China and India have sought in recent weeks to ease a tense military standoff along their mountainous frontier. The drawn-out standoff, triggered by China’s furtive encroachments on the icy borderlands of India’s Ladakh region in 2020, has fostered rival military buildups and intermittent clashes along the Himalayas.

"Your currency in the world is your track record, your relationships, and your trust. And China's hurting at all three.”

India's finished steel imports from China reached an all-time high during the first eight months of the fiscal year to March 2025, provisional government data showed, adding to concerns among domestic mills about cheap shipments from China.

"Why India is better placed to lead the Global South than China," an Indian scholar wrote in an article for Indian media outlet Firstpost on Wednesday, attempting to discredit China with the "debt trap" rhetoric while praising India.

BJP’s Vijayapura MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal demanded that the police register a case against the organisers. “The publication of an incorrect map of India not only constitutes a breach of Geospatial information standards but also violates the law,” Yatnal said in a post on ‘X’.

India's steel trade deficit widens to ₹26,468 crore, with China dominating imports and European markets under stress.

India is expected to account for 25% of global oil demand growth this year and next, the EIA reckons. This year, Indian oil consumption growth is estimated at around 220,000 barrels per day (bpd), compared to China’s 90,000 bpd growth.

China and India agreed on Wednesday to work on easing their long-running border dispute, as the two Asian giants resumed a formal high-level dialogue for the first time in five years.

The overall situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is "stable" but "sensitive" and broad consensus was reached to restore the ground situation based on principles of "equal and mutual security",

China has approved a major hydropower project on Tibet’s Yarlung Zangbo River, which becomes the Brahmaputra River when it enters India. Billed as the world’s largest hydropower dam, it could generate