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China Foreign Minister First Visit To India , After 2020 Clash

 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet his Indian counterpart in New Delhi on Friday, India’s foreign ministry said, after he arrived in the capital on the first visit by a top Chinese official since border clashes in 2020.

Wang will meet Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at 11 a.m, a ministry spokesperson told Reuters, without giving details. Media said he had already met India’s powerful national security adviser, Ajit Doval.

The top Chinese diplomat visited Pakistan and Afghanistan this week and is set to fly to Nepal later in the day on a whirlwind tour of South Asia where China is trying to deepen its influence.

Relations between old rivals India and China took a serious turn for the worse with a June 2020 clash in the Ladakh region on their Himalayan border in which at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers were killed.

Jaishankar noted in a speech on Thursday the deterioration in ties and stressed the importance of the coordination of foreign and defence policies, which he said were “joined at the hip”.

“Few would have anticipated … the turn that India’s relations with China have taken in the last two years,” he said.

“Any prudent policy therefore backs its posture with capabilities and deterrence. A big responsibility of Indian diplomacy, therefore, is to create the widest set of options for such contingencies.”

Neither China nor India announced Wang’s visit before he landed in New Delhi late on Thursday.

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The Kashmir Files: IAS Officer Served Show Cause-Notice Over His Tweets

Aleesha Sam

Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government issued a show-cause notice to IAS officer Niyaz Khan on Thursday, March 24, claiming that his tweets on the film The Kashmir Files amounted to hate speech and breached service rules.

Khan, a deputy secretary with the state Public Works Department (PWD), told PTI that he had got the notification and that he had seven days to respond.

“The Kashmir Files shows the pain of Brahmins. They should be allowed to live safely in Kashmir with honour. The producer must also make a movie to show the killings of a large number of Muslims across several states. Muslims are not insects but human beings and citizens of [the] country,” he had tweeted, prompting strong opposition from the government in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led state.

Director Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files, which focuses on the events surrounding the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits between the late 1980s and early 1990s, has triggered a myriad of responses, including anti-Muslim hate speeches and sloganeering in theatres.

Khan had also appealed to the producer of the film to donate the earnings from the film for the education of the children of Kashmiri Pandits and construction of homes for them in Kashmir.

Speaking to media on 23 March, the state’s Home Minister, Narottam Mishra, had said that he (Niyaz Khan) was crossing the limits (Lakshman Rekha) and that a show-cause notice would be served on him.

Earlier, responding to Khan’s tweet, the state’s Medical Education Minister, Vishvas Sarang, had accused him of ‘Firqa Parasti’ (sectarianism), adding that he should be removed from the PWD.

“Any administrative officer should concentrate on his duty. Talking about anarchy and animosity in this way, talking about Hindu-Muslim in this way, their thinking behind the scenes trying to establish themselves among a class of people not good,” he had said.

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