Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Tech innovations such as the UPI payment apps enable super-fast transactions The Union government on Thursday announced a staggering ₹1.7 trillion package to mitigate the brunt of the 21-day lockdown on 800 million people.
It has in the process hit the right notes with the optics, no doubt, and at the same time prioritized its economic strategy to be one about protecting the most vulnerable.
By sheer scale, it dwarfs the fiscal stimulus undertaken in the last big crisis—the 2008 global financial meltdown. More impressive is the rare alacrity with which the Union government, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has moved to deliver the relief—without worrying about the attendant fiscal costs—to those at the bottom of the social pyramid,