India and China are in a race to populate their long border in the Himalayas. The race began after China built hundreds of villages along the disputed border with India and paid people to move there.

GANGTOK, India — Nearly four years ago, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Parliament she had big plans for India's border villages. "Border villages with sparse population, limited ...

OMKAR KHANDEKAR, BYLINE: The Gnathang village is in a scenic valley of grazing yaks and glacial lakes surrounded by the snowcapped Himalayas. This place in India's northeast is dotted with army camps ...