The Latest Breaking News from India

India's new government inherits billion surplus to drive economic growth and stability.

Around the world, elections have become a testing ground for artificial intelligence (AI). India, the world's most populous nation with more than 1.4 billion people, is a case in point. The country is in the middle of its marathon elections, with the capital New Delhi voting over the weekend. The…

Police file culpable homicide charges, including negligence in handling toxic substances, against factory owners.

On May 20, five days before polling day in Delhi, the Congress party’s Chandni Chowk president, Rahul Dabla, was rushed to a hospital.

Voters from eight states and union territories will cast their ballots to elect 58 MPs in the sixth phase of polling.

Among the poll narratives in Haryana, ahead of voting across its 10 Lok Sabha seats on May 25, the protest by India’s top women wrestlers against alleged sexual assault by former wrestling federation chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has purportedly taken centre stage.

Even before India’s six-week general election has run its course, Hindu nationalists are confident the polls will result in a rare third term in office for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leader Narendra Modi. But the opposition says the incumbents will face stiff competition in the final…

Officials say at least nine people have been killed and 64 are injured in an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in western India

The BJP has won Delhi in all but two national elections since 1989. This time, its two biggest rivals have teamed up.

India’s 120 million farmers share fast-shrinking water resources as groundwater is pumped out faster than rain can replenish it

Narendra Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has resorted to religious polarisation as it tries to rally its Hindu nationalist base in India’s ongoing general election, which ends on June 1.