The Indian Express’ UPSC weekly news express covers some of the important and burning topics of current affairs news from this week to help you prepare for UPSC-CSE. Try out the MCQs and check your answers provided towards the end of the article.
By CLAUDE ARPI How does blatantly claiming Indian territory help to maintain ‘peace in border regions’, is a mystery that only China can explain, notes Claude Arpi. China has done it again. China’s ministry of civil affairs has standardised the names of 11 places in Zangnan, a new name for Southern Tibet
On Sunday, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs put out names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh in Chinese, Tibetan and pinyin characters. Why is China giving names to places that are in India?