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The Better India
April 26, 2018
After much lobbying, only two countries co-sponsored New Delhi's resolution—Mongolia and Bhutan. Many nations, including the likes of China and the United States, had cast aspersions on the armed intervention by India (backed by support from the erstwhile USSR) in support of Bangladesh's secessionÃâà...
ABC News
April 26, 2018
The two countries fought a monthlong border war in 1962 and have been trying to settle the boundary since the 1980s. ... soldiers, occur fairly regularly, but the most aggressive confrontation in decades took place last summer where the Himalayan borders of India, China and Bhutan come together.
The Straits Times
April 26, 2018
India and China went to war in 1962 over Arunachal Pradesh, with Chinese troops temporarily capturing part of the Himalayan territory. The dispute ... Last year, Indian and Chinese troops faced off on the Doklam plateau, an area high in the Himalayas claimed both by China and by India's ally Bhutan.
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
April 25, 2018
One of the saddest aspects of any war, whatever time and place, occurs after the fighting has stopped. ... After all, the war was over and soon they would be with friends and loved ones. ... 8, a Bhutanese political officer reported his advance agents visited the crash site, where they located 34 bodies.
STRATFOR
April 24, 2018
Bhutan's strategic location and hydropower potential will make the small Himalayan kingdom the continuing recipient of the most Indian foreign aid. ... poorly demarcated Himalayan frontier, creating a border dispute that precipitated a short war in 1962 and that continues to vex bilateral relations to this day.
Malaysia Tatler
April 13, 2018
A flight from KL to Bangkok and then Bangkok to Bhutan landed Florence and her tour group in the beautiful valley town of Paro. The group, led by tourism veteran Prof Datuk Seri Dr Victor Wee, arrived just in time for the first day of the Paro Tshechu Festival on the 10th day of the second Bhutanese lunarÃâà...
BBC News
April 8, 2018
The fear is that in any future conflict, Chinese troops can use it to seize India's strategically important Siliguri Corridor, known as the Chicken's Neck, ... The tense stand-off between Chinese and Indian troops in Doklam raised concerns among many Bhutanese that it could trigger a war between the twoÃâà...
Economic Times
April 7, 2018
But after the terrorist attack on an Indian Army camp in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir on September 18 that year, India expressed its inability to participate in the summit due to "prevailing ... The summit was called off after Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan also declined to participate in the Islamabad meet.
Livemint
April 1, 2018
Walong, situated on the bank of Lohit river, had witnessed the bravery of Indian troops against Chinese aggression during the 1962 war between the two countries. ... The area in Doklam where China tried to construct a road is a disputed territory claimed by both China and Bhutan. India sent its troops toÃâà...
Kashmir Observer
April 1, 2018
The book begins at the backdrop of 2004 where a Police officer posted in Assam-Bhutan border is approached by a young army officer for a favour. The favour is for supply of a person who can be killed to complete the quota of killings. The army officer had killed two instead of his actual reportage of threeÃâà...
The Tribune
April 1, 2018
Of course, the Bhutanese claim is (partially at least) not without some historical foundation, although Doklam as such used to be under the control of the ... we want China as friend and partner or continue to regard it as rival and enemy against whom we should prepare for the decisive war eventually.
NorthEast Today
March 31, 2018
Questions are being asked if there looms a threat of a Water War between India and Pakistan and India and China, where Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal ... Even though the conflict between Arunachal Pradesh and Assam over the Brahmaputra is not on official records, however, over the years it hasÃâà...
The Courier
March 27, 2018
Apartments on Columbus' north side have become the center of the largest U.S. population of Bhutanese refugees, most Buddhist or Hindu, expelled during an ethnic cleansing campaign against ethnic Nepalis in the early 1990s. They live alongside the country's second largest Somali community, mostÃâà...
