Criticising the Indian media, China has said the reports of construction of a dam by it on the Brahmaputra river are inconsistent with facts.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has denied reports of incursions into the Indian territory by their troops. According to media reports, Chinese Foreign ministry has said that charges of incursions are groundless as they never happened.
Hide and seekThe Cabinet Committee on Security met today and expressed concerns about the spurt in the frequency of incursions by Chinese Army into Indian territory crossing the Line of Actual Control between the two countries.
Admitting that a Chinese military helicopter had violated Indian airspace in Jammu and Kashmir two months back, Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor today said New Delhi has taken up the matter with Beijing. He, however, said reports of more than one incursion by Chinese helicopters were “incorrect”.
Chinese troops entered nearly 1.5 kilometres into Indian territory in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on July 31. Intruding Chinese soldiers painted boulders and rocks with red spray paint, writing the word ‘China’ in Cantonese, official sources said on Sunday, report
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See popupReports of Chinese incursions in the Ladakh area of Jammu and Kashmir, which are now being highlighted by the media, are in fact as old as January 2009, according to an official communication sent that month by the district magistrate of Leh to his superiors in the state.