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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal having dinner at the house of auto driver Vikrambhai Dantani, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 12 September 2022

Assembly polls Congress is finished in Gujarat: Kejriwal

After its landslide victory in the recently held Punjab Assembly elections, AAP is seeking to expand its footprints in other states

Chief minister of India's West Bengal Mamata Banerjee with prime minister Sheikh Hasina in Kolkata on 22 November, 2019

Centre did not allow me to meet Bangladesh PM Hasina: Mamata Banerjee

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, during the joint press statement at Hyderabad House, expressed hope that the issue of Teesta water sharing with India will be resolved soon

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he delivers a speech after he inaugurated India International Bullion Exchange (IIBX), India's first international bullion exchange, at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, or GIFT City in Gandhinagar, India on 29 July, 2022

Modi’s party loses crucial Indian state after ally switches sides

Prime minister Narendra Modi’s party on Tuesday lost power in Bihar, the third most populous state in India, after its regional ally broke ranks to join an opposition alliance that now has the ...

Vice President-elect Jagdeep Dhankhar being felicitated by India's central Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, at his residence, in New Delhi on 6 August 2022

Ex-West Bengal governor Dhankhar India’s new Vice President

With Dhankhar’s election as vice-president, the presiding officers of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will be from Rajasthan

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi being detained during the nationwide protest against unemployment and inflation, at Vijay Chowk, in New Delhi on Friday.

India Rahul, Priyanka detained; Section 144 imposed in New Delhi

Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor, were detained while marching to Rashtrapati Bhavan to mark their protest against inflation, price rise, GST and ...

Indian president Droupadi Murmu accompanied by former president Ram Nath Kovind, chief justice of India (CJI) justice NV Ramana and Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla after taking her oath, in New Delhi on 25 July

Droupadi Murmu sworn in as India's first tribal president

Droupadi Murmu was sworn in as India's president on Monday, making her the first person from one of the country's marginalised tribal communities to serve as head of state.

Droupadi Murmu

Droupadi Murmu wins Indian presidential election

A woman from India's tribal minority, Droupadi Murmu, was elected as the country's president Thursday with the backing of the ruling party, making her the first person from the marginalised community ...

Former Amnesty India chief Aakar Patel is fined nearly US $1.3 million

India fines Amnesty nearly $8m, the watchdog says part of ‘witch hunt’ step

Rights groups have long claimed they face harassment from prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist administration for highlighting rights abuses, including in the disputed territory of Kashmir

Court

Narail teacher’s humiliation: Four placed on 3-day remand

A Narail court on Sunday placed four accused in a case filed over the humiliation of a college teacher in the district on a three-day remand

Indian Supreme Court

Nupur Sharma ‘should apologise to the whole country’: SC

The bench said on her complaint a person is arrested, but despite multiple FIRs she has not yet been touched by Delhi police

Uddhav Thackeray

Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray resigns

The chief minister of India's western state of Maharashtra, the richest state in the country, resigned late on Wednesday, after a group in his ruling party defected to the opposition.

A meeting of the rebel MLAs begins in the presence of Eknath Shinde, at hotel in Guwahati on 25 June 2022

Maharashtra politics Eknath Shinde camp denies BJP role’s behind revolt in Shiv Sena

Eknath Shinde claims to have the support of 38 MLAs of the 56 Shiv Sena legislators, which is more than two-thirds of the party’s strength in the 288-member Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

A Taliban fighter stands guard in front of a Sikh temple following an attack by gunmen in Kabul on 18 June, 2022

Islamic State claims Kabul Sikh temple attack

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a Sikh temple in Afghanistan that killed one community member and a Taliban fighter, saying it was retaliation for insults against the ...

A policeman fires a gun during a protest against "Agnipath scheme" for recruiting personnel for armed forces, in Patna, in the eastern state of Bihar, India on 17 June, 2022

One dead in India unrest over new military recruitment system "Agnipath"

Prime minister Narendra Modi’s government unveiled the new recruitment system this week, called Agnipath or “path of fire” in Hindi, triggering turmoil with police firing into the air to break up ...

BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma

US condemns BJP leaders' remarks on Prophet

The United States on Thursday condemned remarks by Indian ruling party officials about the Prophet Mohammed that have sparked an uproar in Muslim countries

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