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A leading Chinese strategic thinker with close ties to the Beijing dispensation has claimed that PLA soldiers used high energy laser beams to force Indian soldiers to vacate two important peaks on the southern bank of the Pangong Tso during the ongoing border fracas. While,Barack Obama said in his memoir 'A Promised Land' that he had ruled out involving Pakistan in the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout because it was an "open secret" that certain elements inside Pakistan's military, and especially its intelligence services, maintained links to the Taliban and perhaps even al-Qaeda, sometimes using them as strategic assets against Afghanistan and India. Here is a look at the top national stories at a glance.

1. Did PLA use laser weapons on Indian soldiers on Ladakh peak?

2. Certain elements inside Pakistan military had links to al-Qaeda: Obama on raid that killed Osama

3. Sonia Gandhi to meet Advisory Committee members today over Bihar polls loss

4. DRDO conducts successful flight test of QRSAM System

5. 'Malabar-2020' wargames in the Western Indian Ocean Region

6. Delhi HC grants bail to riots accused with weak eyesight

7. Chinese journalist faces imprisonment of up to 5 yrs for reporting on COVID-19

8. 'Nabbed JeM militants were planning to kill VIPs in Delhi'

9. Nizam's kin seek FIR against grandson, his ex-wife

10. Taimur enjoys stroll on Saif's shoulders during family's trip to Dharamshala