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: India and Ireland on Wednesday decided to to leverage their strengths in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic that has now infected more than 2.6 million people and caused the deaths of more than 180,000 across the globe.
The decision was taken during a telephone conversation between prime minister Narendra Modi and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, a statement from the Indian side said.
The conversation with Varadkar is among the high level contacts Modi has had in recent weeks with world leaders ranging from US President Donald Trump to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. “Prime Minister Varadkar appreciated the role being played by Indian origin