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The National Council of Educational Research and Training has decided to replace the map of East and South East Asia of the Class XII Political Science textbook, which depicted "aksai chin" as a disputed area. NCERT said the map was prepared by the University of Texas.

“The map on page 56 is not a map of India, but a map of East and South East Asia. It was prepared by the University of Texas... mentioned at the bottom. The map states ‘boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative,” NCERT said.

After the new Chinese e-passports showed Arunachal and aksai chin as part of China, the Indian mission started issuing visas with Indian maps including these places as its territories.

Tourism minister Mahesh Sharma on Wednesday said if there was a pilgrimage centre in aksai chin, it would have been a different story and the Chinese would not have dared to illegally occupy the territory.

Experts see the Chinese proposal for the observatory as an attempt to complicate the aksai chin dispute by drawing in Japan and South Korea.

India termed as "unacceptable" and took retaliatory action over China depicting Arunachal and aksai chin as its territory in its passport maps.

BJP's Tamil Nadu unit accuses the ruling DMK of posting a map excluding Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and aksai chin, labelling it a betrayal of India's sovereignty. The BJP condemns this act, alongside past anti-national activities attributed to DMK. They demand an unconditional apology from DMK chief MK Stalin and call for national unity to protect India's integrity.

China-headquartered Lenovo has supplied laptops to the Income Tax department, with maps showing aksai chin as part of China.

A new study has revealed that there were fewer Chinese incursions in the eastern sector compared to the western and middle sectors. It stated that there was no incursion in three years and only one in eight years in the eastern sector.

ndia on Thursday said that repeated incursions by Chinese troops into its territory "do not augur well" for maintaining cordial bilateral ties and accused China of illegally occupying aksai chin.

The United States Trade Representative's announcement on February 6 of the interim US-India trade deal was accompanied with a map that depicted the entire Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir as part of India. The catch is that three days later, the post isn't visible on X

Foreign minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday slammed China for another act of cartographic aggression that saw Beijing again releasing a “standard” map of the country, which showed Arunachal Pradesh and aksai chin in it, and said such absurd claims would not help China take over these territories.

India hosts several mysterious and inaccessible locations such as the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, North Sentinel Island, and aksai chin. These sites remain off-limits due to reasons like national security, preservation of indigenous cultures, and geopolitical tensions, making them intriguing yet forbidden destinations.

A new book examines the history of the two nations that led to the war in 1962 and when the first signs of intrusions on the border began to be noticed

Saudi Arabia used an inaccurate map of India during a presentation at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit on Wednesday. The business presentation, ‘Saudi Arabia-Investing Our Opportunities’, featured a map of India that didn’t include POK and aksai chin, a part of Kashmir occupied by China.

On the day of Pushkar Singh Dhami’s swearing-in as the new CM of Uttarakhand on Sunday, netizens dug up an old tweet of his in which he had posted the image of a map of “akhand bharat” (undivided India), captioning it “every nation lover’s dream.” The tweet was done on August 14, 2015, a day before Independence Day. Several netizens pointed out that the map included parts of several of India’s neighbouring countries to the East, while PoK, aksai chin and even Ladakh were missing.

Three days after TOI pointed out a major gaffe in Himachal Pradesh's official roadmap of India, the state government suspended three officers for the blooper.

Indian Air Force (IAF) made operational the Daulatbeg Oldi (DBO) airbase in mountainous Ladakh region, close to Chinese-occupied aksai chin area, after a gap of 43 years.

"Kashmir is an integral part of India, there is no doubt over it. When I talk about Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan occupied Kashmir and aksai chin are included in it and can die for it," Amit Shah snapped back at Leader of Congress party Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary.

Ming Pao, a Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong, has caused some amount of embarrasment for Chinese authorities by saying that Beijing was prepared to give up its claims over Arunachal Pradesh

The first mission to map Kashmir would’ve been stalled had this maharaja not stepped in

Pursuing the theme of 75 Years of Independence and Armed Forces, the 4th session of the Military Lit Fest on Sunday was devoted to the decade of 60s, when India faced two wars- 1962 Indo China war and 1965 Indo Pak war, a few insurgencies and rise of naxalism.

The Lok Sabha passed legislations to extend women's reservation to the assemblies of Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry. The opposition used the debate as an opportunity to demand early statehood and elections in J&K. Home Minister Amit Shah questioned a TMC MP's remark calling Ayodhya, Article 370 repeal, and Uniform Civil Code as "communal". Shah defended the UCC, stating that it was included in the Directive Principles by the Constituent Assembly. Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury asked for a timeline to reclaim PoK and aksai chin before the Lok Sabha polls.