India’s most prolific political campaigner is turning out to be the biggest proponent of ending the country’s unending cycle of elections.
India’s endless electoral carousel has completed another spin, and it’s been a good round for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
With a swanky logo in the backdrop and the brass of India Inc. before him, Narendra Modi launched his ambitious “Make in India” programme in Sept. 2014.
India’s court system has become so troubling and clogged that the country’s chief justice almost broke down in front of prime minister Narendra Modi on April 24, with an appeal to resuscitate it.
One app to do it all, one app to find them.
Much of Kapil Shelke’s childhood was spent tinkering with toy cars, with a penchant for dismantling and then putting them back together.
Indians are visiting hospitals in higher numbers than at any time in the past—and visiting them more often.
As a parched country looks to the heavens for relief, an annual competition is already underway: forecasting the Indian monsoon.
On Feb. 24, India’s education minister Smriti Irani mounted a spirited defence of her government’s recent actions at the Hyderabad Central University and New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
By 2 pm on Thursday (Feb. 18), a few hundred students, armed with posters and chants, seemed almost ready to charge out of Jadavpur University’s gate no. 4 in Kolkata. The handful of policemen, posted to control them, looked utterly outnumbered.
It either says too little, or too much. It either does nothing, or furiously overreacts.
All of Facebook’s clout, advertising blitzkrieg, and social media shenanigans were not enough to sway India’s telecom regulator.
The skepticism arrived soon after India’s Central Statistical Office (CSO) put out revised GDP numbers last January.
India loves Apple, but Apple couldn’t give a damn. Or so it seemed till now.
From Davos to New Delhi, prime minister Narendra Modi and his government are trying hard to sell the story of India’s revival. But Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has scarcely been more pessimistic about the state of the nation.
The warnings were sounded as soon as Narendra Modi pulled off his Christmas Day diplomatic coup. The Indian prime minister’s surprise visit to Pakistan, prudent voices from both sides of the border counselled, would likely attract saboteurs keen on stalling the resuscitation of the Indo-Pak peace process.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
Indian prime ministers aren’t in the habit of breezily dropping into Pakistan for a tea-time chat with their counterparts across the border, but Narendra Modi has boldly announced that he isn’t going to play by the book—and how.
In recent years, there are few countries that have suffered more from terrorism than Pakistan.
Mumbai, the sprawling metropolis on India’s west coast and the country’s financial capital, is home to over 20 million people—and dozens of leopards.
From the very beginning, it was a fight for Jonah Tali Lomu, the mercurial New Zealand rugby player who died today at the age of 40.
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The aftermath of the Paris terror attacks included calls for calm and solidarity—and some dangerous rumour-mongering and distortions.
For a moment, it seemed that the British prime minister David Cameron had stolen Narendra Modi’s thunder.
