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This is first visit by the Indian prime minister in over a decade.

Earlier in the day, while talking to investors, Modi said India had an immediate investment opportunity of $1 trillion and the government will take urgent steps to address concerns of businessmen from this country and erase “deficit of 34 years“.

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.

Congress launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in retaliation to his veiled attack against former UPA government. Indira Gandhi was the last prime minister to visit in 1981.

“The Prime Minister should have maintained dignity of the high office he holds”.

Abu Dhabi: Narender Modi is the second Prime Minister of India after Indira Gandhi to visit UAE.

Modi’s two-day visit to Abu Dhabi is the first by an Indian prime minister since Indira Gandhi’s trip in 1981.

Indians are used to seeing their Prime Minister’s face splashed across the front pages of newspapers.

This first presidential visit to his ancestral home at the fag-end of his second term is the ultimate triumph of the “politics of symbolism” that has characterised Obama’s engagement with Africa.

“Some of my critics back home might be suggesting I’m here to look for my birth certificate, ” he said.

To a mixture of applause and laughter, Obama described being picked up at the airport on his first visit to Kenya in the 1980s by his sister in an old VW Beetle that often broke down.

Although Sauti Sol seemed to have full confidence in Obama’s abilities, it seems he might have had a few doubters as the group captioned the video, “And for those who doubted President @barackobama’s step – the #LipalaDance #SuraYako is his new favorite...

At a state dinner Saturday night, he busted some moves with Kenyan band Sauti Sol, performing the lipala, a popular dance among the nation’s youths.

“Ethiopia faces serious threats and its contribution to the African Union mission in Somalia has reduced areas under al-Shabaab control but as the prime minister noted, yesterday’s bombing in Mogadishu reminds us that terrorist groups like al-Shabaab offer nothing but...

Obama, who’s been deploying a freer, less restrained approach in the self proclaimed “fourth quarter” of his presidency, had largely focused his political attention this year on Congress and stayed away from the 2016 fray – until now.