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Google's Sundar Pichai to meet President Mukherjee, PM Modi during India visit
December 16, 2015

Google CEO Sundar Pichai will meet President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his first visit to India since he took the top job in August.

There will be no new launches this time, but informed sources said Mr Pichai will meet Google employees.

The India-born CEO, who will visit India on a 2-day visit starting from tomorrow, is scheduled to address the media tomorrow. He will meet Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad later.

On Thursday, Mr Pichai will meet PM Modi after which he will attend a chat session with students of Delhi University's Shri Ram College of Commerce. In the evening, he will attend a banquet hosted by President Mukherjee.

PM Modi, during his US visit in September, met Mr Pichai at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Santa Clara.

Mr Pichai was born in Chennai in 1972. He went to IIT-Kharagpur before going to Stanford University to pursue his PhD.

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