Eastern Ladakh

India has lost access to 26 of 65 patrolling points in Eastern Ladakh, a report by a senior police officer in the union territory has said, in a worrying new disclosure amid the country's standoff with China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a video conversation with the soldiers stationed along the India-China border in eastern Ladakh and inspected their combat readiness, official media here reported on Friday.

Amit Shah says Congress MPs deliberately disrupted Question Hour in Lok Sabha since a question on Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was listed

The situation in eastern Ladakh is "stable but unpredictable", Chief of Army Staff Gen Manoj Pande said on Saturday, amid the lingering border standoff in the region with China.

India will upgrade an airfield in eastern Ladakh, just 50 km from the Line of Actual Control, to operate fighter jets, news agency ANI reported.

India and China agreed on Friday to hold the next round of military-level talks at an early date to resolve the remaining issues in eastern Ladakh and create conditions for the restoration of normalcy in the bilateral ties.

A mountaineer duo has climbed five 6,000 metre-plus peaks in eastern Ladakh in less than 24 hours, reaching two of them for the first time ever by any expedition.

Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari on Tuesday said the benchmark for the situation to become normal in eastern Ladakh would be to return to status quo ante prior to the standoff and complete withdrawal of troops from all friction points.

New satellite images accessed by NDTV confirm that Chinese soldiers have withdrawn 3 kilometres from the position that they occupied across the Line of Actual Control in Gogra-Hot Springs in Eastern Ladakh.

Indian and Chinese troops on Monday moved back their frontline troops to the rear locations from the face-off site of Patrolling Point 15 in the Gogra-Hotsprings area in eastern Ladakh.

Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Monday said the process of Indian and Chinese militaries disengaging from Patrolling Point 15 in the Gogra-Hotsprings area in eastern Ladakh was "going as per schedule".

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday handed over to the Army a wide range of indigenous military equipment including unmanned aerial systems and quick reaction fighting vehicles to crank up its combat capabilities in eastern Ladakh.

India said it is engaged in talks with China with a focus on a "path" to resolve outstanding issues in eastern Ladakh that entailed disengagement, de-escalation and having some degree of stability in the border areas.

The Indian and Chinese armies agreed to work out a mutually acceptable resolution of the remaining issues in eastern Ladakh at the earliest during their 16th round of high-level talks on Sunday.

In the backdrop of the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh, the Army has upscaled its efforts to impart Chinese language training to its personnel as part of the overall strategy to ramp up surveillance along the over 3,400-km Line of Actual Contr

India has lost access to 26 of 65 patrolling points in Eastern Ladakh, a report by a senior police officer in the union territory has said, in a worrying new disclosure amid the country's standoff with China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a video conversation with the soldiers stationed along the India-China border in eastern Ladakh and inspected their combat readiness, official media here reported on Friday.

Amit Shah says Congress MPs deliberately disrupted Question Hour in Lok Sabha since a question on Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was listed

The situation in eastern Ladakh is "stable but unpredictable", Chief of Army Staff Gen Manoj Pande said on Saturday, amid the lingering border standoff in the region with China.

India will upgrade an airfield in eastern Ladakh, just 50 km from the Line of Actual Control, to operate fighter jets, news agency ANI reported.

India and China agreed on Friday to hold the next round of military-level talks at an early date to resolve the remaining issues in eastern Ladakh and create conditions for the restoration of normalcy in the bilateral ties.

A mountaineer duo has climbed five 6,000 metre-plus peaks in eastern Ladakh in less than 24 hours, reaching two of them for the first time ever by any expedition.

Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari on Tuesday said the benchmark for the situation to become normal in eastern Ladakh would be to return to status quo ante prior to the standoff and complete withdrawal of troops from all friction points.

New satellite images accessed by NDTV confirm that Chinese soldiers have withdrawn 3 kilometres from the position that they occupied across the Line of Actual Control in Gogra-Hot Springs in Eastern Ladakh.

Indian and Chinese troops on Monday moved back their frontline troops to the rear locations from the face-off site of Patrolling Point 15 in the Gogra-Hotsprings area in eastern Ladakh.

Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Monday said the process of Indian and Chinese militaries disengaging from Patrolling Point 15 in the Gogra-Hotsprings area in eastern Ladakh was "going as per schedule".

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday handed over to the Army a wide range of indigenous military equipment including unmanned aerial systems and quick reaction fighting vehicles to crank up its combat capabilities in eastern Ladakh.

India said it is engaged in talks with China with a focus on a "path" to resolve outstanding issues in eastern Ladakh that entailed disengagement, de-escalation and having some degree of stability in the border areas.

The Indian and Chinese armies agreed to work out a mutually acceptable resolution of the remaining issues in eastern Ladakh at the earliest during their 16th round of high-level talks on Sunday.

In the backdrop of the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh, the Army has upscaled its efforts to impart Chinese language training to its personnel as part of the overall strategy to ramp up surveillance along the over 3,400-km Line of Actual Contr