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FB's Zuckerberg meets PM Modi

| | Oct 11, 2014, at 01:45 am
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IBNS) Social networking giant Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Friday.

He was seen wearing a dark-coloured suit and tie  as he met the Indian Prime Minister.

"CEO of @facebook, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg calls on PM @narendramodi," the PMO India tweeted.

Zuckerberg came to Delhi on Thursday to attend the two-day Internet.org Summit, on Oct 9-10. The conference is aimed at making internet access affordable for people those who do not have it globally.

The Facebook co-founder is the third high profile honcho of a US-based tech firm, after Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Jeff Bezos of Amazon, to visit India in the recent past.

Earlier, Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg had visited India in July this year and met PM Modi and IT and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

She had said that there was enormous scope for expansion of Facebook in India, especially in the fields of education, health and other creative exposures.

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