Modi’s BJP once controlled media narratives in India, but this might be changing with the ‘Cockroach’ movement.

For days the streets and parks in the center of India’s capital have seethed with the biggest demonstrations it has seen in years as young protesters demand change to a national exam system they say ...

India’s student protesters have no weapons but comedy, yet their jokes and satire rattled an authoritarian government and brought down a minister. What does their laughter teach us about the political ...

India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar shakes hands with Taliban Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, October 10, 2025. Credit: X/Dr S ...

Indian elections are no longer just battles between political parties. They are becoming contests between larger-than-life personalities — and no leader has reshaped this political culture more ...

Rather than presenting history as a distant sequence of events, Swaraj looks at how India experienced, recorded and remembered its political transformation. The journey begins with early European ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political party won its first-ever state elections in West Bengal. Modi’s popularity was seen to be waning when, two years ago, his party failed to secure a ...

NARENDRA MODI, India’s prime minister, is a once-in-a-generation political phenomenon. He commands support for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across class, caste and language. He is the face of his ...

Indian politics has acquired an unusual mascot: the cockroach. A satirical collective that takes inspiration from the insect – stubborn, reviled and considered indestructible – has attracted millions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental activist Sonam Wangchuk has survived for 19 days on just salt water at a hunger strike in Delhi [Hindustan Times via ...

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 ...