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Tri-service exercise ‘Tiger Triumph-24’ between India, US concludes

March 31, 2024

New Delhi: The 14-day bilateral tri-service exercise between India and the US, 'Tiger Triumph-24', has concluded, officials said Sunday. The ...

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India, Japan kick start two-week military exercise

February 25, 2024

New Delhi: India and Japan Sunday kicked-off a two-week military exercise in Rajasthan's Mahajan field firing range to foster deeper ...

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Inaugural edition of India-Saudi Arabia joint military exercise gets underway in Rajasthan

January 29, 2024

New Delhi: The inaugural edition of India-Saudi Arabia joint military exercise 'SADA TANSEEQ', which seeks to develop interoperability, bonhomie, and ...

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Indian, Egyptian armies begin eleven-day exercise

January 22, 2024

New Delhi: The Indian and Egyptian armies Monday began an 11-day military exercise in Egypt's Anshas in line with the ...

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India-US joint exercise kicks off in Meghalaya

November 21, 2023

New Delhi: The Indo-US Joint Special Forces exercise “Vajra Prahar 2023” commenced Tuesday at the Joint Training Node, in Meghalaya’s ...

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Navies of India, UAE carry out military exercise

August 12, 2023

New Delhi: The navies of India and the United Arab Emirates carried out a military exercise as part of efforts ...

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India, US kick-start mega military drills in Uttarakhand

November 15, 2022

New Delhi: The armies of India and the US Tuesday began an over two-week mega military exercise at a military ...

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

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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 ...

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India and Kyrgyzstan carry out 2-week military exercise

April 6, 2022

New Delhi: India and Kyrgyzstan carried out a two-week-long wargame involving their special forces in reflection of growing defence ties ...

International

Israel participates in military exercise with Pak

February 18, 2022

New Delhi: The Israeli Navy confirmed that it participated in a US-led exercise with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and some other ...

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Transparency Missing

December 23, 2024

One of the cornerstones of a functioning democracy is transparency as the people have every right to information on all...

December 22, 2024

What should we look forward to in 2025? I mean “look forward to” in the sense of anticipate rather than...

December 21, 2024

The appointment of Directors General of Police (DGPs) is one of the crucial issues the Supreme Court has, once again,...

December 18, 2024

I t may appear strange in most democracies, including India, that losing a no-confidence vote against a government leading to...

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