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* The event "Howdy, Modi! Shared Dreams, Bright Futures" will be held at the sprawling NRG Stadium and is expected to be attended by 50,000 Indian-Americans.

* This would be the first time that an American president will address thousands of Indian-Americans at one place in the US.

* White House officials told PTI that a request was made by Prime Minister Modi to President Trump when the two met in France last month on the sidelines of the G-7 summit.

* Trump "immediately accepted" the invitation to join him in Houston.

* The event is being organised by non-profit Texas India Forum, a recently-formed representative body of hundreds of Indian American organisations in Texas and other parts of the US.

* This would be the third meeting between the two leaders this year. The previous two were on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in June in Japan and in France in July on the sidelines of the G7 Summit.

* This will also be Modi's third major address to the Indian-American community after he became the prime minister in 2014 and the first after his re-election in May.

* The previous two were at the Madison Square Garden in New York in 2014 and the Silicon Valley in 2016. Both the events were attended by more than 20,000 people.

