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We should encourage Hackathon culture in India: PM Narendra Modi tells at Google HQ

| | Sep 28, 2015, at 06:26 am
Mountain View, California, Sept 27 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited popular search engine headquarters and said Hackathon culture should be encouraged in India.

"We should encourage Hackathon culture in India so that the youth are inspired to find solutions to the country's problems," Modi said amid cheering crowds who shouted "Bharat Mata ki Jai" slogans.

Google CEO Sunder Pichai said India had adopted the Chrome browser fastest.

"When we were working on Google Chrome, we talked about which country would adopt it fastest. And it was India which did it," he said.

Modi visited Google headquarters after visiting social networking site Facebook's headquarters.

Modi met Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg  who hosted the  Q&A session with the Indian PM.

 

 

Image: PMO India Twitter page

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