Live: PM Narendra Modi hails NRIs, want them to be partners in India's progress

Here are the live news updates for January 9, 2018.

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the first Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) Parliamentary Conference in the 'Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra' at Chanakyapuri here. he hailed the contribution of NRIs and PIOs in transforming India's image at the global level. As many as 124 Members of Parliament and 17 mayors from 23 countries are participating in this conference.

Here are the live updates:-

09 January 2018

11:45 IST

PM Modi concludes speech, expresses hope that NRIs, PIOs will continue to make India proud with their achievements.

11:35 IST

We do not intend to exploit anyone's resources, nor we are eyeing anyone's territory, our focus has always been on capacity building and development: PM Modi

We are committed to ending corruption to make India a corruption-free society: PM