India, Aug. 17 -- Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two-day visit to India beginning on Monday, according to the external affairs ministry.

The meeting, scheduled for August 19, assumes significance as it comes less than a fortnight before Modi's planned trip to China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.

This will be Modi's first visit to China since the start of the military face-off on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in April-May 2020. Modi and President Xi Jinping are expected to hold a bilateral meeting on the margins of the SCO Summit, their second since the end of the standoff on the LAC last October.

Soon after his arrival in New Delhi on Monday afternoon...