Narendra Modi
22 Mar
A top Indian opposition politician appeared in court Friday to fight his arrest in a case supporters say is aimed at sidelining challengers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi before next month's election.
11 Mar
India's interior ministry said Monday it was enacting a citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims, just weeks before the world's most populous country heads into a general election.
10 Mar
India's second-highest ranked election commission official has resigned, the justice ministry said, days before the expected announcement of general elections in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek a third term.
2 Feb
Critics are accusing the Indian government of using law enforcement agencies to selectively target its political foes following the arrest of an opposition politician minutes after his resignation as a state Chief Minister.
22 Jan
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a temple Monday that embodies the triumph of his muscular Hindu nationalist politics, galvanising loyalists in an unofficial start to his re-election campaign this year.
29 Dec
In an Indian town known as a flashpoint for sectarian violence, workers are crafting the final touches on a divisive temple that has come to symbolise the country's rising tide of Hindu nationalism.
22 Dec
French President Emmanuel Macron will be the guest of honour at India's Republic Day parade in January
20 Dec
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he will investigate any evidence provided regarding an alleged plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. The US Justice Department last month charged an Indian citizen with plotting to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader on US soil, alleging an Indian…
2 Dec
When Canada accused India of killing a citizen on its soil, New Delhi dismissed the allegations as "absurd". Relations plunged and diplomats were expelled.
24 Sep 2023
Great admiration for Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India for recognising the need to have a representation of the African continent in the Group of Twenties (G20), in the last G20 summit held in India.
11 Sep 2023
Global stakeholders’ attention on the 15th Annual BRICS Summit held recently in South Africa is not misplaced. In particular, non-member countries should ponder on the prospect the new economic bloc portends as a formidable counterpoise to the overbearing dominance of the global economy..
10 Sep 2023
World leaders walked barefoot through puddles Sunday to pay their respects to revered Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, after monsoon downpours dampened Prime Minister Narendra Modi's set-piece G20 programme. Modi welcomed his guests to the site where the apostle of non-violence was cremated in January 1948, the day after he was gunned down by a…