India and China have held seven rounds of military talks at the Corps commander level with the latest meeting on Monday lasting nearly 12 hours
There is no official word on the talks yet but sources said the agenda was to finalise a roadmap for disengagement of troops from all the friction points
India has been maintaining that the disengagement process has to start simultaneously at all the friction points
The Indian delegation at the talks is likely to be headed by Lt Gen Harinder Singh, the commander of the Leh-based 14 Corps of the Indian Army
Corps commanders of the two sides held a nearly 14-hour-long meeting on September 21 following which they announced a slew of decisions to de-escalate the tense situation
Srivastava said it is the Chinese side which by its attempts to transgress the LAC in various parts of the Western Sector has tried to unilaterally alter the status quo
China's two aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong have completed routine training and sea trials, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday.
The two sides also mentioned the harsh winter in the Ladakh region beginning October when temperatures fall upto minus 25 degree Celsius and oxygen becomes scarce, the sources said
The government sources said the talks began at around 9 am in Moldo on the Chinese side of LAC across India's Chushul sector in eastern Ladakh and ended at 11 PM
Chinese army fired "warning shots" in the air at the North Bank of Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh last week to "intimidate" the Indian troops ahead of the talks between the two countries in Moscow
Such cables, which would provide forward troops with secure lines of communication to bases in the rear, have recently been spotted to the south of Pangong Tso lake
The Indian Army has occupied several key heights in the strategically located Rezang-La and Reqin-La areas on the southern bank of the lake since the end of August
Sources said the Chinese Army has deployed close to 50,000 troops along with heavy tanks and artillery.
The other countries are Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania, Angola, and Tajikistan, the report said on Tuesday
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The SFF was raised in November 1962 in the aftermath of India's crushing defeat by China
The defense ministry in New Delhi said on Monday its soldiers were able to stop a push by Chinese troops to claim more ground late Saturday in violation of existing agreements
The ministry said it had tracked the PLA fighters with its land-based anti-aircraft missiles and had "strongly driven them out".
The above measures were aimed at improving the mechanisation and intelligence of meal making, reduce the labour intensity and energy consumption of cooking
Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a bitter standoff in several areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh since May 5