The-review
March 27, 2018
Apartments on Columbus' north side have become the center of the largest U.S. population of Bhutanese refugees, most Buddhist or Hindu, expelled during an ethnic cleansing campaign against ethnic Nepalis in the early 1990s. They live alongside the country's second largest Somali community, mostÃâà...
The Daily Progress
March 27, 2018
Devi Gurung, a 28-year-old refugee from Bhutan, waits for her niece to arrive from school in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Feb. ... Moza Ausa, a 4-year-old refugee from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, stands in the family's new apartment in Columbus, Ohio, during the early morning hours ofÃâà...
Daily News & Analysis
March 27, 2018
In his book, China's India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World, Bertil Lintner says Bhutan cannot antagonise China, its powerful northern neighbour. He writes that on 1 August 2017 during the Doklam crisis, Bhutan's Ambassador to India Gen Vetsup Namgyel attended the 90th anniversaryÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 26, 2018
A number of factors pushed and pulled these entrepreneurs to Sioux Falls, including conflict in their home countries and the search for better opportunities. There are quite a few ... Because of their Nepalese ancestry, the Bhutanese government said they had no right to stay in Bhutan. "They sent a warningÃâà...
Press Herald
March 26, 2018
Moza Ausa, a 4-year-old refugee from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, stands in the family's new apartment in Columbus, Ohio, in February. ... on opposite sides of town, the women – one a former shopkeeper from Somalia, the other a teacher from Bhutan – waited for children to come home.
Qantara.de
March 26, 2018
In apartment complexes on opposite sides of town, the women – one a former shopkeeper from Somalia, the other a teacher from Bhutan – waited for children to come home. Only the teacher, Devi Gurung, was rewarded for her patience. Outside an apartment decorated with Buddhist prayer flags, sheÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
March 19, 2018
Operating in the threshold between peace and war, China has pushed its borders far out into international waters in the South China Sea in a way no ... In the disputed Himalayan plateau of Doklam, claimed by both Bhutan and China, the People's Liberation Army has incrementally changed the status quoÃâà...
The Tribune
March 11, 2018
And poor Bhutan, on whose behalf India had claimed to have interceded, has come off the worst. Except for patrols and occasional threats to build a road, China used to stay clear of Doklam. In border talks with Thimphu, it would offer the disputed areas in the northern sector in exchange for ownershipÃâà...
Coeur d'Alene Press
March 9, 2018
COEUR d'ALENE — Refugees from South Sudan and Bhutan spoke about their perilous journeys to America in an emotional and educational evening at the Coeur d'Alene ... Lino's parents were killed by rebels when he was only 3 years old, and he spent the next several years of his life as a child slave.
ThePrint
March 7, 2018
The 55th Brigade's lineage comes from the PLA's 55th Division, which participated in the 1962 War. The division belonged to 19th Corps, re-raised in 1969 after previous disbandment subsequent to the end of the Korean War. It next went to 21st Army after its parent army was disbanded in 1985; thenÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 6, 2018
... for defence, Subhash Bhamre, last week said the situation along India's border with China is “sensitive” and has the potential to escalate. Tensions between the two nations took a turn for the worst last summer when both sent military forces to Doklam that sits under the territory of New Delhi's ally, Bhutan.
The Strategist (blog)
February 25, 2018
Such a binary approach, if employed without adequate forethought and preparation, could end up disastrously for India, as happened in the border war of 1962. In that conflict, an irate but uninformed public pushed the Nehru government into a more aggressive policy on the border without adequate militaryÃâà...
India Today
December 31, 1999
The recent dialogues from both Indian and Chinese sides regarding the status of Doklam has sparkled the controversy yet again. And it led everyone (almost) to question, where is Doklam and why it is so important to not only India but also China and Bhutan.
Nikkei Asian Review
December 31, 1999
China, however, has not spared even one of the world's smallest countries, Bhutan, which has barely 8,000 men in its security forces. In the disputed Himalayan plateau of Doklam, claimed by both Bhutan and China, the People's Liberation Army has incrementally changed the status quo since last fall.
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