India and China will hold the ninth round of military talks on Sunday to defuse the border standoff in eastern Ladakh, sources in the defence ministry said.

The corps commander-level talks will be held at Moldo on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control.

Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off at multiple points — the Pangong Lake, Hot Springs and the Depsang Plains — since May last year.

Eight rounds of military talks so far have failed to find a breakthrough.