September 28, 2015 9:19 AM

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21st Century will belong to India: PM to Indian community at San Jose

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the 21st Century will belong to India. Addressing Indian community at San Jose, United States, he said the world now perceives India at the centre stage of development and countries wants to partner with India. He said he firmly believes that India will progress because of favourable demographic divide.<br/><br/>Prime Minister said that so called brain drain is actually brain deposit and called upon the Indian Diaspora for contributing towards India's development. <br/><br/>The event also wrapped up the two-day visit of Mr Modi to Silicon Valley. Mr Modi is scheduled to have many important bilateral meetings with leaders including US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande and British counterpart David Cameroon in New York.<br/><br/>The Prime Minister said two main challenges facing the world are Terrorism and Global warming. Asserting that there is no good terrorism & bad terrorism, he questioned that if it has taken the UN 15 years to define terrorism, how long will it take to fight terrorism. <br/><br/>Mr Modi also announced a direct Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco from coming December.

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