New Delhi, India – It was the month of Ramadan in 1974, and the northern city of Lucknow, a hub of India’s Shia community, was on the boil. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, a stalwart of India’s then-ruling ...

The BJP directly won only one of India’s four 2026 state elections, yet a wider political reorganisation may have brought its alliance closer to a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha ...

Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee waves to supporters while campaigning at Bhabanipur, India, in the West Bengal state assembly election, April 27, 2026. Credit: ...

Credit: Sumita Roy Dutta, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0. In a letter addressed to “young friends,” Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as India’s education minister on July 25 after taking “moral ...

India, the world’s largest democracy, faces the monumental task of conducting elections for a staggering electorate of over 1 billion voters. To put this into perspective, India’s voter base is almost ...

The belief that members of political dynasties are uniquely suited to lead is woven deeply into the fabric of Indian governance, from village councils to the highest echelons of parliament. But when ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Indian political parties are increasingly targeting women voters with fiscally draining handouts of cash around the time of elections to counter wider worries about ...

India’s recent state elections complicate claims that the BJP is consolidating a uniform national political order, with regional identities and political traditions continuing to shape electoral ...

The dominant figure in Indian politics for nearly two decades, she was elected prime minister four times before being assassinated by her bodyguards. Indira Gandhi in 1963. She served as India’s ...