Pichai meets Modi, announces Google will invest $10 billion in India’s digitisation fund

Indian-origin CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, after which the executive announced that his organisation would be investing $10 billion in India’s digitisation fund.

Prime Minister Modi was on a three-day state visit to the United States, where he has been meeting the chief executives of major global players including Micron and Applied Materials, both of whom have committed to investing in India.