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The India-Sri Lanka CEOs Forum will hold its first meeting on August 4 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The forum, which has been set up to develop a road map for increased cooperation and mutually beneficial economic partnership between the two countries, will deliberate ways and means to enhance trade and investments between the two countries.

India will host its maiden dialogue with a troika of Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries on August 7, an important step that will elevate ties with the resource-rich region amid China's growing foray.

Asserting that India and China are not rivals, Chinese Consul General Niu Qingbao said that both countries are rather partners in development. "China and India have been in the news for many years, first because both are fastest-growing major economies, which lead some to predict that we will dominate the world. We have border disputes that had resulted in what strategists term as 'unavoidable confrontation' or 'rivalry' between us," Niu said while addressing a seminar.

The India Union Tourism Minister, Subodh Kant Sahai, and the Minister for Tourism of Mauritius, Yeung Sik Yuen, discussed ways to boost tourism in both countries at their meeting in New Delhi, reports Business Standard.