Chinese troops begin limited pull-back as India, China agree on ''expeditious'' disengagement along LAC
In the first signs of tensions easing, the Chinese military on Monday began a limited pull-back from a number of friction points in eastern Ladakh, a day after NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed on completing the ongoing disengagement process along the LAC "expeditiously", government sources and officials said.
The Indian Air Force is significantly enhancing deployment of its frontline jets, attack helicopters and transport fleet in all its key bases guarding the airspace along the Line of Actual Control in view of heightened border tension with China in eastern Ladakh, people familiar with the development said on Saturday.
The space policy and the Space Activities Bill are in the final stages, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan said, days after the government opened up the space sector for private players.
The pandemic has created an opportunity of a golden kind for the country to bank upon its own resources – manpower and otherwise – to turn the tables on the crisis by opening up new avenues and opportunities in the direction of self-reliance and self-sustenance to build a stronger, more powerful, resurgent India in the foreseeable future.
