Within days of India announcing plans to assert its right within the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, China said it was building a dam on a tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo, as Brahmaputra is known in Tibet. This will be its ‘most expensive hydel project’. Here’s all about the project, the tributary and why India worries about the project. Why India sees red 1. China’s dam building overdrive is a […]

During his lengthy speech on August 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke briefly about what was happening in Pakistan, in Peshawar and the terror. He spoke about the messages he was receiving from the people of Balochistan, Gilgit and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) who were thanking him, and in doing so, they were really thanking all Indians.  He did not say why they were thanking him. Nor did he say what […]

The futuristic bus can easily glide over traffic jams and pile-ups, as was seen during its demo run. China is popularly known for its technological prowess throughout the world and it has again managed to jolt the world after it finally turned the concept of a ‘straddling bus’ into reality. While the concept video of the ‘Transit Elevated Bus’ was doing rounds on social media since May, no one actually […]

The impending exit of Uber, the app-based taxi services provider, from China shows the difference between how China supports its local entrepreneurs and how India doesn’t. China follows a mercantilist policy when it comes to encouraging investment, with the dice loaded heavily in favour of the local incumbent while in India there is no such indulgence. Whether it is Amazon or Facebook or Google or Apple or Uber, local champs […]

Deep in the Himalayas some three miles above sea level, Indian security forces and Chinese soldiers gaze at each other through a barbed-wire fence while trucks carrying goods from both sides pass through a large iron gate that marks the border. The Nathula Pass, once part of the ancient Silk Road and later sealed after a 1962 war, was reopened in 2006 as a symbol of improved relations between Asian […]

For the residents of Chedian, a few thousand-year-old village of muddy by-lanes and old stone courtyard houses, she is just another form of Guanyin, the female Bodhisattva who is venerated in many parts of China. But the goddess that the residents of this village pray to every morning, as they light incense sticks and chant prayers, is quite unlike any deity one might find elsewhere in China. Sitting cross-legged, the […]

In a dramatic move, China has once again blocked India’ bid at the United Nations to ban Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, also the mastermind of deadly Pathankot terror attack that killed 7 Indian security officials in January this year. Highly placed sources told the PTI that just hours before the deadline earlier today, China requested the UN Committee, which is considering a ban on Azhar, to […]

A giant gold-painted statue of China’s Communist Party founder Chairman Mao Zedong has been suddenly demolished, apparently for lacking government approval, days after his supporters installed it at a cost of whopping $460,000. While the 37-meter statue made up of concrete and steel was installed in Tongxu county near Kaifeng in Henan province with high-profile publicity both at home and abroad, Mao’s supports lamented the decline of his hardline ideology. […]

You may not know this but every problem your body experiences translates in various skin alterations and the best way of noticing this is by inspecting your face. There is a Chinese old teaching that identifies every organ in your body with a correspondent area on your face, and every affection occurring in one of your organs will reflect onto your face under the form of pimples, various changes in […]

China today said ties with India and between the armies have improved as a result of bilateral mechanisms put in place by both sides to bring down tensions over the disputed border after a video emerged showing Indian and Chinese soldiers involved in a standoff in 2013. “I have seen the report. The video showed something that happened several years ago. We released information and clarified our position at that […]