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India is Indonesia's fourth-largest trading partner. Bilateral trade between the countries is expected to zoom from USD20 to USD45 billion by 2015, Indonesian ambassador Andi M Ghalib has said. "India is at number four now, after China, the US and Japan. Very soon, it will overtake Japan and even the US. In the next five years, it will be a major trading partner," Ghalib told IANS in Shimla.

The crop of Alphonso mangoes from the Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra, among the country’s largest producers of the fruit, might be in grave danger. Alphonso production in these regions has been dropping steadily by 15 percent every year since 2008, and the trend might continue this year as well, reports Economic Times.