Narendra DamodarDas Modi--PM of India

Name : Narendra Modi
Age : 63 Years
DOB : Sept 17, 1950
Place of Birth : Vadnagar, Mehsana, Gujarat
Religion : Hindu
Education : Did his schooling from Vadnagar. According to his teachers, he was an average student but had great interest in debates.
Spouse Name : Smt. Jashodaben
Mother's Name : Smt. Heeraben
Father's Name : Damodardas Mulchand Modi
Siblings : Soma Modi, Pankaj Modi, Prahlad Modi, Vasantiben Hasmukhlal Modi

Prime Minister of India Since 26th May, 2014

Portfolio:

• Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
• Dept of Atomic Energy
• Dept of Space
• All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

About :

Narendra Modi is the incumbent Prime Minister of India. Currently, the Member of Parliament (MP) from Varanasi., he is the most prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Considered a master strategist for his party, he has been the Chief Minister of Gujarat for four consecutive terms.

Narendra Damodardas Modi hails from a family of grocers in a town called Vadnagar in the northern Mehsana district of the state of Gujarat. He was born on 17 September 1950 to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and Heeraben Modi. Narendra Modi is the third eldest of his six siblings.

Modi completed his studies against all odds. His saga of struggle began when as a teenager, he, along with his brother, used to run a tea stall near a railway station in Ahmedabad. He did his schooling from Vadnagar and obtained a master's degree in Political Science from the Gujarat University. One of his school teachers described him as an average student but a brilliant debater. During his college days, he acted as a pracharak (promoter) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

At a later stage, during the 1990s when Modi served in New Delhi as the official spokesperson of the BJP, he completed a three-month long course in the US on public relations and image management.

Modi is the first Prime Minister of India who was born in 'Independent India’, that is, post-August 15, 1947. He is also the first Indian prime minister whose mother was alive when he took office. He holds the record of winning a Lok Sabha seat by the highest margin (about 5.70 lakhs; Vadodara).

Narendra Modi always had the utmost zeal and enthusiasm to serve and help the people in need. As a young boy during the Indo-Pak war in 1965, Narendra Modi voluntarily offered his services to the soldiers at the railway stations. He also served the affected people during the 1967 Gujarat floods. Modi started working in the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation’s staff canteen. Eventually from there he became a full-time proponent and campaigner, commonly called a pracharak of the RSS. Modi later underwent training in the RSS camp in Nagpur. It is a prerequisite for any RSS member to take up the training course for holding any official position in the Sangh Parivar. Narendra Modi was given charge of the student wing, which is better known as Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).


Awards :

• On the centenary celebration of Shri Poona Gujarati Bandhu Samaj, Narendra Modi was conferred with the Gujarat Ratna award at the Ganesh Kala Krida Manch.
• The computer society of India bestowed him the e-Ratna award
• In 2009, the FDi magazine honoured him as the Asian Winner of the FDi Personality of the Year Award.

Recognition :

• In 2006, India Today conducted a nationwide survey that declared him as the Best Chief Minister in India.
• In March 2012, the Time magazine featured him on the cover page of its Asian edition. He is one of the very few politicians of India to be featured on the cover of Time.
• In 2014, Modi was featured in 'Time 100' list of most influential people in the world.
• Modi became the most followed 'Asian leader' on Twitter in 2014.
• “Forbes” rated Modi as the '15th Most Powerful Person' in the world in 2014.

Official tours of Narendra Modi and their benefits for India

1.   Modi's Japan Visit

Narendra Modi paid an official 5-day long visit to Japan in early September 2014, where the two countries agreed on various matters of mutual cooperation.

• Japan agreed to shell out US$ 35 billion for development projects in India over a period of next five years.
• The two countries agreed upon a number of defence exchanges, cooperation in clean energy, to name a few.
• Japan lifted ban, which was imposed after 1998 Nuclear Tests, from six Indian entities like Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.
• India and Japan gave a nod to defence cooperation and accelerate the negotiations pertaining to a civil nuclear deal.
• Japan agreed to lend financial and technological aid to facilitate ambitious projects like that of running 'Bullet Trains' in India.

2.   Modi’s US visit

The Indian Prime Minister was on a five-day visit to the United States during September 26-30. With this visit, the US-India relationship entered a new phase.

• Modi met President of the United States of America Barack Obama and both leaders extolled their broad strategic and global partnership.
• They endorsed the first "Vision Statement for the Strategic Partnership” as a guide to strengthen and deepen cooperation in every sector for the benefit of global stability and people’s livelihoods.
• The focus was on bilateral cooperation in Energy, Climate Change, Defence Industry, Military Capabilities, Counter Terrorism, High Technology, Space and Health.
• Adopted the new mantra "Chalein Saath Saath: Forward Together We Go” to guide the relationship.
• Modi’s speech at Madison Square Garden drew the largest crowd ever by an Indian leader on American soil. It was the third time after Swami Vivekanand (1893) and Mrs Indira Gandhi (1982) that an Indian leader got such rousing reception in the US.

3.   Modi's Fiji Visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a day-long visit to Fiji on November 19. It was the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the country in 33 years.

Modi held bilateral talks with his counterpart Frank Bainimarama.

India and Fiji signed three agreements.

Modi announced visa on arrival for Fiji people.

He addressed Fijian parliament and called Fiji a leader in Pacific islands.

Modi said Fiji could serve as a hub for stronger Indian engagement with Pacific Islands.

Modi also met leaders of 12 Pacific Island nations.

