GOA'S AGRICULTURE MINISTER WANTS FARMERS TO USE 'COSMIC FARMING' INSTEAD OF FERTILIZER

Sardesai's Goa Forward Party is in coalition with Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of Goa, which has a large Catholic minority... READ MORE›

INTERPOL SEEKS ARREST OF INDIAN BILLIONAIRE JEWELER NIRAV MODI

Interpol has issued a red notice for the arrest of Indian billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, who is at the centre of an alleged 2bn bank fraud... READ MORE›

A RECENT EPISODE OF PRIYANKA CHOPRA'S 'QUANTICO' HAS INDIANS FUMING

But a recently aired episode of the show, Quantico, has angered many Indians... READ MORE›

AT SHANGRI-LA SUMMIT, TWO VIEWS OF A NEW INDO-PACIFIC ORDER

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who earlier visited Indonesia and Malaysia as part of a high-profile regional tour, delivered this year's keynote address... READ MORE›

WITH PORTS, SHIPS AND PROMISES, INDIA ASSERTS ROLE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

In January, India finalised a logistics exchange arrangement with France under which it can use French military facilities in the Indian Ocean... READ MORE›

INDIA'S NEW TEXTBOOKS ARE PROMOTING THE PRIME MINISTER'S FAVORITE POLICIES, CRITICS ALLEGE

India's new textbooks are promoting the prime minister's favorite policies, critics allege... READ MORE›

NARENDRA MODI'S BJP PARTY SUFFERS SETBACK IN BY-ELECTION

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP party received a serious setback in recent by-elections, results showed on Thursday... READ MORE›

INDIAN MINISTER IRANI SHUNTED OUT OF CABINET AGAIN

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi reshuffled his cabinet on Monday and removed controversial minister Smriti Irani from her post as Information and Broadcasting Minister... READ MORE›

INDIA'S MODI VISITS NEPAL IN BID TO COUNTER CHINA INFLUENCE

Oli, then serving his first term as prime minister, won huge public support as he stoked nationalist anti-India sentiment over the blockade... READ MORE›

IN PM NARENDRA MODI'S POLL SPEECHES, FACTS BECOME CASUALTY

Both US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Modi have a complex relationship with fake news and false statements ... READ MORE›

PM MODI, PRESIDENT XI JINPING COULD MEET THREE MORE TIMES THIS YEAR

China and India, the two biggest developing countries and emerging economies -each with a population of over one billion, are important countries with strategic autonomy... READ MORE›

PM MODI, XI JINPING STROLL BY LAKE AND HAVE A BOAT RIDE IN WUHAN

President Xi Jinping and I continued our deliberations this morning... We discussed multiple aspects of bilateral ties between our nations, Modi tweeted... READ MORE›

CHINA, INDIA AGREE TO MAINTAIN BORDER PEACE AS MODI WRAPS UP VISIT

China is also suspicious of India's hosting of the Dalai Lama and other exiled Tibetans... READ MORE›

CHINA'S XI, INDIA'S MODI SEEK NEW RELATIONSHIP AFTER SUMMIT

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they walk along the East Lake in Wuhan, China, April 28, 2018... READ MORE›

CANDID TALKS FOR ELEVATING CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS

Which, in turn, will be conducive to improving mutual trust between the neighbors and charting the course of long-term bilateral development... READ MORE›

INDIA'S MODI TO TAKE BOAT RIDE WITH XI ON FINAL DAY OF CHINA TRIP

China is also suspicious of India's hosting of the Dalai Lama and other exiled Tibetans... READ MORE›

WHEN MODI AND XI MEET INDIAN ELECTIONS WILL SET THE TONE

But in the decades since, while China has rapidly industrialized, India has struggled more... READ MORE›

XI, MODI TO MEET IN CENTRAL CHINA

Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold an informal meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 27-28 in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province... READ MORE›

CHINA AND INDIA SEE UPSWING IN RELATIONS

High-level visits between India and China have never seen such a scale and speed... READ MORE›

INDIAN PRIME MINISTER TO VISIT CHINA THIS WEEK AS RAPPROCHEMENT GATHERS PACE

We will make sure that the informal summit will be a complete success and a new milestone in the history of China-India relations... READ MORE›

DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD RAPE GETS APPROVED IN INDIA

More recently, a sexual attack on an 11-year-old girl was reported in Modi's home state of Gujarat... READ MORE›

AHEAD OF SUSHMA SWARAJ'S VISIT, CHINA BACKS PAKISTAN OVER PM MODI'S 'TERROR EXPORT FACTORY' REMARKS

Swaraj will be arriving here tomorrow to attend the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation here, to be held on April 24... READ MORE›

'DON'T COMPLICATE MAKE IN INDIA FOR US; PROTECTIONISM DOESN'T HELP IN THE LONG RUN'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also have a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Finland... READ MORE›

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INDIA ABOLISHES 500 AND 1,000 RUPEE NOTES TO FIGHT CORRUPTION

Five hundred rupee 7.5 and 1,000 rupee notes will cease to be legal tender from Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an unscheduled address to the nation... READ MORE›

WHY INDIA WIPED OUT 86% OF ITS CASH OVERNIGHT

The size of this shadow economy is reckoned to be as much as 20 percent of India's entire GDP... READ MORE›

INDIA STATE TO GIVE LIFE SENTENCES FOR COW SLAUGHTER

But Modi's ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, which recently won India's largest state Uttar Pradesh in a landslide, has long campaigned for the protection of cows... READ MORE›

MOB KILLS MUSLIM MAN TRANSPORTING COWS IN INDIA

Critics say the vigilantes have been emboldened by the election in 2014 of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party BJP ... READ MORE›

PALESTINIANS UNHAPPY OVER MODI SNUB ON ISRAEL TRIP

Modi was welcomed by his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday as he became the first Indian leader to visit Israel... READ MORE›

WHY DOES INDIAN PM MODI FOLLOW TROLLS?

