Narendra Modi To Be First Indian PM To Stay At U.S. President's Official Guest House

Modi will then proceed towards the United Nations to deliver the speech at the General Assembly, scheduled in the first half of the day. The Prime Minister will then have a series of bilateral meetings including one with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina.

In the evening, Modi is scheduled to visit the Central Park where he will attend Global Citizen festival.

According to sources here, the Prime Minister will be meeting Jewish groups on September 28, the day on which he will also address thousands of Indian-Americans at the famous Madison Square Garden.

U.S. President Barack Obama will host a dinner for Modi on his arrival in Washington on September 29 from New York. Significantly, the U.S. President's dinner meet is not a usual practice and is normally accorded to foreign visitors on state visits.

The dinner meeting would be the first opportunity for Modi and Obama to interact with each other and will set the stage for the summit meeting on September 30. Vice-President Joe Biden will host a working lunch for Modi on September 30 after which the Prime Minister will travel to Capitol Hill to meet House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner.

In Washington, DC, he will also meet businessmen at an event hosted by the U.S-India Business Council.

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