Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – In his first speech in the main city of Indian-administered Kashmir since scrapping its semi-autonomous status in 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra…
Kolkata, India – At the three-storey building of Sarada Shishu Vidya Mandir, a school for grades five to 10 in Uluberia town in the eastern…
New Delhi, India — A little more than two months ago, the Congress party, India’s biggest opposition force, seemed to be on a roll. Rahul…
New Delhi, India — The Indian Supreme Court verdict on Thursday scrapping an opaque, election funding system has set off powerful tremors in the country’s…
A mysterious source of electoral funding, which has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is under…
New Delhi, India – Indian investigators have raided multiple premises linked with a prominent rights activist in the national capital – a move that Prime…
New Delhi, India — Over the weekend, a popular joke on Indian social media featured Nitish Kumar, the 72-year-old nine-time chief minister of the east…
Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision of a secular India, and a multinational, multiethnic, multireligious, pluralistic democracy hit a new low this week. The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya…
January 22 is past us. For India, it was a big day. Its prime minister, Narendra Modi, said it was “not just a date on…
NewsFeedIndia’s prime minister has fulfilled a campaign promise by opening a Hindu temple built on the site of a centuries-old mosque destroyed by far-right mobs…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a controversial Hindu temple, delivering on a crucial Hindu nationalist pledge that he hopes will catapult the governing…
Ayodhya/Lucknow, India – Wearing her hijab, Yusra Hussain stood in the queue to enter a makeshift temple to the Hindu god Ram in Ayodhya, the…
New Delhi, India – Immediately after becoming the prime minister in 2014, Narendra Modi held backdoor negotiations with the Finance Commission of India to significantly…
Ayodhya, India – For hundreds of years, a journey to Ayodhya for many Hindu pilgrims meant a walk down narrow lanes to the Hanuman Garhi…
NewsFeedPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest tourism campaign in India’s tropical island territory of Lakshadweep has sparked an ugly row with Maldives government officials who believe…
Three deputy ministers were disciplined over social media posts about India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The government of the Maldives has suspended three deputy ministers…
India's Supreme Court has upheld a 2019 decision by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke special status for the state of Jammu…
Voting begins in Chhattisgarh and Mizoram states, testing national mood ahead of next year’s general elections. India has kicked off local elections in the central…
New Delhi had halted visas for Canadians after Ottawa implicated it in the killing of a Sikh activist near Vancouver. India has moved to renew…
Bengaluru, India – In March, before an India vs Australia Test match at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium, named in honour of India’s current prime minister,…