Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are likely to hold a one-on-one meeting on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 Summit in China. The 11th G20 Summit 2016 would be held in Hangzhou on September 4 and 5. 

The two leaders are expected to deliberate on a broad range of issues, including trade and economic cooperation and other bilateral matters. However, details of the bilateral meeting between Modi and Xi have not been officially revealed.

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This will be the second meeting this year between the two leaders after Modi met Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (Summit) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in June. During the Tashkent meeting, Modi urged Xi to back India's Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) membership bid on its own merits.

China blocked India's India's entry into the 48-member elite grouping on the ground that New Delhi is not a signatory of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT).

Brazil, Ireland, Austria, Turkey and New Zealand also opposed New Delhi's NSG bid. India, on the other hand, remains optimistic about its NSG membership and has been trying to win Beijing's support.

Modi is likely to hold another one-to-one meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of G20 Summit. Modi is expected to raise a range of issues including India's NSG membership bid during the bilateral talks with the U.S. leader.

"The Modi-Obama meeting will be with officials of both sides. The two leaders will also meet Chinese President Xi Jinping separately," a senior Indian official told the Hindustan Times newspaper.

TagsIndia, china, Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping, G20, Barack Obama