New Delhi, April 8 -- The Crown Prince of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, will visit India on April 8-9, during which he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and participate in a business roundtable seeking to bolster India-UAE ties.

"His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, deputy prime minister and minister of defence, the UAE, will visit India on April 8-9," the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Monday said in a statement announcing the visit.

"This would be the first official visit of His Highness to India as the Crown Prince of Dubai," it said. Sheikh Hamdan's visit follows an invitation by ...