India seeks to secure Arunachal Pradesh

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India seeks to secure Arunachal Pradesh According to a September 2, 2020, report by Reuters, India has moved troops to its eastern stretch of border with China since clashes erupted between the nuclear-armed rivals on the western part of their border in the Himalayas in June, a government official said. India's GPD growth heading towards a massive fall Ambani is tapping the backers of his digital services business, which has secured $20 billion in recent months, as he seeks funding for Reliance Retail. Silver Lake Partners, an investor in Jio Platforms Ltd., last week agreed to chip in $1 billion. When animals were used as spies On August 31, a herd of yaks crossed over from Chinese territory into India. Many have then claimed that China may be using the yaks for spying. The Indian Army has now returned the yaks to their Chinese owners but this is not the first time that animals are being allegedly used as spies. Here's a look at past incidents. Investors line up for Mukesh Ambani's RIL According to a report by Bloomberg, investor demand for Reliance Industries Ltd.'s retail business is so strong that Carlyle Group Inc. and SoftBank Group Corp. are among those that have been put onto a waiting list, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump and a 200 year old law controversy In US, state governors generally have the authority to maintain order within state borders. However, under the Insurrection Act, the president can send in the military to suppress a domestic insurrection that has hindered the normal enforcement of US law. Meet Yoshihide Suga, Japan's next PM to be 71-year-old Yoshihide Suga won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership race on Monday and is all but certain to win a parliamentary vote later this week and replace outgoing premier Shinzo Abe. Coronavirus pandemic brings loneliness crisis among the elderly to the fore Social contacts suffered too, with 46 percent of older adults reporting in June that they infrequently interacted with friends, neighbours or family outside their household - doing so once a week or less -- compared with 28 per cent who said this in 2018. Perfectly frozen remains of a 39,000-year-old Ice Age bear found in Russia A preliminary analysis indicated that the adult bear lived 22,000 to 39,500 years ago. A radiocarbon analysis to determine the precise age of the bear, scientists said. Rapid climate change: Greenland's 110 square kilometers ice cap breaks off Until the turn of the 21st century, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets generally accumulated as much mass as they shed. But over the last two decades ago, the gathering pace of global warming has upended this balance. Astronomers spot possible signs of microbial life on Venus's clouds Researchers have speculated for decades that high clouds on Venus could offer a home for microbes -- floating free of the scorching surface, but still needing to tolerate very high acidity.

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