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29 dead as Gujarat receives heavy rainfall, more showers predicted over next two days | 'Enough is enough': President Droupadi Murmu expresses anguish over RG Kar case | Bengal junior doctors reject Mamata Banerjee's appeal to resume work, says CM's words seemed like 'passive threat' | 'How dare you threaten Assam?' Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Mamata Banerjee on her 'burn' remark | Himachal Pradesh passes bill to raise women's minimum age for marriage to 21 years | S Jaishankar, Alberto van Klaveren discuss trade and investment during 2nd India-Chile Joint Commission | Supreme Court reiterates 'bail is a rule and jail the exception' observation | RG Kar: 'I don't want to take action,' says Mamata Banerjee urging protesting junior doctors to resume work | Mamata Banerjee demands justice in RG Kar case, slams CBI for no progress in probe | BJP wants to dilute justice for RG Kar demand: Mamata Banerjee on Bengal bandh

Whistleblower claims Chinese Communist Party pays off Vatican $2 billion annually for its silence on Chinese atrocities

Jun 30, 2020, at 10:40 pm

Exiled Chinese dissident Guo Wengei has alleged that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “allocates $2 billion a year” to pay off the Vatican for its silence concerning atrocities carried out by Beijing.

COVID-19:  China provides medical equipment to Bangladesh 

Jun 30, 2020, at 05:27 pm

Dhaka/UNI: China has provided medical equipment as assistance to Bangladesh for preventing corona pandemic.

EU deplores China's approval of Hong Kong security bill - European Council

Jun 30, 2020, at 04:19 pm

Moscow/Sputnik: The European Union has deplored China's approval of the new national security bill for Hong Kong and criticized the legislation as detrimental to the Hong Kong autonomy, European Council President Charles Michel said on Tuesday.

US National Security Advisor slams China, calls Xi Jinping a successor of Joseph Stalin

Jun 30, 2020, at 12:59 am

Washington: US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien recently launched an attack on China and likened the country's president Xi Jinping to dictator Joseph Stalin.

Nepal: Students protest against China as land encroachment reports emerge

Jun 30, 2020, at 12:28 am

Kathmandu: Despite the ruling Nepali government's show of growing amity with China and bitterness with age-old friend India in recent times, students of the Himalayan nation protested against Beijing on Monday.

Hong Kong police to deploy up to 4,000 officers due to possible protests : Reports

Jun 29, 2020, at 11:36 pm

Beijing/Sputnik: Police in Hong Kong intend to deploy up to 4,000 officers to the streets on July 1 in anticipation of possible protests over banned pro-democracy march, local media reported on Monday.

European Union, US agree to launch dialogue on China, CCP threat: Pompeo

Jun 29, 2020, at 10:01 am

Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the United States and the European Union have agreed to launch a dialogue on China to address the threat of the Chinese Communist Party.

Britain must act against China's intention to destroy Hong Kong's autonomy: UK MP Stewart McDonald

Jun 29, 2020, at 09:27 am

London: United Kingdom MP Stewart McDonald has asked the UK government to act against the Chinese government's intention to destroy  Hong Kong’s autonomy.

UN experts call for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in China  

Jun 28, 2020, at 08:28 pm

Geneva: UN independent experts have repeatedly communicated with the Government of the People’s Republic of China their alarm regarding the repression of fundamental freedoms in China. 

US puts Pakistan on the ‘Tier 2 Watch List’ on its trafficking scale

Jun 28, 2020, at 03:59 pm

Washington: Stating that the Government of Pakistan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, the US downgraded the south Asian country to  the ‘Tier 2 Watch List’ on the country trafficking scale.

US places China in Tier 3 category in TIP report

Jun 27, 2020, at 11:04 pm

Washington: In its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, the US has claimed that  the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the state-owned companies are making their employees work in  "horrendous conditions" on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects.

Hong Kong crisis: Pro-democracy leaders voice concern over prospect of indefinite detention without trial under new law

Jun 27, 2020, at 10:58 pm

Hong Kong: Amid protests and tensions in the city,  Hong Kong democrats have now voiced concern over the security secretary’s failure to clarify whether suspects arrested under the impending national security law could be detained indefinitely without trial or charge, media reports said.

Independent UN rights experts call for decisive measures to protect ‘fundamental freedoms’ in China

Jun 27, 2020, at 04:52 pm

New York/IBNS: The repression of “fundamental freedoms” by the Chinese Government prompted nearly 50 UN independent experts on Friday to express their continuing alarm, urging the country to “abide by its international legal obligations”.

