By: Eastern Eye Staff
NEIGHBOURS SETTLE BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER DISPUTE CHINA and India last Saturday (9) settled a dispute over the flood-prone Brahmaputra river that flows from Tibet to Bangladesh in a sign of growing cooperation between them. India’s prime minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping signed the agreement as they began the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. “Our talks will add further vigour to the India- China friendship,” Modi said on Twitter, as the two countries try to reset troubled ties months after a border stand-off. The SCO, launched in 2001 mainly to combat radical Islam and other security concerns across…
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