PM Modi in US: All you need to know about his meetings today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet US Vice-President Kamala Harris for a bilateral session later in the day.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who reached Washington DC late on Wednesday night, has a series of high-level meetings lined up on Thursday evening (India time) to kickstart his seventh visit to the United States.

This handout photograph released by India's Press Information Bureau shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi alighting from an aircraft upon his arrival in Washington on Wednesday.  (AP)

Modi will start his day by interacting with American CEOs, where he is expected to highlight the economic opportunities that India offers.

He is scheduled to meet Adobe's Shantanu Narayen and Vivek Lall of General Atomics – both them Indian-American — apart from Cristiano E Amon (president and CEO of Qualcomm), Mark Widmar (CEO of First Solar), and Stephen A Schwarzman (chairperson and co-founder of Blackstone).

Modi's meetings with the CEOs will be followed by a bilateral session with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The meeting assumes significance ahead of the meeting of the heads of the states of the Quad nations — India, US, Australia and Japan — on Friday.

Although Indo-Pacific and Climate Change and Justice will be the priority for the Quad summit on September 24, Afghanistan and terrorism will be the flavour of the UNGA high-level segment till September 27.

Modi is also scheduled to meet US Vice-President Kamala Harris at the Eisenhower executive office building later in the day.

Modi will meet US President Joe Biden for his first in-person meeting at the White House on Friday. India's foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Tuesday that the evolving situation in Afghanistan, as well as counter-terrorism measures, is also on the agenda of the meeting between Modi and Biden.

The Indian Prime Minister will address the 76th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 25.

As soon as Modi touched down in the US, he was received by India's Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, along with a battery of defence attache, including Brigadier Anoop Singhal, Air Commodore Anjan Bhadra and naval attache Commodore Nirbhaya Bapna. Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources TH Brian McKeon was also present on behalf of the US government.

Modi was greeted by the Indian diaspora on his arrival at the Andrews airbase. The Prime Minister "Grateful to the Indian community in Washington DC for the warm welcome. Our diaspora is our strength. It is commendable how the Indian diaspora has distinguished itself across the world," PM Modi called the Indian diaspora as the country's "strength".

"Grateful to the Indian community in Washington DC for the warm welcome. Our diaspora is our strength. It is commendable how the Indian diaspora has distinguished itself across the world," Modi tweeted as he interacted with the Indian-American community at the airport.