BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held "candid and in-depth" talks to ease
tensions along their disputed frontier, Beijing said Friday, after a rare
face-to-face encounter between the two leaders.
Relations between the world two most populous countries have been in deep
freeze since a deadly Himalayan border clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers
and at least four Chinese troops in 2020.
Tens of thousands of soldiers have since been massed along both sides of the
border. They remain despite 19 rounds of talks between top military officials
of both countries.
JOHANNESBURG: Chinese President Xi Jinping assured that his country will always stay beside Bangladesh in its needs including providing support in joining the BRICS and ensuring permanent solution to the Rohingya issue.
"I will always support you (Sheikh Hasina) as you can join the BRICS," Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen quoted Xi as telling Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a bilateral talks on the sidelines of the 15th BRICS Summit.
The Chinese president also said, "China will help Bangladesh bring a permanent solution to the Rohingya issue---we do not want instability in the region".
After the meeting at the Hotel Hilton Sandton here last (Wednesday) evening, Momen said in a media briefing that Xi wants to resolve the Rohingya issue through tripartite engagement of China, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
According to Momen, the Bangladesh premier said her government wants to repatriate Rohingyas to their homeland citing that the displaced Myanmar nationals are becoming threats for the regional peace as many of them are engaged in illegal drugs and arms trading.
NEW DELHI: India began exploring the Moon surface
with a rover on Thursday, a day after it became the first nation to land a
craft near the largely unexplored lunar south pole.
Pragyan -- "Wisdom" in Sanskrit -- rolled out of the lander hours after the
latest milestone in India ambitious but cut-price space programme sparked
huge celebrations across the country.
"Rover ramped down the lander and India took a walk on the moon!" the Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on
Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG: BRICS leaders announced on Thursday
the "historic" admission of six new countries from next year as the club of
large and populous emerging economies seeks to reshape the global order.
The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- agreed at their
annual summit to make Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the
United Arab Emirates full members from January 1.
"This membership expansion is historic," said Chinese President Xi Jinping,
whose nation is the most powerful in the group of non-Western states that
represents a quarter of the world economy.
"The expansion is also a new starting point for BRICS cooperation. It will
bring new vigour to the BRICS cooperation mechanism and further strengthen
the force for world peace and development".