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.
MUMBAI : Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday, in a meeting with the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanded an immediate approval of the Centre for some drug treatments; urged farmers to avail immediate loans from nationalized banks; and a single uniform policy for examinations of students across the country.In a video conference Thackeray said in the last two and a half months, Maharashtra has built a large number of health facilities.“On the one hand, while this fight against covid-19 is on, we have started turning the economic cycle around by signing agreements with large investors," said Thackeray, referring to the recent foreign direct investment (FDI) worth Rs.16,000 crore from 12 large investors.“Despite.