The party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi took control of West Bengal for the first time and made gains around the country. Its defeated opponents accused it of cheating.

On a brisk January morning in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, Narendra Modi dressed in a traditional kurta almost as white as his signature beard for a moment he had yearned for nearly his entire life. In a ceremony broadcast live across the world’s ...

The opposition obituaries had been written. According to most polls, India’s election was a foregone conclusion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing, Hindu-nationalist alliance was expected to secure a supermajority – and with it the power to ...

AHMEDABAD, IndiaAHMEDABAD, India — Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream. Nobody has done more to advance this cause than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of India’s most beloved and polarizing political leaders.

On a winter afternoon in January 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood before a podium, gazing out at a handpicked audience of the Indian elite: billionaires, Bollywood actors, cricket stars, nationalist politicians. Modi had come to the north-central ...

An Indian chief minister who ⁠was swept from power by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata ​Party (BJP) in state elections said on Tuesday that she had "not been defeated" and would not resign,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party was set to secure its first-ever election victory in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, expanding its support base across the country and bolstering his standing as the nation's most popular leader.