PM Narendra Modi arrives in Ottawa for three-day Canadian visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Ottawa on Tuesday for a three-day Canadian visit. PM Modi's visit to Canada is the first standalone visit by an Indian prime minister since former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi stopped by in 1973 when Pierre Trudeau was Canada's prime minister. During his visit, PM Modi is scheduled to hold talks with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on a wide range of issues, including nuclear energy, trade and investment. PM Modi will also be addressing the Indian diaspora in Toronto. PM Modi is also likely to visit a memorial set up for the 1985 Kanishka air crash victims in Toronto as also Laxmi Narayan Temple in Vancouver.