- Monday, March 31, 2025
INDIA'S ruling Bharatiya Janata Party said on Monday (8) that it would remove decades-old special rights for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, making an election promise that could provoke a backlash in the country's volatile only Muslim majority state. "Nationalism is our inspiration," prime minister Narendra Modi said at the…
Maoist rebels on Thursday (4) ambushed an Indian military patrol and killed four soldiers in a jolt to security ahead of a national election starting next week, officials said. Indian authorities also faced protests over the closure of a major highway in restive Kashmir state for two days a week…
Children from lower-income backgrounds, where mothers also had a low level of education, have weaker brain activity, a survey conducted in India showed. A team from the University of East Anglia (UEA) studied the brain function of children aged between four months and four years in rural India. The results…
It may look double Dutch to most Indians, but election campaign messages in Chinese characters are being used for the first time in the bustling metropolis of Kolkata. Slogans for local state chief minister Mamata Banerjee and against prime minister Narendra Modi, whose ruling party is trying to muscle in…
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi filed his papers on Thursday (4) to run for parliament from a southern constituency, aiming to strengthen his Congress party's prospects in a region where the ruling party has a limited presence. Although surveys show Congress is trailing prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party…
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi staged a massive rally in India's east on Wednesday (3), stepping up the battle with a local rival who could frustrate his party's return to power. Modi addressed tens of thousands of supporters in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, as its leader Mamata Banerjee, a…
A leader of India's low-caste community on Tuesday (2) told a court that setting up dozens of statues of herself reflected the will of the people to honour her and others at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy. Mayawati, an icon of the Dalits and a four-time chief minister…
INDIA'S main opposition Congress party made election pledges on Tuesday (2) to halve unemployment in five years, but its promise to change a law on special powers for troops in disputed Kashmir drew criticism from the ruling party. Congress has consistently trailed prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
The potential benefits accruing to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling alliance from a spike in nationalist sentiment following recent clashes with Pakistan might be waning, results of a nationwide opinion poll suggested. Tensions with neighbouring Pakistan soared after a suicide bomb attack in Kashmir region that killed 40 Indian…
Pakistan on Thursday (28) dismissed a dossier handed over by India in the wake of a suicide attack that nearly sparked a full-blown conflict earlier this month, saying the allegation that Pakistani groups were involved was unsubstantiated. At least 40 Indian security personnel were killed when a suicide bomber from…
