Sikkim is still a country for China

By Dipankar Chakraborty New Delhi, August 25 - Call it a bizarre show of ignorance or a deliberate ploy to drag Sikkim into a fresh controversy, the Chinese government, in its latest publication has not shown the state as a part of India but as an independent country along with Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar. The Chinese government from time to time has been making claims to a part of Sikkim. A closure was achieved... [read full story]