NewsFeed This year’s election setback for India’s BJP came with hopes that attacks on Muslims might decrease after the ruling party was forced into a coalition. But Muslims say a new era of inclusiveness failed to materialise, and attacks against them have continued. Published On 6 Sep 20246 Sep 2024…
India’s government has assigned billions of dollars for job creation and regions run by key coalition partners in a budget aimed at cementing the coalition and winning back voters after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election setback. Tax changes unveiled in the budget on Tuesday included a higher levy on equity…
Six days after surviving an assassination attempt, former United States President Donald Trump took the stage at the Republican National Convention to accept the party nomination for the presidency. He went on to speak for more than 90 minutes — the longest acceptance speech in modern history. What was meant…
Islamabad, Pakistan – As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in for a third time as his country’s leader on June 9, seven counterparts from neighbouring nations joined a very select audience in marking the moment. The setting — a summer evening, with an orangish dusk sky, and handpicked…
New Delhi, India – On the afternoon of June 4, a crowd of several hundred young men gathered in front of a two-storey house in Mawar village, with a clear view of the Pir Panjal mountains in the background, in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Some of those in the crowd…
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has formed a coalition government with several partners after losing its outright majority in the election. Narendra Modi has been sworn in as India’s prime minister for a third term, after a shock election setback that will test his ability to ensure policy certainty in a coalition…
Coalition members, especially the larger parties, are expected to have demanded concessions, including ministerial posts in the cabinet. India’s Narendra Modi is set to be sworn in as the prime minister for a third term in power, but alongside a set of allies with whom he has formed a coalition…
Gandhi’s Congress party’s election results defied analysts’ expectations, and helped rehabilitate his political career. Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family that governed India for decades in the wake of independence, has been nominated to lead India’s opposition in parliament following an election result that pulled his party back from…
The surprise election result in India leaves the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi missing a chunk of voter support and at the helm of a tricky coalition. Will this new configuration loosen the screws on Indian media and give them space to reinvest in journalism rather than the sycophancy…
New Delhi, India – Vishal Paliwal, a 57-year-old worker of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), spent Tuesday afternoon sleeping at home as India counted over 640 million votes cast in its national election. A granite stone trader in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, Paliwal lost his livelihood after…
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