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Burj Khalifa lights up with Indian Tricolour to honour visiting PM Narendra Modi

Burj Khalifa lights up with Indian Tricolour to honour visiting PM Narendra Modi

| @indiablooms | 11 Feb 2018, 06:32 pm

Dubai, Feb 11 (IBNS): As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Dubai,   iconic skyscraper Burj Khalifa was lit up in the colours of the Indian tricolour to honour the leader.

" #BurjKhalifa lights up in the colours of the Indian national flag, in honour of the Indian Prime Minister @narendramodi and his delegation visiting the UAE," the official Twitter page of the building said.

Modi is currently visiting UAE.

Modi on Sunday addressed at the  World Government Summit in Dubai and said governments should ensure that technology is used for development and not destruction.

"In Dubai, PM Modi says Governments must ensure technology is used for development, not destruction," Modi said.

He said: "Technology is changing at speed of thought, necessity not the mother of invention anymore."

Modi said technology has empowered commonman.

"Technology has empowered the common man, which has given a fillip to minimum government," he said.

Speaking on 6R's, he said: " The 6 R's - reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, redesign, re-manufacture - and technology will take us to a point where we can rejoice."

Image: Burj Khalifa Twitter page

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