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 on Sunday asked people to be cautious about the coronavirus pandemic in the backdrop of the ongoing vaccination programme during his monthly radio programme, Mann ki Baat. “More than 62 crore vaccine doses have been administered in the country but still we have to be careful and vigilant," said PM Modi, while urging people to get vaccinated and take precautions ahead of the upcoming festivals.
This comes in the backdrop of Zydus’s covid-19 vaccine becoming the fifth vaccine to get Indian government approval after Covishield, a vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII) and developed by the Oxford University and AstraZeneca Plc; Bharat Biotech’s locally-developed Covaxin; Russia’s