Modi calls all-women IT centre 'glory of Saudi Arabia'

Prime Minister, in Saudi Arabia currently, says that the centre has the potential to give a strong reply to the world

Visiting the first-ever all-women IT centre here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called it the glory of Saudi Arabia.

"I am meeting those professionals who are now the glory of Saudi Arabia," said Modi at the IT centre set up by the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). "This atmosphere I am witnessing here today has the potential to give a strong reply to the world."

Read more from our special coverage on "NARENDRA MODI"

• PM Modi arrives in Saudi Arabia on two-day visit
• PM meets Trudeau in Washington; discusses bilateral ties
• Modi to arrive in Saudi Arabia today to boost strategic ties
• State actors-nuclear traffickers nexus poses greatest risk: PM
• Nuclear security must remain abiding national priority: PM Modi

Saudi Arabia is the third and last leg of Modi's three-nation tour which earlier took him to Brussels and Washington, D.C.

In Brussels he attended the 13th India-European Union (EU) Summit and held a bilateral meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and then in Washington he participated in the Nuclear Security Summit hosted by US President Barack Obama.

This is the first prime ministerial visit from India to the oil-rich Gulf kingdom since the visit of Manmohan Singh in 2010.