Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Beijing ups the rhetoric, face-off risks escalation
Several rounds of talks at the level of brigade commanders have not yielded any result so far The border friction between India and China is no accident but “a planned move" by New Delhi to seize territory, an article in China’s state-run Global Times said, warning the move risks escalating standoffs and conflicts between the two countries.
The article blamed India’s “illegally constructed defence facilities across the border into Chinese territory in the Galwan Valley region", for the rising tensions, with both countries bringing in reinforcements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) border in the western Ladakh sector.
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