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.
Modi speaks to Trump over phone, discusses Covid-19 situation among other issues
NEW DELHI: India and the US discussed on Tuesday the ongoing border tensions between India and China during a telephone call between US president Donald Trump and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, made by the former to invite Modi to the G7 summit in the US later this year.
This comes just days after the US president described the G7 group of industrialized countries as "very outdated" and postponed a scheduled summit to September announcing plans to include India, Russia, South Korea and Australia in the meeting.
According to a statement from the Indian foreign ministry, “President Trump spoke about the US Presidency of the Group of Seven, and conveyed his desire to expand the ambit of the grouping beyond the existing membership, to
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