Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is hosting China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, part of Kremlin efforts to challenge Western global clout.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met in Kazan, reaching significant agreements to improve China-India relations. They endorsed the disengagement along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh,

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia, in their first bilateral meeting in five years.