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| | Prime Minister Narendra Modi projected India as offering the right blend of democracy and technology with policy predictability, market, talent and scale to the world’s top tech chief executives and invited them to continue engaging and investing in India. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don’t miss your daily dose of news. | | | THE BIG STORY Modi meets top US CEOs, urges them to be part of the India story Prime Minister Narendra Modi projected India as offering the right blend of democracy and technology with policy predictability, market, talent and scale to the world’s top tech chief executives and invited them to continue engaging and investing in India. Modi told the tech CEOs that he had met some of them in the past both in Washington DC in 2023 and in Delhi at different points, and he learnt a lot from all of them, who he called global innovators. He said that their enthusiasm and advice helped in policy formulation. “The advice that you offer, given the world that you work in, you belong to, and whose future you understand, is invaluable.” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Google’s Sundar Pichai, IBM’s Arvind Krishna, Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen and Accenture’s Julie Sweet were among the top chief executives at the meeting. Read more. | THE BIG QUESTION 'Watching, possessing child porn a crime': Will SC's verdict make a difference? The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that watching or possessing sexually explicit material involving minors is illegal under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, overturning a controversial Madras high court order, and urged the Union government to promote sex education in the country and to change the legal definition of “child pornography” to “child sexual exploitative and abuse material (CSEAM)” to reflect the true gravity of such crimes. Read more. | | | STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED |  RiP, Tito Jackson. His siblings, Jermaine, La Toyah, Randy and Janet are still alive. Name his brother, the most prominent member the family band The Jackson 5, who passed away in 2009. If you Remember The Time, then You Are Not Alone. | FROM THE EDIT PAGE The Left turn in Sri Lanka The election of Anura Kumar Dissanayake, the leader of Janata Vimukti Perumuna (People’s Liberation Front), an outfit with Marxist leanings, as the ninth President of Sri Lanka, marks a new chapter in the island nation’s politics. In a way, the ascent of the JVP, which led two violent insurrections in 1971 and during 1987-89, and its eclipsing of the three mainstream parties that have monopolised power in Colombo, completes a political cycle that started with the massive civic unrest in 2022, which forced the then president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to quit office and flee the country. The civic protests (Aragalaya) were unprecedented in their scale of mobilisation and remarkable for the way they articulated popular disaffection with the political establishment and the economic collapse that the Rajapaksas, once celebrated as heroes for their role in defeating the LTTE and ending the war in the Tamil-majority areas, presided over. Read more. | Infographic of the Day  (Click to expand) |  Michael Jackson | Photo of the Day 5 ways of looking at Lodhi Garden | HT This Day: September 24, 2001 US lifts sanctions on India, Pakistan  (Click to expand) The Bush administration in recent months repeatedly held that the sanctions have outlived their usefulness. Removal of sanctions against India has been on the cards for long. Read more. | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | | 
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