India and China must urgently address their border disputes to improve bilateral relations, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.

The two countries share an ill-defined, 3,440km (2,100-mile)-long border in the Himalayas, which has been a source of tension for decades.

Mr Modi made the comment during a rare interview with Newsweek magazine.

Opposition parties have often accused him of staying silent on reported Chinese incursions along the border.

In his almost 10 years in office, Mr Modi has given just a handful of interviews to the press and has not addressed a single news conference in India.