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By Moushumi Das Gupta, Deputy Editor

India and China have agreed to resume patrolling to the “agreed perceived Line of Actual Control,” including in Depsang Plains and Demchok, though there is unlikely to be any immediate thinning down of troops other than those pulled back in the winter as is the norm.

The resumption of patrolling along the LAC, which will come to a halt again once the winter sets in, is the first step to full-scale disengagement. There would be a reduction of troops in the winter, as has been the practice over the last four years, and during this time both countries would continue to discuss complete disengagement, Snehesh Alex Philip reports.

The killing of Maharashtra politician Baba Siddique allegedly by members of Punjab’s Lawrence Bishnoi gang, has put the spotlight on the long-pending Punjab Control of Organised Crime Act, a stringent law aimed at reining in organised crime in the state. The contentious law — modelled on the controversial Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act — was first proposed by the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government in 2016, but it is yet to see the light of day despite an increase in organised crime in the state, Chitleen K Sethi reports.

Down south, after Chandrababu, now Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin has urged people to have more kids, linking the dip in population to fears over delimitation. This comes two days after Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu said people in southern states should have more children to combat the region’s declining population, reports Prabhakar Tamilarasu.

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Opinion

Despite innumerable complaints from India about Khalistanis issuing threats to our diplomatic personnel in Canada and doing their best to revive the separatist movement in Punjab, Canada has done nothing. Instead, Trudeau has pushed ahead to appeal to his Khalistani supporters. When he decided to accuse India of organising the murder of one such separatist, Trudeau played it for maximum effect, hoping to please his Khalistani allies, writes journalist and talk show host Vir Sanghvi.

Places like Mathura, Kashi, and Delhi have been continuously occupied, leaving archaeologists with little space to excavate. This space constraint forces vertical digging, which provides only partial information, such as the site’s chronology, but fails to recover key details like house plans or architectural features. Additionally, rapid destruction of archaeological sites, technical challenges at excavation sites, and limited funding for research further hinder the scope of archaeological understanding, writes archaeologist Disha Ahluwalia.

Video

As India and China resolve their 4-year-old standoff along the LAC in the Depsang and Demchok region, watch this episode of 'Cut The Clutter,' in which Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and Defence Editor Snehesh Alex Philip examine the reasons behind the return to status quo ante and what it means.

India's grievance 'more valid', but India as a superpower is just a 'fantasy', author & ThePrint columnist Kapil Komireddi tells Vandana Menon on the diplomatic row with Canada. Watch the full conversation in 'ThePrint Uninterrupted'