New Delhi, March 4 -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Sri Lanka in the first half of next month to conduct crucial talks to iron out a few irritants in bilateral relations. He is scheduled to meet President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to finalize and speed up crucial joint projects in energy and port sectors.

Modi will pay a two-day visit and will have extensive discussions with Dissanayake, who made an official visit to New Delhi immediately after the elections in which his National People's Power (NPP) scored a resounding victory unseating the incumbent president and capturing a two-third majority in Parliament.

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