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New Delhi: After China announced ‘standardised’ names for 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh, India on Thursday asserted that assigning “invented names” does not alter the facts on the ground. On Thursday, the Global Times reported that China’s ministry of civil affairs had announced standardised names in Chinese characters, Tibetan and Roman alphabet for 15 places in ‘ Zangnan ’ (or South Tibet), Beijing’s term for Arunachal Pradesh. Eight of the names are for inhabited areas, four are for mountains, two for rivers and a mountain pass. “Arunachal Pradesh has always been, and will always be an integral part of India,”...
