India Rejects China's Attempt to Rename Disputed Places 

India has reacted sharply to China's attempts to rename places in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh and said it outright rejects the move. <br />Foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi says the state has been and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India. <br />His comments came after reports said that China had renamed 11 places along a disputed Himalayan border region in the state. <br />China and India share a disputed 3,440km long de facto border - called the Line of Actual Control, or LAC - which is poorly demarcated. The presence of rivers, lakes and snowcaps means the line can shift. <br />China continues to stake claim on the whole of Arunachal Pradesh, calling it South Tibet.