Modi hails progress in US-India ties in address to US Congress

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the momentous progress in America-India (AI) ties surpassed the remarkable advances in artificial intelligence (AI) in the seven years since his last address to the US Congress.

- Prashant Jha

WASHINGTON: Modi termed his visit a moment of “great positive transformation" and the deepening of the India-US partnership as the “calling of this century".

“We are united by a common vision. And, by a common destiny. When our partnership progresses, economic resilience increases, innovation grows, science flourishes, knowledge advances, humanity benefits, our seas and skies are safer, democracy will shine brighter, and the world will be a better place…. Together, we shall demonstrate that democracies matter and democracies deliver," Modi told a joint meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill on Thursday.