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India's Congress leader Rahul Gandhi faces backlash over poor election performance
Honest, intelligent and open to new ideas is how officials of India's main opposition Congress describe their leader, Rahul Gandhi, but the party's election performance has been so poor he now risks losing even his family's traditional seat. As vote-counting trends on Thursday showed Prime ...
Narendra Modi promises inclusive India after stunning election win
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to unite the country on Thursday after a huge election win, with his party on course to increase its majority on a mandate of pursuing business-friendly policies and a hard line on national security. Official data from India's Election ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling alliance is likely to win a big majority in parliament after a mammoth general election that ended on Sunday, most exit polls showed, a far better showing than expected in recent weeks. Modi faced criticism early on in the ...
After five weeks, India's marathon national election reaches the finish line
Voting in India's mammoth national election ended Sunday with the seventh and final phase of a grueling poll that lasted more than five weeks, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party seeks to govern for another five years. Vote counting begins Thursday, and the ...
Six weeks on, India's marathon election reaches next-to-last phase
Indians voted Sunday in the next-to-last round of a six-week-long national election marked by a highly acrimonious campaign that has seen Prime Minister Narendra Modi blame opposition party chief Rahul Gandhi's family for the country's ills. Sunday's voting in 59 constituencies, including seven in New ...
West Bengal ruling party activist arrested for posting see-through dress meme on social media
Indian police have detained a ruling party activist after she posted a meme superimposing the head of a state chief minister on a photograph of a Bollywood star in a see-through dress, an officer said Saturday. The announcement injected controversy into campaigning ahead of polls ...
Modi's bulging war chest leaves India election rivals in the dust
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party is flush with cash, giving his Hindu nationalist bloc a massive advantage over the main opposition Congress party as he seeks to win a second term in India's general election. Opaque campaign financing in the world's largest ...
India's rich and famous go to the polls as marathon election comes to Mumbai
Billionaires and Bollywood stars took their turn with Mumbai's slum dwellers Monday to vote in India's marathon election as Prime Minister Narendra Modi steps up his nationalist campaign to sway the 900 million electorate. India's film and finance capital took center stage in the fourth ...
'Horrific,' 'cruel,' 'sad': World leaders react to Sri Lanka terror blasts
Religious and world leaders condemned a series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed more than 200 people on Sunday, including dozens of foreigners — with British, Dutch and American citizens believed to be among them. Hospital sources also said Japanese citizens were among those ...
Indian poll watchdog pulls plug on web series featuring Narendra Modi
Weeks after it banned a Bollywood film and clamped down on a TV channel devoted to the right-wing leader, India's poll watchdog on Saturday ordered producers to stop streaming a web series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Election Commission of India — an autonomous ...
India's debt-stricken Jet Airways halts all operations; 20,000 jobs in limbo
India's debt-stricken Jet Airways halted all of its operations Wednesday after failing to secure emergency funding from lenders, leaving it teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. "Jet Airways is compelled to cancel all its international and domestic flights. The last flight will operate today," it ...
Two politicians temporarily banned from campaigning in Indian election over comments
India's election watchdog Monday banned two outspoken politicians from campaigning in the country's national vote for making provocative speeches which it said could stir communal unrest. The measures came after the Supreme Court called on the Election Commission to get tough on hate speech during ...
