India-China dispute live updates: India keeping eye on PLA build-up at Depsang-DBO

India keeping eye on PLA build-up at Depsang-DBO

The ridgeline around Pangong Tso ranges from 14,000 to 17,000 feet. Mountain warfare is about controlling the dominating heights,” the senior Army officer said. “With operational tensions running high, our soldiers have taken to the corresponding heights facing the ridgeline occupied by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) over ‘Finger-4’ and beyond to the east,” the officer added. Amid this jostling for heights, India is also keeping track of major PLA buildup in the strategically-located Depsang-Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) sector to the north. A table-top plateau close to the critical Karakoram pass, Depsang is militarily much more important than Pangong Tso.

Meet ‘Establishment 22’, a special frontier force

Saturday night’s operation on the south bank of Pangong Tso has brought into limelight the possible role of ‘Establishment 22’, a secret force also known as the Special Frontier Force (SFF) under the administrative control of the Cabinet secretariat and the PMO.

Army strengthens its positions, from east Ladakh to Arunachal

The Army has further strengthened its positions in eastern Ladakh, as well as in other sectors right till Arunachal Pradesh, with an angry China pushing hard for Indian troops to vacate the heights they proactively occupied in the Pangong Tso-Chushul area over the weekend.

Read: Indian side violated bilateral agreements, important consensus, claims China

India has already banned 100 plus Chinese apps. We call on all freedom-loving nations & companies to join The Clean Network: US State Department quoting Keith Krach, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment

Banned 118 apps on security, surveillance, data concerns: Ravi Shankar Prasad

India is a country which sees the highest number of mobile application downloads and now the government has started focussing on 'Made in India' apps, he added. "Today we have also banned 118 more apps which were a problem for your security, surveillance...data," Prasad said while addressing a virtual conference of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum.

India bolsters presence at strategic heights of Pangong lake area; military talks inconclusive

We urge the Indian side to strictly discipline its border troops, stop all provocations, immediately withdraw all personnel who illegally trespassed across the LAC, and stop taking any actions that may escalate tensions or complicate matters: Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson

More missile tests were done in China last year than all western nations combined. If you're going to be serious, you've to use those in a way that is consistent with how nations undertake obligation under nuclear proliferation treaties: Pompeo

We are hoping for a peaceful resolution of the situation on the India-China border: US secretary of state Mike Pompeo

In July, the government barred 47 Chinese apps from operating in the country, which were largely clones of the previously 59 apps banned in June

The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures: Govt

IT ministry had received complaints from various sources, including several reports about misuse of some mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users' data to servers outside India: Govt

PUBG, WeChat: Full list of 118 apps banned by Centre

Reports of Indian troops occupying heights at Finger 4 are not correct. As part of the precautionary deployment carried out on August 30, some readjustments of our positions on North Bank of Pangong Tso Lake on our side of LAC had also been carried out: Army

Ministry of information & technology bans PUBG and 118 other mobile applications

Government blocks 118 mobile apps which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order: Govt of India

China's latest incursion bid was deliberate move to provoke India: US intelligence