New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- Corporate leaders, including chief executives of Blackstone, FedEx, IBM, The Carlyle Group, and Warburg Pincus showed their keen interest in India as an attractive investment destination during Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal's visit to the United States, people familiar with the matter said. Goyal and the CEOs discussed opportunities in emerging technologies and India's burgeoning infrastructure and logistics sectors, they added, asking not to be named. The meetings were confirmed by social media posts of the minister and the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF). Goyal, who was in New York for discussions on a bilateral trade deal met Blackstone chairman, CEO and co-founder Stephen A Schwarzman, FedEx Corporation president and CEO Raj Subramaniam, IBM chairman, president and CEO Arvind Krishna, and Warburg Pincus chairman Chip Kaye. The minister is expected to return on Friday. He also had a high-level meeting in the US with Italian deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation Antonio Tajani. "We discussed ways to further boost bilateral trade and investment," Tajani said on X. Goyal was in the US from Monday, leading a delegation to accelerate talks for a bilateral trade agreement (BTA) as agreed by the two leaders , Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump on February 13....