{"id":315063,"date":"2019-09-16T05:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315063"},"modified":"2019-09-16T05:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:08:02","slug":"president-trump-to-join-pm-modi-at-howdy-modi-event-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-trump-to-join-pm-modi-at-howdy-modi-event-in-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump to Join PM Modi at &#8216;Howdy Modi&#8217; event in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300359 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/modi-trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump.jpg 757w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-696x559.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/modi-trump-523x420.jpg 523w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/>US President Donald Trump will be joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Houston&#8217;s mega event called &#8220;Howdy, Modi!&#8221; on September 22, the White House said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This will be the first time a US president and Indian Prime Minister will be addressing a joint rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">White House issued a statement on Sunday to confirm that Trump will attend the \u2018Howdy Modi\u2019 event. This will be the third meeting between the two leaders within the span of a few weeks after the G20 and G7 summits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, over 50,000 Indian Americans from across the US have registered for the event to be held at the NRG Stadium in Houston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt will be a great opportunity to emphasize the\u00a0strong ties between the people of\u00a0the United States and India, to reaffirm the strategic partnership between the world\u2019s oldest and largest democracies, and to discuss ways to deepen their energy and trade relationship,\u201d the White House said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The event, \u201cHowdy, Modi! Shared Dreams, Bright Futures,\u201d is expected to draw tens of thousands of people, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump will leave Houston the same day for another event with the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison in Wapakoneta, Ohio, the White House said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump will be joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Houston&#8217;s mega event called &#8220;Howdy, Modi!&#8221; on September 22, the White House said on Sunday. This will be the first time a US president and Indian Prime Minister will be addressing a joint rally. White House issued a statement on Sunday to confirm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[64,11803,11802,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315065,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315063\/revisions\/315065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}