The Congress party on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to lost his mental balance whenever he set foot on foreign soil.
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He will also hold talks with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Earlier in the day, Modi was accompanied on an hour-long visit of Masdar City, by senior City officials, who briefed him on various aspects of the project. In a veiled to attack on Pakistan, the Prime Minister then said, “samajhne wale samajh jayenge (the message will be clear to those it’s intended for)”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reworked the magic of New York’s Madison Square Garden once again as he addressed a large gathering at Dubai’s cricket stadium. More than 18,000 people are expected to attend the event.
Addressing the media in Dubai, Foreign Secretary of India S Jaishankar said, “The leaders agreed to enhance cooperation in counter-terrorism operations, intelligence sharing and capacity building”.
Representing more than 30% of Emirati population, India has about 2.6 million Indian expatriate. Expressing gratitude for the remittances from NRIs, he said the UAE had agreed to invest $4.5 lakh crore in India. Trade between the two reached $60bn a year ago.
PM Modi is in a two-day visit to UAE.
“Lack of proper regulation by the authorities in both India and the UAE of the booming migrant-worker recruitment industry, including visa brokers, has allowed rogue recruiting agents to cause serious human rights abuses with impunity”, Salil Shetty, secretary-general of Amnesty worldwide, told Reuters. He spent about 10 minutes shaking hands and talking with some of them in a gymnasium.
The Crown Prince and Prime Minister Modi resolved to take care of common summits, excessive degree ministerial dialogue and conferences of bilateral mechanisms for a robust complete strategic partnership.
Modi’s $1tn target, which Swarup confirmed, probably refers to “the infrastructure requirement for India”, Dharmakirti Joshi, chief economist for Crisil Ltd, said by phone from Mumbai. “We need to erase the deficit that we had for 34 years“, said Mr Modi.
“Our effort has been to take India to new heights of progress and maintain a strong friendship with our neighbouring countries”. “UAE’s power and India’s potential can make it Asia’s century”, he said in the planned city of Abu Dhabi.
“The Prime Minister wanted to hear more about how UAE succeeded in creating such an infrastructure in tourism”.
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He said there has been a huge change in the way India is regarded by the world. “It is my priority to kickstart those things”.
