{"id":330554,"date":"2021-01-25T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330554"},"modified":"2021-01-25T08:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:25:44","slug":"india-china-minor-face-off-in-sikkim-resolved-by-officers-indian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-china-minor-face-off-in-sikkim-resolved-by-officers-indian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"India, China \u2018Minor Face-Off\u2019 in Sikkim, resolved by officers: Indian Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323966 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ladakh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/ladakh.jpg 608w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/ladakh-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/ladakh-538x420.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/>The Indian Army on Monday confirmed that a \u201cminor face-off\u201d occurred between Indian and Chinese troops at Naku La area in Sikkim on January 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The face-off was resolved between the two sides by officers, the Army said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is clarified that there was a minor face-off between Indian and Chinese troops at Naku La area of North Sikkim on 20th January and the same was resolved by local commanders as per established protocols,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian and Chinese soldiers involved in a physical brawl along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) last week near Naku La area in Sikkim as Chinese soldiers tried to intrude inside Indian territory but were challenged by Indian soldiers which resulted in a physical clash, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The clash resulted in injuries on both sides, sources added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Army on Monday confirmed that a \u201cminor face-off\u201d occurred between Indian and Chinese troops at Naku La area in Sikkim on January 20. The face-off was resolved between the two sides by officers, the Army said. \u201cIt is clarified that there was a minor face-off between Indian and Chinese troops at Naku La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2030,2927,2014],"tags":[666,230,4921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330556,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330554\/revisions\/330556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}