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.
National Institute for One Health in Nagpur will focus on increasing preparedness and laboratory capabilities for identification of novel and unknown zoonotic agents NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for National Institute for One Health and inaugurate the Centre for Research, Management and Control of Haemoglobinopathies, in Nagpur, on Sunday.
These institutes will help expedite the country’s efforts to boost health research. “With increased interaction between humans and animals, domestic and wild, and influenced by climate change, human health can no longer be seen in isolation.
More than half of all infections that people get, can be spread by animals. In this context, National Institute for One Health in Nagpur is an important infrastructural milestone for India.
The Institute will focus on increasing preparedness and laboratory capabilities for identification of novel and unknown zoonotic agents.