News Snapshot:
The Indian government on Tuesday night dismissed reports that the Chinese military had used microwave weapons against Indian soldiers during the border standoff in eastern Ladakh, forcing a retreat. British daily The Times, among other publications,reported on Tuesday that a professor at the Renmin University in Beijing had claimed during a lecture that Chinese troops turned two strategic hilltops “into a microwave ovenâ€, forcing Indian soldiers to retreat. These positions were “retaken†by Chinese soldiers without an exchange of fire, the professor added, according to The Times . The newspaper offered no corroboration for these claims. Later on Tuesday, India’s...