CHINESE Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived unannounced on a short visit to New Delhi last week to gauge any convergence in India’s views towards China on the new global alignments taking shape amid the Russia-Ukraine war. Prior to visiting New Delhi, Wang went to Islamabad to attend the Organisa
The members of China’s powerful Politburo Standing Committee generally tend to take a consensual approach on foreign policy issues. But when issues concern Russia (or the Soviet Union earlier), they tend to cause acute differences among them. Putin’s war on Ukraine is having the same effect now, just as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) begins its ‘two sessions’ (parliament
In budget 2022-23, Nirmala Sitharaman gave Rs 27,274 crore to Jammu and Kashmir and Rs 3097.14 crore to Ladakh. The allocations have increased by Rs 877 crore from the last budget.