Modi's project to make a Hindu India
India represents the most successful example in history of managing the challenge of unity in diversity, but the ruling party's Hindutva agenda threatens this achievement.
One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on Thursday, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. The highly publicized gang rape and murder of ...
Furor after top Bollywood star Deepika Padukone attends New Delhi student demo
One of Bollywood's top stars has sparked a social media storm after showing solidarity with students who were attacked at an Indian university this week. Indian film stars have traditionally shied away from politics, fearing their films could be boycotted or their safety threatened. The industry ...
Protests were held across India Monday after masked assailants wielding batons and iron rods went on a rampage at a top Delhi university, leaving more than two dozen injured. Controversy over Sunday's violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) comes as a new challenge to the ...
Dozens injured in attack at Delhi's elite Jawaharlal Nehru University as protests continue
Dozens were hurt at a prestigious Indian university on Sunday in what police said were clashes between rival student groups but which an opposition politician blamed on a student organization linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Unverified videos on social media appeared to show a ...
Children's death toll at government hospital in north India rises amid nationwide outcry
Some 109 children have so far died at a government hospital in northern India since the beginning of December, said a hospital official on Sunday, even as local authorities scrambled to bring in additional staff and equipment amid a rising outcry over poor health ...
India to take another shot at moon landing after crash last year
India will attempt a second moon landing, after a previous try last year failed just minutes before a scheduled touchdown on the lunar surface, in a bid to restore its credentials as an ambitious space power. The South Asian nation's Chandrayaan-3 mission to the moon, ...
India fetes New Year's Eve with protests over anti-Muslim citizenship law
Thousands of Indians ushered in the New Year by demonstrating against a citizenship law despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attempts to dampen protests that have run for nearly three weeks. The protests have rocked India since Dec. 12, when the government passed legislation easing the ...
Alleged killings of Muslims by Indian police fuel anger in national protests
Zaheer Ahmed had just returned home from work in northern India and stepped out for a smoke before lunch. Minutes later, he was dead, shot in the head. His death on Dec. 20, and the killing by gunfire of four other Muslim men the same ...
More India protests staged over biased citizenship law as Hindu hardliners flex muscles
Indians took to the streets again on Thursday in yet more protests against a citizenship law, a day after pro-government Hindu hardliners staged a show of force complete with horses, drums and batons. Two weeks of at times violent demonstrations have killed at least 27 ...
Kashmir border shootings leave two Pakistanis and two Indians dead
Pakistan and India traded fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, with the latest exchanges killing two Pakistani troops, an Indian soldier and a civilian woman, officials on both sides said Thursday. The Pakistani military said in a statement that its troops came under ...
Students, artists and writers join protests in India over new citizenship law
More than a thousand students, artists and writers protested in India's capital and northeastern Assam state on Wednesday against a new citizenship law introduced by the Hindu nationalist-led government that excludes Muslims. In Gauhati, Assam's capital, protesters sang patriotic songs urging unity, painted on canvases ...
