On the border dispute, officials on both sides say the protracted boundary talks made progress, while both sides made attempts to avert tensions along the 3,488-kilometre-long Line of Actual Control, which remains undefined.
"Issue should be closed within 1-2 months," Manohar Parrikar said.
"The basic idea is that India would like to continue to be the most beautiful woman wooed by all men, notably the two strongest in the house, US and China," the article titled 'Indo-US strategic distrust stalls LSA signing'.
This is the second time that China has defended the decision to put a technical hold on India's bid to ban Azhar, the mastermind of the January 2 Pathankot terrorist attack.
A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while a reading below 50 reflects contraction.
Chinese state media on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic reforms have achieved "little progress" and asserted that the Chinese economy was five times bigger than the Indian economy.
China will open up service sectors such as education, finance and culture for FDI to remain an attractive destination for overseas investment.
'China is in a good position to defuse financial risks.'
China on Monday dodged a direct response to reports of presence of the People's Liberation Army's troops at a forward post in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and said it "regretted" that the media keeps "popping up" stories of incursions into the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control.
Any move by India to join the US navy for jointly patrolling the disputed South China Sea will be against its national interest, would divide Asian countries and further escalate regional tensions, a state-run Chinese daily said on Friday.
China's FDI growth saw ups and downs in the first 11 months of 2015.
At the end of 2014, 70.17 million of China's rural residents lived below the country's poverty line.
The total India-China trade in 2015 amounted to $71.64 billion.
Indian officials said Doval's visit will be rescheduled as he is preoccupied with the handling of the Pathankot incident.
Users on popular Chinese microblog Sina Weibo chastised the translation as 'a blasphemy against a classic'.
Two persons were pulled out alive after being buried for over 60 hours in a landslide that struck an industrial estate in China's Shenzhen city.
Parts of north China will see the worst smog so far this year the National Meteorological Centre said on Saturday.
As Shinzo Abe begins his crucial visit to India on Friday looking to clinch a slew of deals including bullet trains and amphibious defence planes, the Chinese media on Friday said the Japanese premier is trying to rope in India as part of a strategy to contain arch rival China.
China is keen to get Indian bullet train deals as it would provide a major opening for it to win projects abroad.
Under the red alert, which is the highest in the four-tier emergency response system created in 2013, all schools have been ordered to be closed, and outdoor construction halted.
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