Indian politics

India

India's Narendra Modi secures third term, despite drop in support

India's 'popular but polarising' Prime Minister Narendra Modi extends his decade in power and vows to continue with his agenda.

04/06/2024

India

Counting begins in India mega-election

Voting in the world's largest democracy is widely seen as a referendum on the current prime minister Modi.

04/06/2024

India

India votes in final election round, as Modi seeks third term

Indians began voting on Saturday in the last round of a six-week-long national election that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in power.

01/06/2024

Green News

‘I am so poor I have to work’: Delhi hit by red alert heatwave

With India midway through its general election, there are concerns about the impact of the ongoing extreme heat on voters.

20/05/2024

Travel News

Why are Indian tourists boycotting the Maldives?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's holiday photos have caused tensions between the two countries to boil over.

11/01/2024

Europe Decoded

Why is so much anti-Palestine disinformation coming from India?

Misinformation about the war between Israel and Hamas is rife on social media. But what stands out in this online chaos is that a lot of the accounts pushing these false narratives are primarily from India.

18/11/2023

World News

Rescuers dig to reach workers trapped in collapsed tunnel in India

Rescuers were digging through dirt and parts of a collapsed road tunnel on Monday to reach 40 workers trapped by a landslide at a construction project in northern India.

13/11/2023

Australia

Indian PM strengthens ties with Australia on second official visit

Indian Prime Minister seeks to strengthen ties with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese as he is warmly received in Sydney.

23/05/2023

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Muslim-owned shops demolished in New Delhi

Authorities in New Delhi used bulldozers on Wednesday to destroy a number of Muslim-owned shops before the Supreme Court halted the demolitions.

20/04/2022

India

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee dies aged 84

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Mukherjee, saying he “left an indelible mark on the development trajectory of our nation”.

31/08/2020

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Protests in cities across India against Donald Trump visit

Street demonstrations against Trump broke out in the cities of Gauhati in the northeast, Kolkata in the east and Hyderabad in the south

25/02/2020

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Politicians protest over India's controversial new citizenship law

Opponents of India's controversial new citizenship law have held a protest in New Delhi.

31/01/2020

India

India rocked by wave of violent protests against citizenship law

This fifth straight day of protest across India came after Modi’s government enacted a bill that excludes Muslims from future citizenship.

17/12/2019

India

India deploys troops to curb violent protests over citizenship law

As India's upper house of parliament passed a bill making it easier for non-Muslim minorities from some neighbouring countries to seek Indian citizenship, protests took place in the state of Assam.

12/12/2019

Business Series

7 things from Davos 2018 that people were really talking about

Trump's 'fake news' rant grabbed international headlines but on social media, users were discussing a wealth of other key subjects. Here are the posts that created the biggest buzz.

26/01/2018

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Queer Pride celebrates a decade of Indian activism in New Delhi

Homosexuality remains deeply taboo and punishable by law in world's biggest democracy.

12/11/2017

World

Indian women in the workforce: discussion from the India Economic Summit

India has one of the lowest female labour force participation rates in the world, and this number is declining.

06/10/2017

India

Protests at killing of senior Indian journalist

Senior Indian Gauri Lankesh was gunned down on Tuesday evening as she returned to her home in Bangalore, capital of the state of Karnataka.

06/09/2017

India

India divided over 'GST' sweeping sales tax reform

The new nationwide GST levy is India's biggest tax reform in the 70 years since independence.

01/07/2017

India

Hammond sweet-talks Delhi with prospect of trade deals as EU looks on warily

Britain's finance minister is in India trying to drum up some post-Brexit trade support as two nations agree to set up joint investment fund.

04/04/2017