
Indo-Tibetan Border Police Director General Shatrujeet Kapur reported ongoing face-offs with Chinese troops at multiple locations along the Arunachal Pradesh border.
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Tensions persist along the disputed India-China border, with periodic face-offs reported in various sectors.
Last week, Shatrujeet Kapur, director general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), said “confrontations with Chinese troops were continuing at multiple locations along the Arunachal Pradesh border”.
“In the past few days, a situation arose where face-off[s] happened at several locations in Arunachal and it still continues,” Kapur said at a military ceremony on Thursday, according to The Hindu.

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