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Border features at Indian envoy's meeting with Chinese foreign minister

Indian Ambassador to China Pradeep Kumar Rawat met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ahead of the BRICS summit and emphasised the 'criticality of maintenance of peace and tranquillity in the border......

Meet halfway to push bilateral relations back on track: China to India

Indian Ambassador to China Pradeep Kumar Rawat has met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ahead of Thursday's virtual BRICS summit hosted by President Xi Jinping in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi......

Afghan Sikh among 2 dead in blasts at Kabul Gurdwara, 3 attackers killed

Several blasts tore through a gurdwara in Kabul on Saturday, killing two persons, including a Sikh, and injuring seven others, while Afghan security personnel thwarted a bigger tragedy by stopping......

China responds to Biden's remark with military drills near Taiwan

China on Wednesday announced military drills around Taiwan, days after United States President Joe Biden said Washington would intervene militarily if Beijing tried to reunify with the island by......

US ready to send troops if China invades Taiwan

United States President Joe Biden said on Monday that Washington is ready to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan in the event of invasion. IMAGE: US President Joe Biden speaks while attending......

China's economy grows by 8.1% in 2021

China's economy grew by 8.1 per cent in 2021 to about $18 trillion despite challenges, including epidemic resurgences and a complicated external environment, the government said on Monday. IMAGE:......

China's economic growth slows to 7.9% in Q2

China's post COVID-19 pandemic economic rebound showed signs of slowdown as the economy grew at 7.9 per cent in the second quarter compared to a record 18.3 per cent in Q1, while the GDP expanded......

In Covid times China reports Q1 GDP growth of whopping 18.3%

China's GDP jumped a record 18.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2021, riding on strong domestic and foreign demand and aided by recovery from a low base in early 2020 when Covid-19 stalled the......

China builds data centre in Tibet; to benefit Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan

China is building the world's highest-altitude cloud computing data centre in Tibet that will meet the data storage needs of the country and South Asian nations like Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan,......

Covid-hit Chinese economy grows 4.9% in Q3

China's economy, which suffered 6.8 per cent slump in the first quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic -- the worst in 44 years -- bounced back posting 4.9 per cent growth between July and......

Beijing 2022 mascot Bing Dwen Dwen is just too popular

IMAGE: Bronze medallist Isabelle Weidemann of Team Canada holds up the Panda mascot. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Die-hard fans, and scalpers, queued overnight for the chance......

PIX: Beijing Winter Games open amid criticism, boycotts

IMAGE: Fireworks explode over the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, in Beijing, China, on Friday. Photograph: Aly......

Russian President Putin arrives in Beijing for Winter Olympics

IMAGE: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, on Friday. Photograph: Sputnik/Aleksey Druzhinin/Kremlin via Reuters Russian President......

First-ever Tibet-based athletes to compete in Winter Games

IMAGE: The report did not specify their ethnicity, but both have Tibetan-sounding names and were born in the Tibet Autonomous Region, where ethnic Tibetans make up over 80% of the population.......

Maradona death probe: Seven suspects issued travel bans

Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, psychologists Carlos Diaz, Dahiana Madrid and Ricardo Almiron, doctor Nancy Forlini and nurse coordinator Mariano Perroni were last week......

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