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: Indian aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has extended the suspension of domestic flights till 14 April to comply with the government's order of a 21-day lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, DGCA said on Friday. "All domestic operators engaged in scheduled, non-scheduled and private aircraft operations in India shall ensure strict compliance of the order," the watchdog said in a statement.
The government had earlier banned passenger flights on all domestic routes from 25 March to 31 March to arrest the spread of the deadly COVID-19 (coronavirus) in the world’s second-most populous nation.