India, UAE to set up $75bn infrastructure fund

Describing the task of cleaning up the rivers, including the Ganga, as a “scientific project”, the Prime Minister said it was a challenge to Indian scientists to come up with innovative solutions to achieve this goal.

Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama is expected to hold bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi during his visit to India.

Dr Gargash had similar views as he told the media that the UAE seeks to boost ties with India, which is a pivotal country with an advancing economy, while New Delhi looks at the UAE as a promising, successful model.

“The two nations reject extremism and any link between religion and terrorism“.

Calling for overlapping traditional knowledge with modern systems, he said India must become self-reliant in medical equipment manufacturing. The NSAs will meet every six months.

The sectors identified for UAE’s investment include railways, ports, roads, airports and industrial corridors and parks.

The visit shall also highlight the contributions of India and Indian-Americans to the technology and clean energy sectors, it said.

The joint statement said despite natural synergies and boundless potential for a natural strategic partnership, relations in the past have not kept pace with the exponential growth in relations between their people or the promise of the partnership.

A visit to Israel is next on Prime Minister Modi’s agenda in the West Asia.

His visit to San Francisco would also revive – after a gap of four decades with the exception of the former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao in 1994 – the post-independence tradition of Indian prime ministers visiting the US cities other than New York or Washington DC.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said different factions in Nagaland have been enabled to join the national mainstream after the signing of the peace accord between the central government and the NSCN-IM. An estimated 2.6 million Indians are living in the UAE. He asked the gathering to thank the Crown prince of Abu Dhabi as he agreed to provide land for a temple to be set up.