Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Saturday during the BRICS summit in New Delhi.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed concerns around border dispute and the trade imbalance.

India allocates around 25 per cent of its overall defence budget to capital expenditure, according to Jefferies. Capital spending finances military equipment, platforms, weapons systems, infrastructure and modernisation.

India and China are tangled in yet another border dispute, angering locals in the eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

By Florence Tan and Emily Chow BANGKOK, Sept 15 (Reuters) - LNG demand from China, India and Pakistan is likely to rebound from multi-year lows once the Middle East supply crunch ends and new supplies emerge,

China sees the group as a vehicle for challenging American power. India wants to keep the group broad enough to avoid choosing sides.

Another big difference is in how China builds up expertise about the outside world. Until 2022 research about a country or region was spread across disciplines—a scholar might study India in the department of history before taking a doctorate in political science.

On social media, claims that Chinese President Xi Jinping and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, are sick after the Brics Summit are spreading like wildfire. The wave of speculation prompted the Ministry of External Affairs to issue a clarification,