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.
New Delhi: Amid a nationwide lockdown that has disrupted manufacturing, Indian companies will have to contend with another big challenge for weeks and months -- the delivery of products that ranges from food to medicines, industry officials say.
Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi has indicated that the lockdown will be eased gradually from mid-April, the domestic industry is staring at a huge shortage of truck drivers and loaders with many workers having returned to their hometowns after the lockdown was announced. “We currently think that about 40% of drivers are not available for trucks in the industry.
This may not change dramatically. If people have crossed borders, it is virtually impossible to get them back," Vineet Agarwal, senior