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India rejects China’s renaming of places along disputed border

A liquefied petroleum gas delivery truck drives along India's Tezpur-Tawang highway which runs to the Chinese border, in the north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh on 29th May, 2012.

New Delhi, India/Beijing, China Reuters India on Tuesday rejected the renaming by China of places in what India regards as its eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims as part of its territory. China and India fought a war along parts of their poorly demarcated 3,800 kilometre frontier in 1962 and clashes in mountainous […]

Indian state’s ‘anti-conversion law’ to be repealed

Prema Kandu cuts ribbon with bishops

World Watch Monitor Christian groups have welcomed a surprise announcement by a nationalist chief minister of a state in north-east India that he will ensure that a law preventing conversions from one faith to another is repealed. Pema Khandu, a Buddhist who heads the nationalist BJP-led state government in Arunachal Pradesh, told an audience of […]