India Elections
Female monk Pragya Singh Thakur was allegedly a leading plotter in a 2008 blast that killed six and injured around 100.
Updated 17 Apr, 2019 10:29pm
If a man like Azam Khan gets elected, who would guarantee safety and security of India's girls and women, Prada asks
Published 17 Apr, 2019 05:01pm
Women were excluded from the job loss estimates.
Updated 17 Apr, 2019 02:17pm
It is the first time a ballot has been cancelled in a national election over attempted vote-buying, officials say.
Updated 17 Apr, 2019 12:42pm
The Indian Election Commission is silent while the BJP is deliberately deploying a language of fear and hatred.
Updated 16 Apr, 2019 08:15pm
Indian election commission says Adityanath had spoken about a “green virus” in a speech in reference to Muslim voters.
Published 15 Apr, 2019 11:52pm
Bench tells commission that matters pertaining to elections are time sensitive and cannot be dragged.
Published 15 Apr, 2019 02:14pm
In India, political parties and their supporters often offer money or goods in exchange for votes.
Published 15 Apr, 2019 01:59pm
PDP leader says BJP is "using national security as a guise to prepare ground for another Balakot-like strike."
Published 15 Apr, 2019 01:34pm
Outgoing high commissioner to India calls for a review of the narrative regarding Pakistan in India.
Updated 14 Apr, 2019 10:18pm
Experts say Modi's re-election bid has received huge financial backing from corporate India.
Updated 14 Apr, 2019 03:02pm
India's Ministry of Defence terms linkage "totally inaccurate, tendentious and a mischievous attempt to disinform”.
Published 14 Apr, 2019 12:59am
BJP's Maneka Gandhi had warned Muslim community members to vote for her or be shunned if she returns to power.
Updated 14 Apr, 2019 12:37am
The Election Commission has ruled that no voter should have to travel more than 2 km from their home to cast a ballot.
Published 13 Apr, 2019 12:55pm
“Infiltrators are like termites in the soil of Bengal,” says Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah.
Published 12 Apr, 2019 11:31pm
It’s time for the minority community to vote ideologically in India’s largest state.
Published 12 Apr, 2019 03:13pm
NaMo TV, which shows 24-hour programmes on Modi rallies, speeches and songs and dances, broadcast as normal today.
Updated 12 Apr, 2019 11:53am
Election officials report a heavy turnout across the 20 states taking part in the first day of the massive exercise.
Updated 12 Apr, 2019 02:16pm
About 139.7 million people, including differently abled and transgender people, cast their vote.
Updated 11 Apr, 2019 10:59pm
Senators criticise Prime Minister Khan's statement, say Modi is a "danger to Pakistan".
Published 11 Apr, 2019 04:01pm
India has more WhatsApp users than any other democracy – and a worrying history of 'fake news'.
Published 11 Apr, 2019 03:24pm
"Modi has worked but not done enough for us," says one voter.
Updated 11 Apr, 2019 12:19pm
No politician in Indian history has been able to create a celebrity outreach program like Modi, say academics.
Published 11 Apr, 2019 08:47am
While there have been a few optimistic moments, Delhi’s hostility to Pakistan has been rising under the BJP.
Published 11 Apr, 2019 08:05am
"It seems that Imran Khan has become an election agent of Narendra Modi," says MNA Dr Nafisa Shah.
Updated 11 Apr, 2019 10:07am
The alliance led by Modi's BJP is poised to win a narrow majority of 273 of the 543 seats at stake, polls show.
Updated 11 Apr, 2019 12:55am
At least five transgender candidates are standing in the national election that begins on Thursday.
Updated 10 Apr, 2019 11:38pm
Sources say at least eight bureaucrats in the PM's office have either sought a transfer or plan to take retirement.
Updated 11 Apr, 2019 01:32pm
The traditional underrepresentation of Muslims in the police, army and bureaucracy now extends to elected assemblies.
Updated 06 Aug, 2019 04:24pm
Schemes/policies for women were a big part of the BJP’s pre-election promises. How many of them have been fulfilled?
Published 10 Apr, 2019 03:07pm
