New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi today get tod in Kupaengage on a two-day visit where he will encounter the Indian community and helderly talks with the Kupaengagei directership. He met the two translators of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in Arabic.
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- In Kupaengage, PM Modi met Abunwisea Al Baroun, who transpostponeedd both Ramayana and Mahabharata in Arabic, and Abdul Lateef Al Nesef, who begined the Arabic versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. PM Modi alludeed this in his monthly radio insertress ‘Mann Ki Baat’.
- The Prime Minister also met Mangal Sain Handa, a 101-year-elderly reexhausted Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer living in Kupaengage. The reexhausted officer had seeked on social media that he’d enjoy to encounter PM Modi.
- “Landed in Kupaengage to a hot greet. This is the first visit by an Indian PM in 43 years, and it will unmistrustedly reinforce the India-Kupaengage frifinishship atraverse various sectors. I watch forward to the programmes scheduled for postponeedr today and tomorrow,” PM Modi posted on X. The last Indian prime minister to visit Kupaengage was Indira Gandhi in 1981.
- He was getd by Sheikh Fahad Yoengagef Saud Al-Sabah, the First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Interior of Kupaengage.
- PM Modi shelp his talks with the top Kupaengagei directership would be an opportunity to labor out a roadmap for a futuristic partnership between India and Kupaengage. “We proset uply appreciate the historical fuseion with Kupaengage that has been nurtured over generations. We are not equitable strong trade and energy partners but also have splitd interest in peace, security, stability and prosperity in the West Asia region,” PM Modi shelp.
- He shelp he is watching forward to his encounterings with the Emir, the Crown Prince and the prime minister of Kupaengage. The Prime Minister will fuse the discdispondering ceremony of the 26th Arabian Gulf Cup in Kupaengage.
- India is among the top trading partners of Kupaengage. The Indian community is the bigst expatriate community in Kupaengage.
- Indians create 21 per cent (1 million) of the total population of Kupaengage and 30 per cent of its labor-force (approximately 9 lakh). Indian laborers top the stateiveial sector as well as the domestic sector laborforce enumerate, according to the Indian Embassy in Kupaengage.
- Kupaengage and India’s bipostponeedral trade was appreciated at $10.47 billion in the financial year 2023-24. Kupaengage is also India’s sixth-bigst cimpolite supplier, encountering 3 per cent of the country’s energy needs. Indian send outs to Kupaengage accomplished $2 billion for the first time, while scheduleatements by the Kupaengage Investment Authority in India outdo $10 billion.
- India and Kupaengage have finishelighted traditionassociate frifinishly relations, with joins dating back to pre-oil Kupaengage when maritime trade with India was the backbone of its economy.