In the world's largest democracy, a hidden data trove and filmmaker testimonies reveal how India's censorship regime has now ...

Indian politics 2026 is set to be a transformative year, defined by the extensive Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of ...

Recent statements by Indian Prime Minister Modi and Foreign Minister Jaishankar suggest that change could be in the air.

NEW DELHI — Mahendra Kumar Jalan was an Indian millionaire with a diversified portfolio of food-processing plants, dairy farms and commercial real estate. As he faced scrutiny from the Indian ...

Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, a figure from the July Uprising, was allegedly shot by an Awami League activist, who has reportedly ...

On a stifling April afternoon in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, local politician Shakti Singh Rathore sat down in front of a greenscreen to shoot a short video. He looked nervous. It was his ...

When more than two dozen opposition parties in India announced they would band together as the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (or INDIA) last June, critics of the ruling Bharatiya ...

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Congress Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram said he has no regrets about not knowing Hindi, stating that he never had the opportunity to learn the language and that there was no necessity for him to do so ...

On a recent Sunday afternoon, Vineeta Gupta hosted 20 Indian American women at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Fueled by chana masala, naan and rice pudding, they wrote hundreds of postcards in ...

The religious bigotry struck at the heart of India’s secular democratic foundation and the constitutional values.

As a high-achieving group with an iron-clad will set on actualizing the American dream, it was only a matter of time before Indian Americans became politically active en masse. There’s Bobby Jindal, ...