China can get hostile any time, says RSS chief

October 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after Pakistan accused India of funding and supporting the Tailban on its soil, Defence Minister A.K. Antony Tuesday called the allegation "absurd" and "totally baseless".

October 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD - India Monday rejected Pakistan's allegations of funding the Taliban to foment unrest in that country as baseless and asked it to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism targeted at New Delhi. "This is completely groundless and baseless, official sources in the external affairs ministry told IANS Monday when asked about Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's allegation that India was funding the Taliban to destabilise his country.

October 26th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is now accusing India of funding the Taliban militants, Online news agency reported Tuesday. Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik, when asked during an TV interview about who was backing the Taliban, said: "There are certain hostile elements against Pakistan and there are certain hostile agencies which do not want Pakistan to be (stabilized)." In response to a question on whether India was among the hostile agencies, Malik said, "Yes, of course, I am convinced.

October 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India could face trouble on both the Pakistani and Chinese borders at the same time but it is not in a position to defend even one, former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra said Wednesday. "We are now facing the possibility of having two fronts being active simultaneously, both Pakistan and China, and this has never been the case before," Mishra told BBC Hindi service in an interview.

October 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Advocating more "prudent" analysis of India-China relations, former foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon said Wednesday that recent alarmist and uninformed comments about their ties have not been useful. We have a spectacle of breast-beating and wailing which must be of great comfort to those who are hostile to India, said Menon at the launch of a book "Chasing the Dragon: Will India catch up with China?.

October 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan issued a commemorative postage stamp Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of Communist China, and Beijing's envoy described Sino-Pakistani relations as "higher than the Himalayas, deeper than the Arabian sea and sweeter than honey". Federal Minister for Postal Services Nawabzada Mir Israr Ullah Khan Zehri and China's ambassador Luo Zhaohui unveiled the stamp issued by the Pakistan Post at its headquarters here.

September 23rd, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The strength of the Indian Air Force (IAF) is "inadequate", Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik said Wednesday.

September 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and China Friday signed an agreement to build a communication satellite in the next three years, officials said. China will provide $200 million to Pakistan to build the PAKSAT-1R satellite.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With recent Chinese incursions creating anxiety in India, National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan has convened a high-level meeting of top officials Thursday to formulate an appropriate response to what is widely seen as Beijing's hostile posturing.

September 1st, 2009 BEIJING - China Tuesday urged the Myanmar junta to restore order and stability at their border following unrest that triggered mass exodus of Myanmarese into the Communist country. "Safeguarding the stability of the China-Myanmar border is in line with the vital interests of both governments," said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.

July 30th, 2009 UN chief says China wants climate dealUNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says China's leaders have assured him they want to seal a deal on a new U.N. climate treaty at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December.

July 11th, 2009 Scholar: NKorea interested in freeing US reportersSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea appears "seriously interested" in releasing two convicted American journalists but first wants the United States to acknowledge what Pyongyang sees as their "hostile acts," a U.S.-based scholar who visited Pyongyang said Saturday. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained in March near the North Korean border with China and sentenced last month to 12 years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and for "hostile acts." The two — who work for former U.S.

June 20th, 2009 US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 634As of Sunday, June 21, 2009, at least 634 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Little is known about China's "actual capability" in the defence sector, Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major said Wednesday, as he clarified his previous remarks that Beijing was the biggest threat to India. I meant to say that we know very little about the actual capability of the country...

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday that China deserves the right to demand more say and representation in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Brown told reporters after the G20 summit that China pledged to contribute $40 billion to the international financial institutions, while the European Union (EU) and Japan offered $100 billion respectively.