Category: Indian Politics

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hectic travel schedule and his government’s advertising blitz over the past four-and-a-half years have cost Indian taxpayers about 65.9 billion rupees ($920 million). Narendra Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the…

A UK court has ruled that Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya should be extradited to India. Indian Investigators have demanded that Mallya, who defaulted on $1 billion in bank loans, be brought back to face charges. 65-year-old Indian businessman Vijay Mallya has been based in the UK since he left India in March 2016. Mallya…

India’s heartland voted on November 28 to kick off a year-long election cycle in the country which will include the important General Elections in April/May 2019. India is a federal parliamentary democratic republic in which the President of India is the head of state and the Prime Minister of…

Hours after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj discussed the extradition of Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper deal, with her counterpart in the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Michel was…

Inspector Subodh Kumar and a local youth were killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr when a mob went on a rampage over allegations of illegal cow slaughter. The officer was the investigating officer in the Akhlaq lynching case of 2015 In 2015 a mob lynching occurred in which a mob of villagers attacked the home…

Thousands of Indian farmers marched to the capital to demand that government bring in legislation providing a guaranteed minimum support price for their crops and freedom from debts. Farmer suicides in India, also known as the agrarian crisis, has been a problem for the country since 1990, caused by farmers inability…

India’s government is seeking to form panels to monitor the functions of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which could escalate tensions between the finance ministry and the bank. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India’s central banking institution, which controls the monetary policy of the Indian rupee..

The Indian Government replaced 4 members of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society. The members who were replaced had previously opposed the governments decision to add a Museum for Prime Ministers to the campus, believing it would dilute the legacy of India’s..

The head of India’s premier investigation agency has been removed from his position by the government. This contravenes Indian law that protects the tenure of the CBI chief to prevent their dismissal during high-profile probes. The questionable reputations of the deputy chief..

With hundreds of migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar fleeing Gujarat over the past few days, members of the UP-Bihar Ekta Manch released posters calling out Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he, too, must leave Varanasi as he is a Gujarati. These posters were seen in Sigra area of the…