Security law puts Hong Kong pastors at risk of being extradited to China, warns Watch Dog

Jun 25, 2020, at 09:27 pm

Beijing: China is pushing to implement the national security law on Hong Kong and in such a scenario pro-democracy activists and religious leaders face a risk of being extradited to mainland China for trial, as per a US-based Christian watchdog.

Countries should find strategy that ceases to empower China: IPAC

Jun 24, 2020, at 06:55 pm

Washington: Stating that the Galwan standoff between Chinese and Indian Army officials has shown the return of 'major power violence' in the world, a global organisation of parliamentarians from democracies has said countries should work together to find a strategy that ceases to empower President Xi Jinping’s country.

China controlling Nepali village Rui Gaun for six decades since its capture

Jun 24, 2020, at 06:46 pm

Kathmandu: Amid growing trouble with India, a media report has emerged which showed how due to gross negligence of the Nepal government, a village in Gorkha in the mid-western part of the Himalayan nation has been under Chinese control for six decades.

Amid COVID-19 outbreak, China's dog meat festival begins

Jun 24, 2020, at 11:01 am

Despite the government's recent classification of the animals as pets rather than livestock, the dog meat festival has opened in China which is believed to be the country from where the deadly COVID-19 disease originated.

Vote in Japan to change status of disputed islands, may escalate tension with China

Jun 23, 2020, at 11:01 pm

Tokyo: The dispute between Japan and China might reach another point of tension as a Japanese city passed a bill to change the administrative name of a group of islands under its authority to officially include the name "Senkaku" for the first time.

Nepal starts border row with India to divert public attention as China captures parts of it

Jun 23, 2020, at 10:23 pm

Nepal has been engaged in a border dispute with India in recent times only to divert attention from China's move of occupying several areas in the Himalayan nation, media reports said.

China receives jolt as it loses WTO dispute against EU

Jun 23, 2020, at 11:09 am

Beijing/IBNS: China's long fought war to gain market-economy status received a jolt last week when it lost the landmark World Trade Organization dispute against the European Union, media reports said.

National security law will trigger fresh protests in Hong Kong: Joshua Wong

Jun 21, 2020, at 10:35 pm

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has said implementation of the new legislation by the Chinese government on the city may trigger protests.

China took aggressive stance as it felt threatened by India's infrastructure building in Ladakh: Gilgit Baltistan activist

Jun 20, 2020, at 10:41 pm

Washington: A  Gilgit Baltistan activist feels that India building the infrastructure projects in Ladakh region has made China feel threatened and it resorted to aggressive stance in recent times.

China creating multiple fronts like one in Ladakh to take advantage of global COVID-19 situation: US diplomat

Jun 20, 2020, at 09:48 pm

Washington: A senior US diplomat feels that China is creating multiple fronts, like the one which it attempted to create in Ladakh, to take advantage of the current situation when the world is busy combating COVID-19 outbreak.

Geneva: Tibetans hold anti-China protest at UN complex

Jun 20, 2020, at 06:45 pm

Geneva: Members of the Tibetan community from Switzerland and Lichtenstein on Friday demonstrated against China in front of the complex of the United Nations here.

Hong Kong: Draft law on national security must comply with rights obligations

Jun 20, 2020, at 04:44 pm

New York/IBNS: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday that her office was closely following developments as China’s top legislative body, the National People’s Congress, holds talks on a proposed national security law for Hong Kong.

Reconsider decision on imposing national security law on Hong Kong: G7 Foreign Ministers urge China

Jun 20, 2020, at 09:52 am

Hong Kong:  Foreign Ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) member countries have asked China to reconsider its decision to impose national security legislation on Hong Kong.

Uyghur 'Imams' most vulnerable to persecution in China, claim victims

Jun 19, 2020, at 08:22 pm

Beijing:  Uyghur victims’ families and scholars have claimed that religious leaders belonging to their community have become most vulnerable to persecution at the hands of the Chinese community in Xinjiang province of northwest China.

European Union chief diplomat calls for EU-US dialogue to counter Beijing

Jun 19, 2020, at 08:14 pm

Brussels: A key European Union diplomat this week called for talks between Europe and the US with an aim to forge a common transatlantic front against China.

China charges two Canadians with spying

Jun 19, 2020, at 05:22 pm

Beijing/UNI: Prosecutors in China on Friday have officially charged two Canadian nationals working as business executives in the country with spying.

3 killed in gas blast in China's Liaoning

Jun 19, 2020, at 04:53 pm

Shenyang/Xinhua: Three people were killed and four others injured after a gas explosion in a residential building in Dandong City, northeast China's Liaoning Province early Friday.