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Current Affairs:Chinese President Xi Jinping left for India on Friday morning for the second casual gathering with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the southern province of Tamil Nadu.
He will land at Tamil Nadu capital Chennai late evening.
Later at night, Xi will meet Modi and hold chats on a large group of issues in a casual environment at the memorable vacationer town of Mamallapuram.
After a medium-term meeting, the two heads are planned to meet again on Saturday to proceed with the dialogs.
The Chinese President is because of leave for Nepal on Saturday evening.
This is the second casual summit among Xi and Modi. Their first casual gathering at the Chinese city of Wuhan a year ago brought about standardization of the relations between the two nations after the 2017 Doklam standoff.
State-run Xinhua news organization revealed that Xi left for Chennai at the beginning of today.
His escort incorporates Ding Xuexiang, individual from the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC), individual from the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and chief of the General Office of the CPC, Yang Jiechi, individual from the Political Bureau of the CPC and executive of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and He Lifeng, bad habit administrator of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and leader of the National Development and Reform Commission.