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.
Mint Lite | Lifeline for small businesses, travel trouble, other news of the day
Mint Lite is a quick update to bring you up to speed on all the news you need to know—and some things that are just fun to know—in five minutes before you start your day Waiting for speeches seems to have been the theme of the last few days—whether it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s detailing of the ₹20 lakh crore economic package, or the US Fed chief’s speech on the challenges facing that country’s economy.
For the markets, hidden in these speeches—what leaders say and what they leave out—are cues to the direction the economy could take in future and where the government’s priorities lie.
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