IN A FIRST, INDIA & CHINA JOINTLY PATROL DISPUTED AREA ALONG LAC

NEW DELHI: India and China are for the first time patrolling FishTail II, one of the 13 disputed areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in south-east ArunachalPradesh, incoordination with each other in an attempt to build mutual confidence and maintain peace along the border, a senior official in the security establishment said on condition of anonymity.

Fish Tail-I and II are in the easternmost corner of Arunachal Pradesh. Fish Tail -I is largely glaciated terrain, and patrols from either side are few and far between.

Theproposalfor“coordinated patrolling” was made by India at ahigh-levelmeetingbetweenthe Chinese People’s Liberation Army and the Indian army in June in the run-up to the informalsummitbetweenPrime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mamallapuram,Tamil Nadu, earlier this month.

The two sides met in Arunachal’s Kibuthu, one of the seven designated border personnel meeting points.

NEW DELHI: Jammu & Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik has beenshiftedtoGoa,andexpenditure secretary Girish Chandra MurmuwillreplacehiminSrinagar as the Lieutenant Governor, RashtrapatiBhawanannounced onFriday.Maliktookoverasgovernor on August 23 last year.

A 1985 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Murmu was additional principal secretary to Narendra Modi during his days as Gujarat chief minister between 2010 and 2014. He was promoted as a joint secretary in the ministry of finance in 2015 and became expenditure secretary in May this year.

Murmu’sappointmentcomes

BADLAPUR: A 35-year-old woman allegedly strangled her eightyear-old son to death, early on Thursday. The police arrested Sheetal Maner, a homemaker, who confessed to the crime and said she was struggling financially after separating from her husband.

Sheetal and her son, Arnav, were living with her sister, Shweta Shirsat, 28, in Badlapur East.

Sheetal separated from her husband, Vaibhav, a resident of Vikhroli,18monthsagoandtheir divorceproceedingsareongoing. They weremarried 10 years ago.

According to Shweta’s statementtothepolice,shereceiveda callfromSheetalaround5.30am, saying she had killed Arnav. Shweta,whowasathermother’s residence in Diva, alerted the police and her mother, Manda Shirsat,53,whowasonnightduty at Thane Central Jail.

Shirsatthenrushedbackwith her mother. When they reached the house, they found Arnav dead.Bythen,thepolice,too,had reached the spot.

“Manersaidshekilledherson as she was depressed and was worriedaboutherson’sfutureas she was a homemaker,” said HarshalKulkarni, investigation officer, Badlapur police station. “Theboy’sbodywashandedover tohisfatherforthefinalrites. We areyettorecordhisstatementas he is in a state of shock. He said that Sheetal and he had differences, which is why they separated.”

Shweta said Sheetal was undergoingtreatmentfordepression. “She used to say that the separationhadleftherdisturbed. She was always worried about herson’seducation.Herhusband would never send money. He nevercalledheranddidn’tbother to ask about his son,” said Shweta.

Sheetalhasbeenbookedunder section302(murder)oftheIndian Penal Code (IPC). She was produced in court and remanded in police custody till October 28.