The last Indian Prime Minister to visit the Pacific island nation was Indira Gandhi in 1981.



4.    Modi's Australia Visit

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a three-day visit to Australia between November 16 and 18, the first by an Indian Prime Minister in 28 years. Modi paid an official visit to Australia, following the G-20 Summit, as the guest of his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott.
• He held talks with Abbott and addressed a joint sitting of both houses of Australian Parliament.
• He met political leaders, academics, businesspeople, sporting figures and addressed members of the Australian Indian community.
• Both leaders agreed to unlock the vast potential of the economic relationship, especially in priority areas such as resources, education, skills, agriculture, infrastructure, investments, financial services and health.
• They agreed to expedite progress towards early conclusion of arrangements to implement the Civil Nuclear Agreement signed in September.

5.    PM Narendra Modi's Bhutan visit

On June 15, 2014, PM Narendra Modi left for his two-day visit to Bhutan. It was his first foreign visit after taking charge. During his visit Modi:

• Laid the foundation stone of the hydro-electric project.
• Announced scholarships of Rs 2 crore to Bhutanese students in India.
• Regarded relationship with Bhutan as a 'special' one.
• Announced setting up of a digital library to provide easy access to books.
• Discussed measures to improve economic ties.
• Held talks related to free trade between the two countries.

6.   PM Narendra Modi's participation in the 6th BRICS summit

Narendra Modi attended BRICS summit on July 14 and 15. The summit was held in Fortaleza, Brazil. The agenda of the meet was regional crisis and security threats. A delegation including the then Minister of State for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman, National Security Adviser A K Doval, Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram accompanied Modi.

Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and Jacob Zuma of South Africa.

• The BRICS nations signed an agreement to create the “New Development Bank” worth US$ 100 billion.
• The New Development Bank (NDB) will represent all five members of the BRICS group. It was unanimously decided that the institution's operative headquarter would be in Shanghai (China), the first president of the body would be from India, the inaugural chairman of the board of governors would be from Russia and the first chairman of the board of directors would be from Brazil and the bank's first regional office would be in Johannesburg (South Africa). The presidency, with a term of five years, would rotate among the members of the BRICS.
• The member countries also signed documents of cooperation between BRICS export credit agencies and an agreement of cooperation on innovations.
• According to the official press release of the summit, the group said, "We remain disappointed and seriously concerned with the current non-implementation of the 2010 International Monetary Fund (IMF) reforms, which negatively impact on the IMF's legitimacy, credibility and effectiveness."

Books written by Narendra Modi :
1.    Sakshibhav



2.    Samajik Samarasata


3.    Convenient Action: Gujarat's Response to Challenges of Climate Change


4.   Jyotipunj



5.   Abode of Love



6.   Premtirth


7.   Kelve Te Kelavani


Source : http://www.elections.in/political-leaders/narendra-modi.html

Dr. Abdul Kalam's Letter to Every Indian

Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?
We are such a Great NATION. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit..
There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE?
Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?
We want foreign T.Vs,  We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported.
Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance?

I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is..
She replied: I want to live in a developed India.

For her, you and I will have to build this developed India.
You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation;  it is a highly developed nation...

YOU say that our government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are too old. YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.  YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.
YOU say, say and say..
What do YOU do about it?

Take a person on his way to Singapore.
Give him a name - 'YOURS'. Give him a face - 'YOURS'. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best.
In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores.
YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are.. You pay $5 to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM.
YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity?
In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU?
YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai ..
YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah.
YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.
YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.'
YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand ..
Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo?
Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ???
We are still talking of the same YOU.
YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own.
YOU who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground.

If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country,
Why cannot you be the same here in India ?

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan ..
Will the Indian citizen do that here?

We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.
We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative.

We expect   the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin.

We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.

We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity. This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public.

When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others what do we do?
We make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home.
OUR EXCUSE?
'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.'

So who's going to change the system?
What does a system consist of?
Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government.
But definitely not ME & YOU.

When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. CLEAN to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England. When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government.
Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country.
Nobody thinks of feeding the system.
Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too?..

I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians?..'
ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'

Lets do what India needs from us.
Thank you ?

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Swine Flu

Swine influenza, also called pig influenza, swine flu, hog flu and pig flu, is an infection caused by any one of several types of swine influenza viruses.
The viruses are 80–120 nanometres in diameter.
Swine influenza virus is common throughout pig populations worldwide. Transmission of the virus from pigs to humans is not common and does not always lead to human flu, often resulting only in the production of antibodies in the blood. People with regular exposure to pigs are at increased risk of swine flu infection.
Swine flu was reported in India in early 2015. The disease affected more than 20,000 people and claimed over a 1,000 lives.

Most symptoms are the same as seasonal flu. They can include:

• cough.
• fever.
• sore throat.
• stuffy or runny nose.
• body aches.
• headache.
• chills.
• fatigue.
• nausea
• vomiting
• diarrhea.

Influenza viruses can be directly transmitted from pigs to people and from people to pigs. Human infection with flu viruses from pigs are most likely to occur when people are in close proximity to infected pigs, such as in pig barns and livestock exhibits housing pigs at fairs. Human-to-human transmission of swine flu can also occur. This is thought to occur in the same way as seasonal flu occurs in people, which is mainly person-to-person transmission through coughing or sneezing of people infected with the influenza virus. People may become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose.
The CDC recommends routine precautions to prevent the spread of infectious diseases: wash your hands often, cover your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze, avoid close contact with sick people. If you are sick, stay at home and limit contact with others.