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.
Opinion | The opportunity in unintended consequences: Post Covid-19 reset for India
If 90% of India’s population is based outside metropolitan cities, can the government use this crisis of reverse migration as a trigger to redraw a regionally-progressive, more balanced plan for development and industrialization?
Never let a good crisis go to waste—a phrase often used to look for optimism and opportunities in difficult times. The current scenario in India could be one such inflection point.
Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a lockdown across India to apply brakes on the spread of the highly pathogenic and contagious novel coronavirus, which causes Covid-19 disease.
With the impracticality of social distancing, a lockdown seeks to flatten the curve in a country which has a frail healthcare delivery system and
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