Almost half of the MPs in the current session have criminal cases against them

India's new parliament, the Lok Sabha, convened on June 24 for its first session after a mammoth general election that lasted seven weeks. PM Narendra Modi, who has been in power since 2014, the election with his Hindu nationalist BJP lost the absolute majority. The BJP remains the strongest force, but Modi is in his third term of office, scheduled to last five years

The hype backfires: India’s surprise vote result

The surprise election result in India leaves the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi missing a chunk of voter support and at the helm of a tricky coalition. Will this new configuration loosen the screws on Indian media and give them space to reinvest in journalism rather than the sycophancy that dominated the airwaves so much of the time this past decade?

Prime Minister Modi inaugurates Hindu temple after decades-long dispute over site

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Lord Ram on the site of a mosque in Ayodhya. His Hindu-nationalist BJP party has been hyping up the event ahead of the elections.

India's PM Modi visits site of worst train crash in decades | DW News

 

Authorities in India say at least 288 people have been killed in a railway accident in the east of the country. Hundreds more were injured in what's being called the worst train accident in decades. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash site a short time ago - and said that he was 'distressed' by the devastation. His government has promised all possible assistance.

Ghosts of Gujarat: India bans the BBC’s Modi film

 

The Indian government’s decision to ban a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, which left more than a thousand people dead, has become its own story.

It has drawn global attention to Modi’s record in office and the subsequent decline of media freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

Students detained over planned screening of BBC Modi documentary

 

Several students at Jamia Millia Islamia university have been arrested ahead of the planned screening of a BBC documentary about the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The documentary looks at Mr Modi’s actions during the Gujarat riots in 2002, when nearly 1,000 people died.

India's government has tried to stop the documentary being shown.

Police in riot gear were deployed to the university's gates and university officials said it would not allow "unauthorised gatherings."

Breaking the Circle: What is it like to grow up in India today?

 

A British-Assamese filmmaker explores what it’s like to grow up in India after the Citizenship Amendment Act was passed.

India has one of the world’s youngest populations, and it’s these young people who will live with the consequences of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was passed in 2019.

British-Assamese filmmaker Leona Chaliha travels back to northeast India to explore the question of what it’s like to grow up in India after the passing of the Act.

Who is Narendra Modi? - India's path to becoming a world power

 

Many consider Narendra Modi to be the new strong man on the international stage. The right-wing nationalist has steered India's fortunes since 2014. He is the key player behind the new Indo-Pacific alliance against China.

Who is Narendra Modi ? - India's path to becoming a world power

 

Many consider Narendra Modi to be the new strong man on the international stage. The right-wing nationalist has steered India's fortunes since 2014. He is the key player behind the new Indo-Pacific alliance against China.

Can Narendra Modi stop hate speech in India?

 

RIghts groups say violence against minorities has risen since Narendra Modi became prime minister.

India’s history contains centuries of diversity and coexistence between different groups.

But its present times are marked by violence and hate speech against minorities.

What will state elections mean for India’s Modi?

 Regional vote is seen as a test for India’s prime minister and his governing Bharatiya Janata Party party.

Millions of people in India are voting in state elections this week and until March 7.

Ballots will be cast across five states.

Love jihad: India's lethal religious conspiracy theory

 

The mutilated body of a 24-year-old Muslim, Arbaaz Aftab Mullah, was discovered on a railway track near his home. His family believe he was murdered because of his interfaith relationship with a Hindu woman and that he is one of the latest victims of the 'love jihad' conspiracy theory, which has swept across groups of Hindu nationalists in India. The theory claims that Muslim men are seducing Hindu women and luring them into marriage in order to convert them to Islam. The claims are baseless, yet the consequences are real

What's behind India's U-Turn on its farming laws?

 

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the government will withdraw a set of controversial farming laws. 

For more than a year, farmers across India have been holding mass protests, strikes and sit-ins.

Their actions have been against a set of farm laws that, they say, hurt their livelihoods.

Has India’s democracy suffered long-term damage in the pandemic?

 

India’s official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is nearly half a million, second only to the United States. Many fear the actual figure is much higher. At the beginning of the year the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed it had defeated the virus.

COVID in India: Loss of trust in Modi government has people looking online

 

In India, the number of recorded COVID-19 infections has surpassed 24 million. 4,000 or more deaths were reported for the third consecutive day. Criticism has raged over the government's handling of the crisis.

India's COVID task force pushes for nationwide lockdown as deaths mount | DW News

 

Scientists in India are accusing the government of ignoring warnings of new, more dangerous variants of the coronavirus. A forum of advisers says ministers failed to impose large-scale restrictions despite the alert in March.

India faces oxygen crisis Oxygen explosion rips through Iraq hospital

 

Is Narendra Modi dismantling democracy in India?

 We challenge BJP spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam on India’s crackdown on dissent, and discuss the political and economic crisis in Lebanon.

India, long considered the world’s largest democracy, slid down the democracy scale this month, with Freedom House classifying it as “partly free”, and the V-Dem Institute calling it an “electoral autocracy” under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Why are India’s farmers angry?| Start Here

 

Hundreds of thousands of farmers in India have been protesting for months because of new farming laws they say will hurt them. But the government says it’s to fix an agriculture industry that everyone agrees needs fixing

India’s farmer protests: Grabbing the headlines, taking a stand

 

How the farmer protests in India are not just a political problem but also a PR problem for the Modi government. Plus, sports broadcasting in the age of a global pandemic.

Farmers’ protests in India keep growing despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government’s best efforts to contain the reporting.