India made it clear to China on Wednesday that the Galwan will have a “serious impact on the bilateral relationship” unless Beijing takes “corrective” measures. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar conveyed this strong message to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
    03:41:51 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Congress demoralising Army with limited knowledge: Nadda

    "When our Army is deployed at Galwan, Congress leaders are tweeting and breaking down their morale. They are asking why soldiers went unarmed. This exposes their limited knowledge. Are they not aware of international agreements?" Nadda said.
    03:37:08 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    UP STF personnel asked to remove Chinese apps from mobiles

    The order circulating in the social media lists 52 Chinese apps including Tiktok, UC Browser and Shareit
    03:06:42 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    IAF is capable of controlling any contingency: Former Air Marshal RK Sharma

    02:56:49 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Controversy being created: PMO issues clarification over Modi's comments that no one entered Indian territory

    • Attempts being made to give mischievous interpretation to PM's remarks at the all-party meeting, PMO clarifies
    • The statement comes after Rahul Gandhi claimed that India "surrendered to the Chinese aggression"
    • PMO, in a statement, said that the PM was clear that India would respond firmly to any attempts to transgress the LAC
    • In fact, he specifically emphasized that in contrast to the past neglect of such challenges, Indian forces now decisively counter any violations of LAC.
    • PM had said that Chinese troops didn't intrude into the Indian territory
    02:12:21 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Words of PM that those who tried to transgress were taught befitting lesson by our brave sons succinctly summed up ethos of armed forces: PMO

    02:11:07 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    PMO on all-party meet

    02:00:48 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Indian Army Sources

    01:51:20 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Government of India statement on yesterday’s All-Party meeting.

    01:24:11 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    We should not bring issues like boycott when we are discussing very grave matters: Chidambaram

    01:17:17 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    MNS stages protest over Chinese signboard in Thane

    • Workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena staged a protest at a construction site in Thane, over a signboard put up in Chinese. Over 20 MNS workers gathered at a construction site in Balkum area in Thane on Friday evening. The protest was against a China-based company, which had put up a signboard in Chinese at the site, an MNS worker said.
    01:07:29 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Chidambaram turns up heat on govt

    12:54:34 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Chidambaram questions Modi

    • "Prime Minister said there is no foreigner (meaning Chinese) in Indian territory. If this is true, what was the fuss about May 5-6? Why was there a fight between troops on June 16-17? Why did India lose 20 lives?" Chidambaram asked. Quoting foreign minister S Jaishankar, he asked if no Chinese troops had crossed the LAC into Indian territory, why did the foreign minister's statement refer to "restoration of status quo ante"?
    Chidambaram questions Modi
    12:15:56 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    Centre must respond to China's Galwan Valley claim: Shiv Sena

    • Shiv Sena deputy leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Saturday said the Centre must respond to China's claim that the sovereignty over the Galwan Valley area in Ladakh belonged to it.
    • Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed in the clashes with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night. It was the biggest military confrontation between India and China in over five decades.
    • After India trashed the Chinese Army's claim of sovereignty over the Galwan Valley and asked Beijing to confine its activities to its side of the LAC, China's foreign ministry on Friday claimed that the Galwan Valley was on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control.
    • Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Friday asserted that neither is anyone inside India's territory nor has any of its posts been captured.
    12:06:16 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    I pay homage to soldiers who sacrificed their lives for country

    - Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India

    12:17:55 PM IST, 20 June 2020

    PM hails bravery of Bihar Regiment soldiers

    11:34:38 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    PLA instigated most violent clash between India-China since 1962 just to grab territory: American Senator

    • China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) initiated one of the most violent clashes with India, since the two countries went to war in1962, just for the sake of grabbing land territory, according to a top American Senator.
    • Mitch McConnell, US Senate Majority Leader during a foreign policy speech on the floor of the House on Thursday said: "On land, for the sake of grabbing territory, the PLA appears to have instigated the most violent clash between China and India since those nations went to war in 1962."
    • McConnell further said, "Needless to say, the rest of the world has watched with grave concern this violent exchange between two nuclear states. We are encouraging de-escalation and hoping for peace."
    11:29:29 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    Chinese university threatens to take action against Indian student for posting offensive comments

    • A Chinese university has threatened to take action against an Indian student for allegedly posting offensive comments against the Chinese people on social media, the official media in Beijing reported on Saturday. The Indian national is a student at the Jiangsu University (JSU) in east China's Jiangsu Province. His offensive posts have gone viral on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, the Global Times reported. The university will punish him for his wrongdoing according to its regulations on overseas students after further investigation, the report quoted an official from the JSU as saying. The Indian student has since apologised, the report said.
    10:56:49 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    After instigating Nepal, China now woos Bangladesh

    • Just when India-China ties suffered a new low following the recent clashes at Galwan Valley in Ladakh, Beijing seems to be aggressively wooing Bangladesh, a strong ally of India in the neighbourhood, with a host of sops.
    • The India-China stand-off at Ladakh has also coincided with Nepal redrawing its map to include some Indian territories, presumably under a nudge from China.
    • While India is working to retaliate to the border violence by China, which claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers, through various measures mainly to hurt its economy, Beijing has reached out to Dhaka by offering to waive off 97% tariff on 5,161 items that Bangladesh trades with China.
    • Dhaka had asked for the waiver from China for being a "less developed country", and Beijing responded favourably on June 16, ironically a day after the Ladakh clash.
    10:37:19 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    87% Indians ready to boycott Chinese products for next one year: Survey

