A few weeks before the campaigning for the Indian parliamentary polls ended, two key leaders of the Congress confided that the party should remain out of power for another 10 years in order to revive itself organisationally. One of them was from Rajasthan who occupies a key post in the party’s government there and the other one was from Uttar Pradesh who was a former cabinet minister in Manmohan Singh’s government. Obviously, the two leaders did not want to go on record as having said this. But their remark reflected the present condition within the Congress.

Narendra Modi, who powered the Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, is sworn in as Prime Minister for a second straight five-year term.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah is all set to be inducted into the cabinet of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi who will be sworn in for a second straight term at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.

All eyes are on the Cabinet that will take oath with Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in India.

After a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections, India’s main opposition Congress has decided not to send its spokespersons for participation in TV debates for a month.

India's Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, who will take oath for his second consecutive term on Thursday, started his day with a visit to Rajghat, Sadaiv Atal Samadhi and National War Memorial. The oath ceremony will take place in the evening at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Making a U-turn in less than 24 hours, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says she would not attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's oath-taking ceremony in New Delhi tomorrow.

Reflecting enhanced bilateral security cooperation, a team of India's counter-terror agency National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials is in Sri Lanka to probe two Islamic State (IS)-related cases which could have possible links to the April 21 Easter terror attack that killed more than 250 people in the island nation.

Soon after becoming the prime minister of India for the first time five years ago, Narendra Modi had declared that the guiding light of his government would be “sabka saath, sabka vikas”. On May 25, 2019, he added two more words to that slogan: “sabka viswas”.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on former president Pranab Mukherjee and sought his blessings ahead of his swearing-in.

Leaders of the seven countries of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 30.

India will not invite Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to Thursday's swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi, who starts his second term as India's prime minister, two sources in the foreign ministry say, suggesting any early warming in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours is unlikely.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday that ‘chemistry beat arithmetic’ in this election.

The fresh spate of political violence that has kept West Bengal burning since before the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 claimed the life of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, who was shot dead in North 24 Parganas district on Sunday night.

Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi thanks the people of Varanasi for re-electing him from the constituency in the Lok Sabha elections 2019.

Kerala’s coastal areas of India were put on high alert after intelligence reports said that terrorists affiliated to the Islamic State are on their way to Lakshadweep in boats from Sri Lanka.

A BJP worker, who closely worked with Smriti Irani during her Lok Sabha election campaign in India’s Amethi, has been allegedly shot dead.

With Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party securing a landslide win in the Indian elections, AFP looks at the key economic challenges facing Asia's third-biggest economy:

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says she offered to quit but her party Trinamool Congress refused to accept the resignation.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi offers to resign from the party post taking responsibility for its abject defeat in the just ended parliamentary elections while the party's top decision-making forum unanimously rejected it.