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The Indian Express  By:  Express News Service  | New Delhi  Updated: November 20, 2020     India on Thursday said it will continue dialogue and communication through military and diplomatic channels with China on the border standoff in eastern Ladakh and that both sides have agreed to hold another round of talks soon. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava, while referring to the ongoing military talks between the two countries, also rejected as “baseless” a report in a British daily The Times, which quoted a Chinese professor to claim that the Chinese PLA had used “microwave weapons” to force Indian soldiers to leave positions in eastern Ladakh. He said the objective of the military talks is to ensure complete disengagement and full restoration of peace and tranquillity along the LAC in the western sector. At an online media briefing, he recalled the eighth round of talks between senior military commanders of India and China in Chushul on...

The Indian Express 16 June 2020 Written by: Shubhajit Roy Sources said the demarche — a protest lodged through diplomatic channels —“to the Pakistan CDA (charge d’affaires) made clear that there should be no interrogation or harassment of the Indian officials”. TWO STAFFERS of the Indian High Commission in Pakistan, who went “missing” for most of Monday, have “returned” after India summoned Pakistan’s Acting High Commissioner Syed Haider Shah and issued a demarche, sources told The Indian Express. Pakistani media reports claimed that the two staffers had been arrested in Islamabad after their vehicle hit a pedestrian. Sources said the two “went missing in the morning”, but later returned and have undergone a medical examination. Sources said the demarche — a protest lodged through diplomatic channels — “to the Pakistan CDA (charge d’affaires) made clear that there should be no interrogation or harassment of the Indian officials”. “Responsibility for ...