Experts say substantive progress in Sino-Indian border talks ‘dim’

September 24th, 2009 FRANKFURT - Top government sources are putting the media in the dock for drumming up the incursion issue and reiterated that there is no imminent threat or a significant rise in incursions from the Chinese side along the Sino-Indian border. Referring to media reports of a proposed high-level meeting of the China Study Group being called by National Security Adviser M.K.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - China on Tuesday flatly denied reports of incursions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Talking to reporters after meeting with Home Secretary G K Pillai here, Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan said: "Nothing is happening.

September 19th, 2009 ISTANBUL - For peace to prevail along the Sino-Indian border, all boundary issues need to be resolved in right earnest, External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna said in an exclusive interview to ANI here on Friday.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian government put off a high-level meeting of officials that was to be held here Thursday to discuss alleged Chinese border intrusions. The meeting was expected to be chaired by National Security Adviser M.K.

September 14th, 2009 MULTAN - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that he did not expect to achieve anything greater than "incremental progress" during his talks with his Indian counterpart SM Krishna in New York. Pakistan will adopt a clear stance on all outstanding issues, Qureshi told reporters on Sunday.

August 26th, 2009 BEIJING/TOKYO - A new survey has revealed that the Chinese and the Japanese are seeing each other a bit more positively than last year. The survey, jointly sponsored by the China Daily and Genron NPO, a Japanese think tank, found that a majority of people in both countries believe Sino-Japanese relations are important.

August 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A.K.Antony said on Monday that the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) will be amended every year to improve country's acquisition policy for the armed forces, instead of once in two or three years as has been the practice. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a seminar here today Antony said, "We have taken a decision that instead of every two or three years, we will amend the DPP annually so that by learning we would be able to improve it every year." The Government will amend the DPP in the next few months that further give new impetus to indigenisation process, he said.

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and China have decided to maintain peace and tranquillity in their borders after the conclusion of two-day talks held in the national capital to resolve their long simmering border dispute. "On the boundary question, both sides expressed satisfaction at the progress being made through the Special Representatives mechanism and reiterated that pending the settlement of the boundary issue, peace and tranquility should be maintained in our border areas," Vishnu Prakash, Ministry of External Affairs spokesman told reporters in New Delhi on Saturday.

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Visiting Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo met Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here today and is learnt to have deliberated upon long simmering border dispute between the two countries.

July 31st, 2009 BEIJING - The 13th meeting of the Chinese and Indian special representatives to discuss the border issue will be held Aug 7-8 in India, foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced here Friday. Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo and Indian National Security Advisor M.K.

June 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Having conquered 24,130-feet Mount Abi Gamin peak on the Sino-Indian border, the mountaineering and skiing team of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) returned to the national capital on Thursday and was accorded a warm reception. The team skied down the peak, despite heavy snow accumulation and high velocity blizzards.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Just hours ahead of the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh's meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Russian Industrial city of Yeketerinberg, senior officials in the Indian delegation on Monday chose to downplay former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major' recent comments about China as being "his independent position and not the policy statement." Officials further said that policy statements are made by Ministers and officials, only if they are entitled for the same. In May, the then IAF chief Fali Homi Major, during an interview to an English daily, was quoted to have stated that in the wake of its military expansion, China was a "bigger threat" than Pakistan.

May 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Just days after the chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, described China as the bigger threat to India than Pakistan, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jeichi today congratulated new External Affairs Minister S M Krishna for assuming charge of the Foreign office. Jeichi in a statement said "The Chinese side attaches great significance to the friendly relations of cooperation with India.

April 22nd, 2009 BEIJING - U.S. President Barack Obama risks damaging relations with China if he meets the Dalai Lama in October, Chinese experts have warned.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and China are exploring dates to hold the next round of talks to resolve their decades-old boundary dispute, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here Thursday while calling for more economic interaction between the two sides. 'We are looking at new dates for boundary talks.