Modi with Indian diaspora in Dubai |
India`s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Abu Dhabi from Jordan on the second leg of his three-nation tour on Feb 10 and was received by Mohammed Bin Zayed and other members of the Royal family at the airport. PM Modi held wide-ranging talks with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as India and the UAE signed five agreements, including a historic pact awarding a consortium of Indian oil companies a 10% stake in offshore oil concession. On Feb 11, he travelled to Dubai from Abu Dhabi, to witness the foundation stone-laying ceremony for the first Hindu temple in the capital of the UAE, home to over three million people of Indian origin. Temple Committee members had presented the temple literature to Modi and Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan last evening in Abu Dhabi. The temple will come up on 55,000 square metres of land. The temple will be hand-carved by Indian temple artisans and assembled in the UAE. It will be completed by 2020, and open to people of all religious backgrounds. It will be the first traditional Hindu stone temple in the Middle East.
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