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 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch high-throughput covid-19 testing facilities on Monday via video conferencing to ramp up testing in view of the rapid rise in new infections.
On Sunday, India breached the 1.4 million covid-19 cases mark.The facilities will help increase testing capacity and allow early detection and treatment, and also assist in controlling the spread of covid, the PMO said in a statement.The three high-throughput testing facilities, with the capacity to test more than 10,000 samples, each, per day, have been established strategically—at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida; ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health,.