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India’s Rahul Gandhi supporters finish 5-month rally and march against increasingly nationalist state

Politics

Rahul Gandhi, head of India’s opposition Congress party, started a unity march last September from the southern tip of the country, which ended on Monday. Gandhi is trying to drum up support for his party, opposition to the ruling BJP and, many observers say, trying to uphold democracy in the face of what’s becoming an increasingly religious state.

Activists from right-wing Hindu organization Bajrang Dal burn an effigy of Islamic terrorism during a protest against the Tuesday killing of Kanhaiya Lal, a Hindu man in a suspected religious attack in western Udaipur city of Rajasthan state, in Ahmedabad

‘India is a tinderbox’: Religious tensions come to a boiling point after brutal murder of Hindu tailor

Violence
Several men supervise a voter registration table adorned with BJP flags during the election in Uttar Pradesh.

A test for Hindu nationalism as India’s biggest state goes to the polls

Elections
India Citizenship Bill protests

Citizenship law could do ‘irreversible damage’ to India’s secular fabric

A woman politician gives a thumbs up on back of truck

Women are becoming ‘electable’ candidates in India — even when they don’t win

Global Politics
India's Premier Modi in a street celebration

Huge crowds greet India’s Modi in his sacred city seat

Global Politics

India’s election is being held over 39 days from April 11 to May 19, with votes due to be counted on May 23.

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Modi silent as rapes spark fury, protests in India

Conflict

Mounting outrage over two rapes, one in the disputed region of Kashmir and another allegedly involving a lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, gripped India on Friday, with government ministers struggling to dampen political fires.

Supporters of Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP) take part in the celebrations outside the AAP office in New Delhi February 10, 2015.

India’s anti-corruption opposition party wins a shocker in New Delhi

Global Politics

Street celebrations broke out today in New Delhi when results of last weekend’s local elections were announced. The anti-corruption, opposition Aam Admi Party, or Common Man’s Party came up with a big upset win. “It was like a big fat Indian wedding,” one journalist says.

Clean India campaign

Indian politicians exposed cleaning up garbage intentionally left for them

Global Scan

India’s new prime minister wants to clean up his country — and he’s making all of his underlings go along with it. A leader in Delhi, though, may have missed the point. That story and more in today’s Global Scan.

Modi

India’s elections are over and Indians in the US have mixed feelings about the results

Global Politics

A landslide victory for India’s BJP has left the Indian community in the US divided and wondering what the new government of Narendra Modi might bring. A landslide victory for India’s BJP has left the Indian community in the US divided and wondering what the new government of Narendra Modi might bring.