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This is an archive article published on September 28, 2014

Gautam Adani among those who watched Narendra Modi at UN General Assembly

Gautam Adani told The Indian Express that RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani too was expected in New York.

Adani Group owner Gautam Adani (above) had allegedly been kidnapped by Fazlu-ur-Rehman  and Bhogilal Darji, with the help of other accomplices for ransom.

Adani appears

Spotted among those frequently going up from the foyer of the New York Palace Hotel to the floor where the Prime Minister and his delegation are staying, was businessman Gautam Adani, who also heard Narendra Modi’s address to the UNGA. Adani told The Indian Express that RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani too was expected in New York, and that both of them would attend the business conclave at which top American CEOs would be present.
 
Twitter followers

At their 45-minute meeting on Saturday, the PM and Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey are said to have discussed social media and its indispensability to good governance. Modi described his social media election campaign in detail to Christie, and the two are now following each other on Twitter.

English evening

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The Prime Minister spoke in English at Central Park, a decision guided by the fact that almost the entire crowd of 60,000 was made up of young students and teenagers. He had the aid of a teleprompter, but Modi digressed from the prepared text to make several impromptu observations.

Yes, Yoga!

South Asian leaders who met the PM on Saturday, President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Sushil Koirala, have endorsed the suggestion, made by Modi in his speech, to have an International Yoga Day. The MEA spokesperson later spoke about the initiative as a “goal” and “international objective” for which India would prepare over the next year.

Ritu Sarin is Executive Editor (News and Investigations) at The Indian Express group. Her areas of specialisation include internal security, money laundering and corruption. Sarin is one of India’s most renowned reporters and has a career in journalism of over four decades. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 1999 and since early 2023, a member of its Board of Directors. She has also been a founder member of the ICIJ Network Committee (INC). She has, to begin with, alone, and later led teams which have worked on ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks, Swiss Leaks, the Pulitzer Prize winning Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, Fincen Files, Pandora Papers, the Uber Files and Deforestation Inc. She has conducted investigative journalism workshops and addressed investigative journalism conferences with a specialisation on collaborative journalism in several countries. ... Read More

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