    • More than 8,000 responses were received for the question “Would you boycott buying Chinese products for next year?” and an overwhelming majority of them were ready to stop buying Chinese products. 87% of the 8,000 respondents said they were ready to boycott all Chinese made goods for the next one year. When asked if they are willing to boycott buying/using products & services of Chinese companies like Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, One Plus, Club Factory, Aliexpress, Shein, Tik Tok, WeChat etc. effective immediately, 58% of those surveyed said ‘yes, won’t buy from now’, while 39% said ‘yes, won’t buy from now but have to use what I have already purchased’.
    10:36:51 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    In Pics: Anti-China protest in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh

    10:22:09 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    Amit Shah lashes out at Rahul

    10:03:43 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    China displays 'rogue' attitude in neighbourhood, creates wedge between US, Europe: Mike Pompeo

    • US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday criticized the Chinese Communist Party for not only displaying its "rogue" attitude in its neighbourhood, particularly the recent escalation of border tension with India, but also for "pushing disinformation and malicious cyber campaigns so as to drive a wedge between the US and Europe." "It's the Chinese Communist Party that's forcing the choice," Pompeo said during an online conference on democracy held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
    China displays 'rogue' attitude in neighbourhood, creates wedge between US, Europe: Mike Pompeo
    09:48:07 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    IAF Chief on LAC

    09:41:11 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    In spite of unacceptable Chinese action after agreements reached during military talks & resulting loss of lives, all efforts are underway to ensure that the current situation at LAC is resolved peacefully.

    - RKS Bhadauria, Air Chief Marshal

    09:15:41 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    Madhya Pradesh CM

    09:14:19 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    'The Air Force is determined to deliver'

    09:00:42 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    Security scenario in our region mandates that our Armed Forces remain prepared & vigilant at all times

    - RKS Bhadauria Air Chief Marshal

    09:01:45 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    Watch: IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria speaks at the Combined Graduation Parade at Air Force Academy, Hyderabad

    08:47:28 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    Rahul ups the ante

    08:34:29 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    China lays claim to entire Galwan Valley

    • A day after India trashed the Chinese Army's claim of sovereignty over the Galwan Valley and asked Beijing to confine its activities to its side of the LAC, China's foreign ministry on Friday claimed that the Galwan Valley was on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control.
    • India has already dismissed China's claim of sovereignty over the Galwan Valley, saying such "exaggerated" and "untenable" claims are contrary to the understanding reached during a high-level military dialogue on June 6.
    08:24:59 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    Navy alert on China’s designs on Andamans

    • Many feel the archipelago, nearly 700 nautical miles from the mainland, remains at risk from People’s Liberation Army Navy. The Chinese navy has been active in the region, surveillance has established. While most Chinese vessels, including submarines, have lurked close to India’s territorial waters, some had to be driven away.
    07:06:35 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    Significant Chinese buildup emerges at Depsang plains

    • A significant Chinese buildup at the Depsang plains, which lie close to the Daulat Beg Oldie airfield, has emerged as another area of concern amid the current standoff in eastern Ladakh.
    • The Chinese have violated the Indian perception of LAC in Depsang by moving in troops and building a considerable strength close to the area with tanks and artillery, sources said. The buildup is of particular concern as China claims an area of about 20 km inside the Indian territory.
    06:45:31 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    MiG-29, Apache helicopters deployed at Leh airbase

    • India is rapidly building up military strength in Ladakh after the clash at Galwan valley on Monday night, with the latest Apache attack choppers and upgraded MiG-29 fighter jets deployed at the Leh airbase and additional troops rushed to eastern Ladakh.
    • Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria is currently in Leh, overlooking preparations of the IAF that has played a central role by transporting men and supplies to eastern Ladakh and conducting reconnaissance and air dominance patrols. Apache helicopters are designed to carry out offensive missions at high altitude locations and the Chinese have no match for them. Its deployment in the sector, hence, is a big boost to the military.
    06:22:20 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    FinMin proposes restriction on foreign investment in pension funds from China

    • Amidst growing tension between India and China, the finance ministry on Friday proposed putting restrictions on foreign investment in pension funds from any of India's bordering countries.
    06:19:48 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tears into China

    06:17:29 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

    The PLA has escalated border tensions-we see it today in India, the world’s most populous democracy. And we watch as it militarizes the South China Sea & illegally claims more territory there, threatening vital sea lanes, a promise they broke again: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
    06:14:28 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    China ups ante

    • Since April this year, the Indian border troops have unilaterally and continuously built roads, bridges and other facilities at the LAC in the Galwan Valley, China alleged in its "step by step" account of what transpired at the LAC in the past 2 months.
    06:13:17 AM IST, 20 June 2020

    Important Developments

    • 20 parties attended PM Modi's virtual meeting to discuss India-China border situation
    • PM Modi denied border intrusion and confirmed that no post has been taken over by the Chinese
    • Rajnath Singh said there was no intelligence failure during the Galwan clash
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