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India youth protests highlight mistrust in 'lapdog' media
6 August 2026
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Lightning strikes kill 14 in India’s Jharkhand
6 August 2026
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Hasina not allowed to use Indian soil for politics
1 August 2026
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Videos on Modi: Meta India head named in police case
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India suspends policeman for firing AK-47 at student protesters
27 July 2026
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Indian activists demand release of detained 'cockroach' protesters
27 July 2026
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Post-youth protests: Modi announces panel to overhaul exam system
27 July 2026
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Modi to undertake visit to Bangladesh; dates to be fixed later
In his second term as Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will undertake a visit to Bangladesh and dates for it would be fixed through diplomatic channels.
1 June 2019
Modi to face foreign pressures
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a second term in office after responding to a suicide attack on Indian paramilitary forces in troubled Kashmir with an airstrike inside Pakistan, allowing him to turn voters’ attention away from the country’s highest unemployment rate in decades.
31 May 2019
Full list of Modi cabinet members
The Cabinet portfolios are announced, a day after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 57-member council of ministers were sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
31 May 2019
6 women ministers in Modi govt
There are six women in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government, including actress-turned-politician Smriti Irani who defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Amethi in recent parliamentary elections.
31 May 2019
Modi’s Cabinet: Amit Shah gets Home Ministry, Defence goes to Rajnath Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah is appointed India’s new Home Minister as Prime Minister Narendra Modi allocates portfolios a day after being sworn in for a second straight term as the head of government.
31 May 2019
India to see 'big-bang' reforms in Modi's second term
In the first 100 days of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term, a slew of 'big-bang' economic reforms that should please foreign investors are likely to be pursued, according to a top official at the government's main think tank.
31 May 2019
Mamata fumes over ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is thrown into a fit of fury by a group of men chanting “Jai Shri Ram” slogan as her motorcade passes through Bhatpara in North 24 Parganas district.
31 May 2019
Trump decision to end India’s preferential trade status ‘done deal’, says US official
A US decision to evict India from a key trade pact is a “done deal,” an official says, despite Washington’s desire for close relations with re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
31 May 2019
Modi's first cabinet meet today
The first meeting of the new Union Cabinet headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Lok Sabha elections will take place in Delhi today.
31 May 2019
Where does Congress go from here?
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.
30 May 2019
Modi sworn in as India PM
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.
30 May 2019
BJP Chief Amit Shah to be part of Narendra Modi’s cabinet
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.
30 May 2019
Cabinet calls: Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Nirmala Sitharaman among top names
All eyes are on the Cabinet that will take oath with Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in India.
30 May 2019
Congress won’t appear in talk shows for a month
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.
30 May 2019
Ahead of oath ceremony, Modi pays tribute at National War Memorial
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.
30 May 2019
Mamata refuses to attend Modi swearing-in
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.
29 May 2019
Islamic State cases: Indian investigators in Sri Lanka
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.
29 May 2019
Mamata to attend Modi's oath ceremony
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi as second-time Prime Minister.
29 May 2019
Modi, minorities and their ‘viswas’
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”.
28 May 2019
Modi meets Pranab, seeks his blessings
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on former president Pranab Mukherjee and sought his blessings ahead of his swearing-in.
28 May 2019