China will host the 2022 Asian Games in 2023, organisers said yesterday, after postponing the event in Hangzhou because of COVID. The Games will now be held in Hangzhou from Sept. 23 to Oct. 8, 2023, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said. The event was originally scheduled to be held in September this year,…
Plane carrying 133 crashes in China; casualties unknown
March 21, 2022Beijing: China Eastern passenger jet carrying 133 people has crashed in southwest China with an unknown number of casualties, state broadcaster CCTV reported today. The Boeing 737 plane crashed near Wuzhou city, Guangxi region and “caused a mountain fire”, CCTV said, adding that rescue teams were dispatched to the scene. It is unknown how many…
A Chinese Memory Revived
May 17, 2021By Girija Madhavan Browsing through the internet, a photo from a bygone era caught my eye: Pandit Nehru with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, also called Chou Enlai [1898-1976]. His chiselled features and thick, black eyebrows, brought back memories of seeing him long ago, in person in Beijing [known as Peking earlier]. My husband, A. Madhavan…
Modi’s will power and Army’s grit forced Chinese troops out, says MP
March 28, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political will and the courage of the Indian Army, drove the Chinese Army from the country’s borders, BJP Yuva Morcha National President Tejasvi Surya, who is also Bengaluru South MP, said that Modi has scripted a new horizon for the country through his work. He was speaking at…
Vande Bharat beats China, Covid
August 4, 2020By T.J.S. George India’s view of, and dealings with, China are becoming curiouser and curiouser. Suddenly we are told that dozens of Chinese apps have been banned. Reasons cited include security and privacy. How come these became issues only now? For long China, like all other topics, has been a provider of opportunities for our…
Re-visiting Shashi Tharoor’s advice on India-China border dispute
June 22, 2020I am no politician, yet in a democracy every citizen with a voting right is a politician. After all, he has chosen his Government. This is the simple reason I ventured to contemplate on what was happening in Ladakh at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between our forces and that of China. Thank God,…
Govt. forms Task Force to attract MNCs leaving China
May 13, 2020Bengaluru: With many Multi-National Companies (MNCs) opting to leave China following the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the Karnataka Government has wasted no time in constituting an Investment Promotion Task Force to attract companies and manufacturers leaving China. Large and Medium Scale Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar had held a meeting in this regard a…
Misinformation virus (Coronavirus)
February 8, 2020As we stepped into the New Year, we were welcomed by a new strain of Coronavirus (CoV). A virus named so because the protein spikes around the virus makes it look like a crown and in Latin corona means crown. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from common cold to…
The demon called Coronavirus
February 3, 2020The demon will soon be defeated “World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend evacuation of foreign nationals, and called on the international community to remain calm and not overreact. WHO is confident in China’s epidemic prevention and control ability.” The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide,” says the Chinese President…
Cornavirus eclipses Lunar New Year holiday in China
January 24, 2020Beijing: The death toll in China’s viral outbreak of the Cornavirus has risen to 25 with the number of confirmed cases leaping to 830, the government said on Friday. The respiratory virus emerged from a seafood and animal market in the central city of Wuhan which has a population of 11 million. Cases have been…
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