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Dalai Lama's appeal for peace came amid the standoff between the Indian and Chinese force in Doklam LATEST NEWS    :   Tibetan spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama on Wednesday urged India and China to maintain peace, saying that both nations are like brothers and have to live side by side. "Eventually, 'Hindi-Chini- Bhai Bhai' is the only way; the two big nations, you have to live side by side," Dalai Lama said while attending a programme here. He said he likes India as there is freedom in this country and he has more opportunity to share. "There is freedom in this country, I can do more and have more opportunity to share. Where there is no freedom, I don't like," he said. He also added that as per the wish of Chinese people, the Communist Party of China may follow his practice of democracy. "Our small Tibetan community fully practices democracy and I am an admirer of democracy. People are real rulers of a countr...

China reiterates its position, asks India to withdraw and conduct an investigation LATEST NEWS :   Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said China cannot let a single piece of its territory split and won't allow anyone to damage its sovereignty. INDIA CHINA STANDOFF : The armies of both countries have been engaged in a standoff since June 16 in Sikkim section where India and China share a 220-km-long border. China has maintained that there won't be a meaningful dialogue without the unconditional withdrawal of Indian troops. Meanwhile, India maintains that the unilateral action by China to build a road in the area was altering the status quo and had serious security implications for India. Doklam is disputed between China and Bhutan, whose ally India backs Bhutan in its claims over the region. At the tri-junction China, India, and Bhutan, Doklam is of strategic importance to all three. Beijing wants New Delhi to withdraw troops from Doklam. New...

Wang Yi said, 'India has admitted it crossed into the Chinese territory' LATEST NEWS     :    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday said India is responsible for the latest border row and asked it to withdraw troops from Doklama  , which Beijing calls Chinese territory. This is the first time a top Chinese government official has reacted to the festering border dispute in Sikkim sector, where the armies of the two sides are locked in a stand-off since over a month. "The rights and wrongs are very clear, and even senior Indian officials have openly stated that Chinese troops did not enter into the Indian boundary. So India has admitted it crossed into the Chinese territory," said Wang. "The solution is very simple. India must conscientiously pull back its troops," said a statement in Chinese quoting Wang. ALSO READ THIS : 4 killed, many trapped as building collapses in Mumbai

China asked India to correct mistakes and pull back troops from Chicken's Neck Latest news : Upping the ante on the Sikkim standoff , China on Wednesday accused India of "trampling" on the Panchsheel principles and asked New Delhi to "correct its mistakes" as soon as possible by pulling back troops. China also claimed that India was "misleading the public" by saying that Chinese troops are building a road close to the Chicken's Neck in the Sikkim sector which could endanger India's access to its north-eastern states. "I want to point that the relevant actions by the Indian side violated the purposes and principles of the UN Charter in defiance of the international law and international norms. As we all know in 1950s China, India and Myanmar proposed the five principles (Panchsheel) of co-existence," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen Shuang told reporters here. "However to the surprise of everyone, the...