Mr. Modi arrived in New York City on Wednesday evening.
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Facebook and Google have added staff in India over the past five years – although neither breaks out staff numbers by region – but Modi will likely press for even more, seeking deals for them to build research and development centres in India and for the companies to employ more local Indians.
As Modi has gone to Ireland for a government-level interaction, he also paid visit to Indian community people in Ireland at a special event organized at Hotel Double Tree Hilton in Dublin. Ahead of Modi’s visit, Google’s new CEO Sundar Pichai welcomed him and said Googlers are excited and honoured to host Modi, who will be there over the weekend.
Later, he will attend the India-U.S. start-up connect 2015, which is being coordinated by NASCOM.
The spokesperson recalled that during his first trip to India back in 2010, Obama had announced that the usa “would be supportive of including India in the United Nations Security Council in the context of reforming essentially the governance structure of the United Nations”. Emerging economies have a vital role to play and if India were to cut greenhouse gas emissions as per the need of the hour, a lot could be changed.
Modi is eager to bring jobs to India for the 1 million Indians entering the job market each year, foreign policy experts said.
Mr Modi will also also participate in a summit hosted by President Obama on peacekeeping.
Ms Gupta (49) pointed out that Ireland and India have interesting cultural links, as Sanskrit and Irish are both among the oldest languages in the world.
“We have an NRI PM for the first time who has visited dozens of countries so soon, but other than personal publicity what have the Indian people and farmers benefitted from his visits”, he told ANI here. “I leave convinced that India and Ireland must invest more to realise the vast potential of this relationship”.
“Our discussion underlined the importance of closer co-operation between countries like India and Ireland, which share democratic values and are consistent advocates of global peace and stability”, he said. “We are confident the PM is the right person to trust to increase foreign investments for India”, said Lalubhai Parekh, president of the Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP). Today, 26,000 Indians constitute a vibrant part of the Irish community and the victims of the 1985 bombing of the Air India Kanishka aircraft find a resting place here, he said.
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AJA plans protests outside the SAP Center in San Jose on September 27, where Modi is scheduled to address to some 18,500 Indian-Americans.
