The Chinese leader will display his grip on the Communist party and chart his plans for his country's future.
India needs to be alert on how the Doklam standoff plays into the factional infighting in China's Communist Party, says Ambassador Shyam Saran, the former foreign secretary.
Experts said the direction is meant to maintain party unity.
The Chinese Communist Party's all important 19th Party Congress is just months away, and President Xi Jinping finds himself confronting unlikely challenges to his pre-eminent position, says former RA&W officer and China watcher Jayadeva Ranade.
It manufactures cars ranging from entry-level hatchbacks to sedans to sport utility vehicles to vans to pick-up trucks. It also has a range of electric and hybrid vehicles
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Beijing braces for a 30-year low of minus 16 degrees Celsius from Saturday through Sunday, the Beijing meteorological station said.
China's major economic problem has been that its heartland is an agricultural region with about one-third of the arable land per person as the rest of the world.
China's major economic problem has been that its heartland is an agricultural region with about one-third of the arable land per person as the rest of the world.
Over seven lakh vehicles have been recalled by various manufacturers in India since 2012.
Over seven lakh vehicles have been recalled by various manufacturers in India since 2012.
Eating out was never so much fun and seldom so strange.
If you can name it, someone collects it. Here's a gallery of collectors and their (unusual) obsessions.
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Bengaluru has been ranked among top 20 technology-rich cities in the world in a survey done by Jones Lang LaSalle.
Democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for rooting out corruption
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China on Sunday held a mourning ceremony for the victims of its worst shipping disaster in 70 years after the death toll in the cruise ship that capsized in the mighty Yangtze River jumped to 431.
The death toll in the Chinese cruise ship that capsized in the mighty Yangtze river on Saturday jumped to nearly 400 as hundreds more bodies were found by disaster teams, making it China's deadliest boat disaster in 70 years.
More than 4,000 rescue workers are racing against time to find survivors amid rough weather conditions.
A cruise ship carrying over 450 people, mostly elderly, capsized because of a cyclone in the murky waters of Asia's longest Yangtze River in China's Hubei province as rescuers on Monday raced against time to find survivors with hundreds missing and at least five dead.
Quenching his thirst while on duty proved costly for Chongqing Lifan goalkeeper Sui Weijie.
There are still a few lingering issues towards the progress of India-China bilateral relations, the approach for dealing with each other seems to be quite different. With Modi-Xi bonhomie strengthening, it seems that India and China are ready to recalibrate their approaches towards each other, says Sana Hashmi.
India and China on Friday signed a record 24 agreements in key sectors
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China's obsession with exports and electronics assembly can also be attributed to having learned from the Singaporean textbook.
Sanand has catapulted into the big league of automobile industry hubs.
Has Make in India's mascot, the metal lion, begun to rust?
The world's only 'zero-fuel' aircraft 'Solar Impulse-2' on Wednesday landed in Varanasi for an overnight stopover after its pilot held the Ahmedababd 'administration' responsible for the delay in departure from the city for want of customs and immigration clearance.
Solar Impulse-2 takes off for Varanasi from Ahmedabad.
From Varanasi. it will fly to Mandalay in Myanmar.
The Solar Impulse 2, claimed to be the world's only solar-powered aircraft, took off from Oman on tuesday to head towards Ahmedabad.
World's only solar-powered aircraft will make a stop over in Ahmedabad.
New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad airports are among world's best.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week, in 16 images.
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On November 19, the World celebrated World Toilet Day in attempt to spread awareness about the importance on toilets and urinals. According to figures, despite the human right to water and sanitation, of the world's seven billion people, 2.5 billion people do not have access to toilets. Looking at the funnier side of things, here's 12 of the kookiest urinals from across the world.
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A Chinese high court on Friday rejected the appeal of disgraced Communist Party leader Bo Xilai and upheld his life sentence for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power in the country's biggest political scandal.
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