Highlights 1 Army Chief reaches Sikkim amid standoff between Indian, Chinese armies. 3 The standoff erupted after China removed an old bunker of the Indian Army. Army Chief General Bipin Rawat reached Gangtok in Sikkim on Thursday morning amid a standoff between Indian troops and Chinese army along the Sino-India border in the sensitive sector which is threatening to further strain the bilateral ties. The genesis of the latest face-off is understood to have had a link to Donglang, a narrow but strategically important tri-junction of India, China and Bhutan. Nathu La passTaking a dig at India, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said that Bhutan is a universally recognised sovereign country.

Source: India Today June 29, 2017 08:26 UTC