New Delhi, July 9 -- As the world goes through a recession amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India will play a leading role in the global economic revival.

Delivering his inaugural speech at the India Global Week 2020, a virtual conference being organized in the UK, he also said that India has already started seeing green shoots of recovery.

Noting that Indian technology industry and tech professionals along with contributions in other sectors by Indians, including healthcare, banking and scientific research have always played a major role globally, he said: "There is faith that the story of global revival will have India playing a leading role."

Modi also said the ability of Indians to reform...