New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has refused to allow a Chinese national and Vivo executive facing prosecution in a money laundering case to travel home to visit his critically ill father, holding that humanitarian considerations alone could not outweigh the need to secure his presence during trial, particularly in the absence of an extradition treaty or Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between India and China. A single-judge bench of Justice Madhu Jain dismissed the applicati…
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New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) China would face huge economic costs due to the disruption of trade if it blockades or invades Taiwan, according to a report by a Washington think tank.The report, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies titled Troubled Straits: Analyzing Trade Chokepoints in the South China Sea, states, “Military action by China that disrupts the Taiwan Strait could harm China’s economy even more severely than a disruption of the Malacca Strait.”It highlights t…
Paris, May 26 (IANS) A leading international press freedom organisation has called on the international community to ensure full freedom for Chinese journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin, who is set to be released on September 18 this year after spending nearly five years behind bars — all for her reporting on gender-based violence and human rights violations in China. Expressing grave concerns, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that Sophia would still face deprivation of political rights, includi…
New Delhi/Dewas, May 21 (IANS) In a major breakthrough in the Tonkkala firecracker factory blast case, Dewas police have arrested the main accused, Mukesh Vij, from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, an official said.Vij was returning from Guangzhou, China, when the special police team nabbed him on Thursday morning using a Look Out Circular and other intelligence inputs. A tragic incident recently occurred at a firecracker unit in Tonkkala area of Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district, …
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) China’s Ambassador Xu Feihong on Wednesday expressed Beijing’s readiness to strengthen strategic alignment, deepen practical cooperation and enhance people-to-people exchanges with India as both countries marked the 76th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic ties. “Today marks the 76th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and India. China and India are neighbours that cannot be moved apart. It is the right choice for bo…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) India’s largest airline firm, IndiGo, on Monday announced the launch of its daily non-stop service between Kolkata and Shanghai, further strengthening air connectivity between India and China.The airline said the new route marks a significant milestone in its international expansion and builds on the recent resumption of flights from Kolkata and Delhi to Guangzhou.The Kolkata-Shanghai service is being operated using Airbus A320neo aircraft.With the addition of Shanghai…
Mumbai, Feb 13 (IANS) China’s nationwide primary property sales are expected to fall 10–14 per cent as a persistent glut of completed housing keeps a market recovery out of reach, a new report has said.The report from S&P Global said the completed primary inventory rose for the sixth year in a row to 766 million square metres by 2025 end, up 1.6 per cent (year-on-year).Completed inventory at end-2025 was 45 per cent higher than the 10-year average prior to the downturn, the report further …
Beijing, Jan 21 (IANS) A team of Chinese researchers has developed an autonomous robotic system that is capable of performing delicate eye injections within the confined space of the human eye.The surgery robot, developed by a team from the Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, can potentially enhance the precision and safety of surgeries used to treat debilitating retinal diseases, Xinhua news agency reported.In the paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the t…