On 9 October, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that terrorism and bilateral relations cannot go hand in hand, and thus, China will have to choose between India and Pakistan.

The BJP made this comment after Beijing tried to defend its second technical hold to prevent a United Nations ban on Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar.

"There is no middle path in the fight against terrorism and China will have to decide which side it is on. It will have to make up its mind whether it is going to side with terrorism just because they want to strengthen their relations with a particular country, and, how far is that going to serve humanity, and, how far is that going to serve Indo-China relations," BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli told ANI.

Jawaharlal Nehru University' top decision making body has for the second time rejected a proposal of introducing short-term courses in Indian culture and yoga.

The proposal to introduce three short-term courses in these subjects had come last year against the backdrop of right-wing organisations, including RSS, insisting on propagation of culture in educational campuses to promote India's rich heritage and restore its cultural identity.

Following various communications from the HRD Ministry and the University Grants Commission (UGC), JNU had last year circulated a draft of three courses among its various schools and departments for their feedback.

The proposal was rejected by the Academic Council (AC), the university's statutory decision making body, in November.

Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, on 8 October condemned lewd remarks made by Trump about groping women in 2005. She termed the remarks as "unacceptable and offensive.

Melania Trump, however, asked the people of America to accept her husband's apologies.

"The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me. This does not represent the man that I know," Melania Trump said in a statement.

"He has the heart and mind of a leader. I hope people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world," she added.

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump was forced to apologise after a shocking footage from 2005 surfaced in which he can be seen unabashedly bragging about trying to sleep with a married woman and being able to grope women as well.

Justifying its move to blockade a tributary of the Brahmaputra to construct a dam, China today sought to allay apprehensions that it would effect the river flow into India saying that there will be no adverse impact on downstream areas.

Terming the Lalho dam project on the Xiabuqu river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra which is locally called as Yarlung Zangbo, as an important livelihood project to address food security and flood safety in Tibet, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the tributary river is located completely within the Chinese side.

"The reservoir capacity of the project is less than 0.02 per cent of the average annual runoff of the Yarlung Zangbo- Brahmaputra. It cannot have an adverse impact on the downstream," Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a written reply to PTI when asked about India's concerns over the dam.