EDIT CONTAINS 4:3 MATERIAL Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sought to strengthen mutual trust and deepen cooperation with India on Monday (May 20) after a recent military standoff in the Himalayas threatened to derail relations between the two Asian giants, home to more than one third of the global population. Li, who arrived in India on his maiden foreign trip after taking over as the Chinese premier, said he would strive to increase trust and build bridges for the future between the two neighbours whose relations have been fraught with mutual suspicion following a brief border war in 1962. Bilateral trade between the two countries hit $73 billion in 2011, making China India's largest trade partner, but slipped to $66 billion last year. Still, the two countries remain committed to achieving a $100 billion bilateral trade by 2015.

India and China will hold formal talks on the issues of border, trade and peace respectively on Monday. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang currently on a visit to India met Manmohan Singh in New Delhi earlier on Sunday.

Ahead of the formal talks with his Indian counterpart, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang was accorded a ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday.

Three employees of a Bengali daily newspaper including a manager were killed by two unidentified assailants at their office in Agartala. The incident happened when two assailants stormed into the office of Dainik Ganadoot, and stabbed to death the 32 year old proof reader, Sujit Bhattacharjee, and seriously injured manager Ranjit Chowdhury, and driver Balaram Ghosh, both of whom died on way to hospital.