NEW DELHI (AP) — Indians began voting Saturday in the last round of a six-week-long national election that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in power. The election is considered one of the most consequential in India’s history. If Modi wins, he’ll be only the second Indian leader to retain […]
Ankur Rana types furiously into his phone, sending messages across the hundreds of WhatsApp groups he manages. “I have 400-450 WhatsApp groups which each have about 200-300 members. Apart from this, I have about 5,000 direct contacts. In this way, I personally reach 10-15,000 people every day,” the social media coordinator for the Bharatiya Janata […]
By Bharath Rajeswaran BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returning to power for a rare third consecutive term will boost shares of defence, infrastructure, railway and capital goods companies, the head of brokerage Motilal Oswal Financial Services said. “These were areas where the government has focussed on, invested money. High probability that the […]
By Bharath Rajeswaran BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returning to power for a rare third consecutive term will boost shares of defence, infrastructure, railway and capital goods companies, the head of brokerage Motilal Oswal Financial Services said. “These were areas where the government has focussed on, invested money. High probability that the […]
(Bloomberg) — Before India’s marathon election kicked off in April, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was promising to come back to power with an even bigger majority than he won five years ago. Most Read from Bloomberg With less than two weeks to go before election results are announced, the picture is looking less certain for […]
(Bloomberg) — Before India’s marathon election kicked off in April, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was promising to come back to power with an even bigger majority than he won five years ago. Most Read from Bloomberg With less than two weeks to go before election results are announced, the picture is looking less certain for […]
A screenshot from a digital poster shared by BJP-affiliated social media accounts. Credit – X Amid India’s weekslong election, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants voters to know that it’s about action, not talk. “Congress will say, BJP will do,” a poster shared recently by state- and district-level BJP […]
(Bloomberg) — Each day, Bloomberg journalists take you across a selection of towns and cities as they gear up for the big vote. Most Read from Bloomberg Hello, this is Satviki Sanjay, a reporter covering the consumer and healthcare sectors from Mumbai. My family hails from Hazaribagh, which means thousand gardens, a mining district in […]
MALAPPURAM, India (AP) — Preventing Muslim migrants from gaining citizenship. Revoking the semi-autonomy of the country’s only Muslim-majority region. Building a Hindu temple where a violent mob razed a mosque. These were political triumphs for Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the past decade, burnishing his reputation as a leader who prioritizes the interests India’s Hindu […]
More than four years after the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended the special status of Indian-administered Kashmir, the party has decided not to contest this year’s general election there. Political analysts and opposition leaders say the decision hints at anger in the region over the move – and the party’s acknowledgement of it. Relations […]
(Bloomberg) — Each day, Bloomberg journalists take you across a selection of towns and cities as they gear up for the big vote. Most Read from Bloomberg Hi, this is Devidutta Tripathy. I run Bloomberg’s South Asia breaking news team from New Delhi and hail from the coastal state of Odisha, which sends 21 lawmakers […]
Police in India have opened a case against senior leaders of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over a social media post that opposition leaders say “demonises Muslims”. The animated video depicts senior Congress party leaders granting benefits to Muslims at the expense of marginalised castes and tribespeople. Hours after the police case opened, the […]