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Sino-India ties a factor of stability: India

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New Delhi | India on Wednesday said its engagement with China has expanded in recent years and both countries are engaged in trying to find a mutually acceptable solution to issues having differences.

Indian Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh told the lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, that relations between India and China are a factor of stability and that the two countries must not allow their differences to become disputes.

In the last few months, the Asian giants have been making efforts to expand cooperation in a range of areas and boost overall ties which had come under severe strain in the wake of a 73-day-long standoff between militaries of the two countries in Doklam last year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping had held an informal summit in the Chinese city of Wuhan in April during which they resolved to solidify the bilateral ties.

“In our multifaceted engagement with China, in areas where we have a commonality of views, engagement has expanded and upgraded in recent years,” Singh said in a written reply to a question. “Issues where there are differences are being handled through dialogue to seek a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution based on mutual respect and sensitivity to each other’s interests, concerns and aspirations,” he said.

Singh said both sides have been working towards utilising their bilateral dialogue mechanisms to promote mutually beneficial cooperation in a wide range of areas. The two countries have been focusing on ramping up cooperation in a range of areas including in trade, investment and pharmaceuticals.

“Both sides agree that progress in bilateral relations should be guided by the consensus reached between their leaders that a time of global uncertainty, India-China relations are a factor of stability and that the two countries must not allow their differences to become disputes,” he said.

Both the countries are engaged in talks to resolved the vexed border dispute. India asserts that the border dispute covered about 4,000 km, while China claims that it confined to about 2,000 km to the area of Arunachal Pradesh, which it refers as Southern Tibet.

On ties with Bhutan, Singh said the cooperation includes a wide range of areas including border management and security, trade, education and generation of hydropower.

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22-year-old lynched in Barmer over alleged affair with married woman: police

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Barmer | A 22-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death on the suspicion of him being in an illicit relationship with a married woman in Rajasthan’s Barmer district following which the prime accused was arrested today, police said. The prime accused, Amar Khan,was arrested today, they said.

“Two other accused, Pathai Khan and Anwar Khan, were arrested yesterday and sent to seven days in police remand by a court. The others accused of lynching the 22-year-old youth Khetaram Bheel on suspicions of illicit relationship will be arrested soon,” Barmer SP Rameshwar Lal Meghwal said. He said the prime accused Amar Khan allegedly strangulated Bheel after beating him.

Bheel, resident of Bhinde-ka-Paar village, was allegedly beaten to death, his hands and legs tied, by nearly a dozen men on the night of July 20 and his body was found the next day around 500 meters from the spot, another police official said.

DSP, Chautan, Surendra Kumar Prajapat said Bheel had allegedly entered into an illicit affair with a married woman. Bheel was already married with three children. Prajapat said Bheel was chased, beaten and strangulated and his body was thrown in the fields of Bhinde-ka-Paar village. There were injuries on Bheel’s body including strangulation marks, he added.

We are investigating the call detail records of the suspects, which will help in establishing links of the crime, Prajapat said. A case was registered at the Ramgarh police station in Barmer, according to officials.

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