Month: August 2022

Entertainment

Nandita Das film starring Kapil Sharma to premiere at Toronto fest

August 19, 2022

Mumbai: The Nandita Das-directed film, 'Zwigato', will have its world premiere at the 47th edition of the prestigious Toronto International ...

Home News

India-China relationship going through ‘extremely difficult phase’: EAM Jaishankar

August 18, 2022

Bangkok: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Thursday that the relationship between India and China is going through an "extremely ...

China renews war threats as Taiwan launches its military exercises Beijing: China Thursday renewed its threat to attack Taiwan following almost a week of war games near the island. Taiwan has called Beijing's claims to the self-governing democracy “wishful thinking" and launched its own military exercises. Taiwan's “collusion with external forces to seek independence and provocation will only accelerate their own demise and push Taiwan into the abyss of disaster,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily briefing. “Their pursuit of Taiwan independence will never succeed, and any attempt to sell the national interest will be met with a complete failure," Wang told reporters. China's attempt to intimidate the Taiwanese public and advertise its strategy for blockading and potentially invading the island was nominally prompted by a visit to Taipei last week by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The US, Japan and allies have denounced the exercises, with the Group of Seven industrialised nations issuing a statement at a recent meeting expressing its concern. On Wednesday, Britain's government summoned Chinese Ambassador Zheng Zeguang to the Foreign Office to demand an explanation of "Beijing's aggressive and wide-ranging escalation against Taiwan”. Taiwan says Beijing used Pelosi's visit as a pretext to raise the stakes in its feud with Taipei, firing missiles into the Taiwan Strait and over the island into the Pacific Ocean. China also sent planes and ships across the midline in the strait that has long been a buffer between the sides, which separated amid civil war in 1949. In a lengthy policy statement on Taiwan issued Wednesday, China distorted the historical record, including the United Nations' 1972 resolution that transferred the China seat on the Security Council from Beijing to Taipei, Taiwan's Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council said. The Chinese statement also discarded a pledge not to send troops or government officials to Taiwan that was contained in previous statements. The UN resolution makes no mention of Taiwan's status, although China regards it as a foundational document proclaiming the Communist Party's right to control over the island. The Taiwanese council's statement said China was orchestrating its moves against Taiwan ahead of the ruling Communist Party's 20th National Congress to be held later this year. President and party leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term at the conclave, after leading a relentless crackdown on political figures accused of corruption, human rights activists and civil society groups. Xi's suppression of free speech and political opposition in Hong Kong was also seen as a factor behind Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen winning a second term in 2020. China says it plans to annex Taiwan under the now widely discredited “one country, two systems" format applied in Hong Kong. The concept has been thoroughly rejected in Taiwanese public opinion polls in which respondents have overwhelmingly favoured the status-quo of de-facto independence. The Chinese statement is “full of wishful thinking, and ignores the facts," the Mainland Affairs Council said in its press release. The “crude and clumsy political operations by the Beijing authorities further highlight its arrogant thinking pattern of attempting to use force to invade and destroy the Taiwan Strait and regional peace," the release said. “The authorities in Beijing deceive themselves. We warn the Beijing authorities to immediately stop threatening Taiwan with force and spreading false information," it said. Taiwan placed its military under high alert during the Chinese drills but took no direct countermeasures. It held artillery drills off its southwestern coast facing China that ran through Thursday, illustrating the challenges the People's Liberation Army would face were it to launch an invasion across the strait. AP China, Taiwan

Business

US to hold trade talks with Taiwan, island drills military

August 18, 2022

Hualien (Taiwan): The US Government Thursday announced trade talks with Taiwan in a sign of support for the island democracy ...

National

8 of 10 households in Delhi-NCR had one or more affected by viral fever in last 30 days: Survey

August 18, 2022

New Delhi: Eight out of every 10 households surveyed in Delhi-NCR have one or more individuals who showed symptoms of ...

Sci-Tech

Potential for 200x profit in bear market by investing in these altcoins: Avalanche, Tron and Petrousus Token

August 18, 2022

The long-dreaded crypto winter is finally here. Since the crypto market crashed alongside global financial markets in May, the possibility ...

Feature

“India can lead the battle against monkeypox,” says Dr Sunil Raina of World Health Network

August 18, 2022

With nine cases of monkeypox in the country, precautionary measures, alerts, and health advisories are being updated regularly. After battling ...

Delhi excise policy: ED conducts fresh raids at 35 locations

National

ED raids BSP MP Afzal Ansari in PMLA case against brother Mukhtar Ansari

August 18, 2022

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Thursday raided the official residence of BSP MP Afzal Ansari in Delhi as part ...

Business

Elevated inflation warrants appropriate policy response, says RBI article

August 18, 2022

Mumbai: Inflation is persistently at elevated levels that warrants appropriate policy responses to anchor expectations going forward, said an RBI ...

Business

Market cap of BSE-listed firms at all-time high of over Rs 280.52 lakh crore

August 18, 2022

New Delhi: The market capitalisation of BSE-listed firms reached an all-time high of over Rs 280.52 lakh crore Thursday, helped ...

Sports

Chahar shines on return as India thump Zimbabwe by 10 wickets

August 18, 2022

Harare: Pacer Deepak Chahar made an impressive comeback to international cricket with an incisive spell and openers maintained their consistency ...

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Editorial

Armageddon

April 8, 2026

The world is forced to pass through harrowing moments by the rantings of US President Donald Trump. In his latest,...

April 7, 2026

It is disgraceful and a pity that US President Donald Trump has resorted to using expletives directed at Iran that...

April 6, 2026

The ongoing conflict between Iran and the US-Israel combine is beginning to tell a story far removed from the early...

April 5, 2026

By Aakar Patel We are in the second month of what is settling in to become a long war and...

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