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NARENDRA MODI

Chinese President Xi Jinping and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 24, 2024
Xi-Modi breakthrough followed months of pressure from India's CEOs
Indian businesses have increased pressure this year on Narendra Modi’s government to relax the restrictions on China.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 24, 2024
Germany is courting India as ties with China sour: What to watch
The trip to India comes at a crucial time for Germany as it struggles to revive its economy, which has been buffeted by the war in Ukraine and competition from China.
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a 56-year-old dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, speaks during an interview in New York on Oct. 18.  The U.S. Justice Department alleges that an Indian intelligence official had directed plans to assassinate Pannun, a Sikh separatist, last year.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2024
U.S. pressures India for accountability over Sikh separatist murder plot
Washington wants a speedy resolution of the matter, which has led to a U.S. indictment of a former Indian intelligence official over the foiled plot.
Indian soldiers disembark from a military transport plane at a forward airbase in Leh, in the Ladakh region, on Sept. 15, 2020.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 22, 2024
China and India end border impasse ahead of likely Xi-Modi meet
Relations between China and India have been frozen since June 2020 following clashes between soldiers along the disputed Himalayan border.
A street in Zakir Nagar, a Muslim neighborhood in New Delhi, last month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 19, 2024
In Modi's Delhi, Indian Muslims segregate to seek security
There is no official data on segregation in India, but it appears to be increasing among Muslims in recent years due to rising Islamophobia.
Moninder Singh, a spokesperson for BC Gurdwara council, speaks at a news conference at the site of a 2023 murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, in May.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 19, 2024
Warned by police, some of Canada's Sikhs feel threatened by India
The Canadian police said this week it has communicated more than a dozen threats to people who are advocating for Sikh separatism.
Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister (center) Melanie Joly, Canada's foreign minister (left) and Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's public safety, democratic institutions and intergovernmental affairs minister, during a news conference in Ottawa on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 17, 2024
Trudeau describes failed efforts at quiet diplomacy with Modi
Canada is not looking to provoke a fight with India and has repeatedly tried to give "off ramps” that have been rejected, Justin Trudeau said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) welcomes Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau upon his arrival at the Group of 20 Summit in New Delhi on Sept. 9, 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2024
Canada-India rift seen as a momentary gain for Modi and Trudeau
The divide could bolster Narendra Modi's image as a hawk on national security while taking the spotlight off of Justin Trudeau reportedly being asked to step down.
Omar Abdullah (center), leader of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference party, arrives to address the media outside his residence in Srinagar on Tuesday, after his election win in Indian-administered Kashmir.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 9, 2024
Indian Kashmir elects first regional government in a decade
Voters backed opposition parties to lead the Muslim-majority territory's regional assembly in the first local elections since 2014.
Indian soldiers participate in a mock drill exercise in New Delhi in 2016. The transfer of Indian munitions to support Ukraine's defense against Russia has occurred for more than a year, according to the sources and customs data.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 19, 2024
Ammunition from India enters Ukraine, raising Russian ire
The transfer of munitions to support Ukraine's defense against Russia has occurred for more than a year, according to the sources and the customs data.
Rakesh Tomar (right), an activist and founder of Hindu right-wing group Rudra Sena, speaks to people in Dehradun, the capital of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, on Aug. 6.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 6, 2024
India's far-right Hindus seek to drive Muslims out of 'holy land'
Much of the hatred last year was fueled by "love-jihad" conspiracies, claiming predatory Muslim men wanted to seduce Hindu women to convert them.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose at the entrance of the Mariinskyi Palace ahead of their meeting in Kyiv on Aug 23.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 27, 2024
In talks with Biden, India's Modi urges peace in Ukraine after trip
Last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Ukraine in the first visit by an Indian prime minister in modern Ukrainian history.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace at the entrance of the Mariinskyi Palace ahead of their meeting in Kyiv on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 24, 2024
After Russia, Modi visits Ukraine as he walks diplomatic tightrope
The Indian leader reiterated the need for “dialogue and diplomacy” to end the war, during talks in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at a news conference in Warsaw on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 23, 2024
Indian PM Modi set to visit Kyiv for talks with Zelenskyy
The visit, which follows a trip by Modi to Moscow in July, is important for Western-backed Kyiv.
California Assemblymember Dr. Jasmeet Bains, the first Sikh-American politician to be elected in the California State Legislature, poses for a picture with fellow assembly member Sharon Quirk-Silva while attending a luncheon gathering in Artesia, California, on June 8.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 13, 2024
Some U.S. Sikhs fear Modi government is threatening them
Some Sikhs in the U.S. described experiencing online harassment and surveillance at their homes.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media in New Delhi on June 7.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 1, 2024
India's state elections to test Modi after budget fails to aid swing voters
Despite talk of relief, the government has raised taxes on gains from retail investments, removed some real estate tax benefits and left income tax rates untouched.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media after his meeting with President Droupadi Murmu, to stake claim to form the new government at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on June 7.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 24, 2024
India's budget reflects new power realities of Modi's fickle coalition
Modi has been forced to rely on allies to run a government for the first time in his career.
Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy speaks in New Delhi in 2020. Roy is currently facing prosecution in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, an anti-terrorism law, for comments she made back in 2010 about Kashmir.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 12, 2024
The show trial of India's Arundhati Roy
Comments made by Roy, a Booker Prize-winning author, 14 years ago have put her in the crosshairs of the BJP, which is wielding an anti-terrorism law to punish her.
Russian President Vladimir Putin decorates Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called during a ceremony following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 10, 2024
Global ‘outcast’ Putin meeting a lot of world leaders
In just two months since he began his fifth presidential term in May, Putin has held more than 20 meetings with world leaders.
Smoke rises over the city after a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 9, 2024
Zelenskyy blasts Modi’s visit to Russia as a blow to peace
India has avoided censuring Russia for its war and abstained at United Nations votes on the issue.

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