Award-winning Indian actor Prakash Raj recently joined the long list of people asking why Prime Minister Narendra Modi follows trolls on Twitter... READ MORE›

OVER 25 MILLION PEOPLE APPLY FOR INDIAN RAILWAY JOB VACANCIES

India's unemployment rate surged to a 15-month high of 6.1 percent in February, think-tank CMIE said... READ MORE›

WHAT WILL INDIA DO WITH 23 BILLION WORTHLESS BANKNOTES?

The notes would make a pile 300 times the height of Everest... READ MORE›

17 INDIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN ATTACK ON KASHMIR BASE

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly condemned what he called the cowardly terror attack ... READ MORE›

WHY AREN'T INDIANS ANGRIER OVER NOTE BAN FAILURE?

For years, this country has felt that corruption, black money and terrorism are festering sores, holding us back in the race towards development... READ MORE›

THE STRANGE CONSEQUENCES OF INDIA'S UNPRECEDENTED BANKNOTE BAN

In the short-term though, the biggest crackdown on money laundering in India's history is having some unusual side-effects... READ MORE›

SCORES KILLED IN DERAILMENT NEAR KANPUR

At least 96 people are killed and 150 injured after an express train derails near Kanpur in northern India... READ MORE›

INDIA: NATIONWIDE PROTESTS TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR RAPE VICTIMS

Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a 50-year-old member of the Uttar Pradesh state legislative assembly, was arrested on Saturday following public outcry... READ MORE›

GUJARAT'S MEVANI LEADS A NEW YOUTH CHARGE AGAINST MODI'S BJP

They are young, brash, unabashed and ready to take on India's popular Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janta Party BJP ... READ MORE›

MEGYN KELLY ASKED NARENDRA MODI IF HE USES TWITTER. HIS 30 MILLION FOLLOWERS RESPONDED.

The Indian prime minister is the third-most-followed world leader on Twitter... READ MORE›

ANALYSIS | ERDOGAN AND MODI AREN'T THE TRUMPS OF THE EAST

Turkey and India are both large, complicated countries in their own right... READ MORE›

YOGAS DAY ARRIVES IN INDIA AND BEYOND

Senior ministers from Mr. Modi's cabinet took part in yoga events in Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow and Shimla... READ MORE›

INDIA WRITERS RETURN AWARDS TO PROTEST GOVERNMENT SILENCE ON VIOLENCE

While Mr. Modi did not address the writers' revolt, his allies have been merciless... READ MORE›

FIREBRAND HINDU CLERIC PICKED AS UTTAR PRADESH MINISTER

Mr. Adityanath, who is often seen wearing the saffron robes of a Hindu priest, told followers he would focus on Mr. Modi's economic agenda... READ MORE›

BOLLYWOOD FILM PADMAAVAT RELEASED AMID TIGHT SECURITY

Paramilitary forces stood guard outside cinema halls in Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat, the home state of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday... READ MORE›

KURDISH FORCES CELEBRATE IN KOBANI

Eight years ago, India signed up for the quadrilateral security dialogue, an experiment that included Australia, Japan and the United States -- but not China... READ MORE›

27 CHILDREN DIE AS INDIA SCHOOL BUS PLUNGES OFF CLIFF

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was anguished by the loss of lives in the latest incident... READ MORE›

NARENDRA MODI'S BJP SET TO WIN GUJARAT STATE ELECTION

New Delhi, India - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP is set to win a key election contest in the western state of Gujarat... READ MORE›

PM NARENDRA MODI LEADS THOUSANDS IN CELEBRATION

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led thousands in a mass yoga programme in the capital Delhi on the first ever International Yoga Day... READ MORE›

HOW A HALF-BILLION-DOLLAR STATUE IS DIVIDING INDIA

King Shivaji fought India's Muslim Mughal empire in the 17th century and carved out his own kingdom in the Maharashtra region near modern-day Mumbai... READ MORE›

ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A SCIENTIST NOT ENOUGH FOR SOME U.S. REPUBLICANS

Just before the speech, in fact, he met with Kailash Satyarthi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has long fought child slavery in India... READ MORE›

NARENDRA MODI WON'T STOP HUGGING WORLD LEADERS NO MATTER HOW AWKWARD IT IS

Jason Aldag,Adam Taylor The Washington Post Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known to be a tactile man... READ MORE›

FAMILY'S $29 BILLION FORTUNE CLAIM DENIED AMID INDIA'S TAX HUNT

Another man from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat revealed 138.6 billion rupees of illegal income, locally known as black money... READ MORE›

HOW INDIA'S CASH CHAOS IS SHAKING EVERYONE FROM FAMILIES TO BANKS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealing to Indians to bear the pain for just a little while longer... READ MORE›

INDIA PULLS 500, 1,000-RUPEE NOTES TO 'FIGHT GRAFT'

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ordered the withdrawal of 500 and 1,000-rupee notes from circulation on Tuesday in a shock announcement designed to tackle widespread corruption... READ MORE›