Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

In this photograph taken on June 29, 2021 journalists work in the newsroom of the Mumbai Samachar newspaper, in the newspaper's office in Mumbai. (AFP)

Modi's billionaire allies are gutting Indian media says veteran journalist

In an interview with news outlet Zeteo, veteran Indian journalist Sreenivasan Jain says billionaire-backed media takeovers are undermining press freedom in India and warns similar ownership trends are emerging in other countries.

July 29, 2026

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke (C) takes part in a protest over alleged irregularities in the country's major examinations, in New Delhi on June 6, 2026. (File photo: AFP)

Indian students accuse BJP of dodging accountability as protest enters day 16

Students say the government has failed to respond to student suicides and condemned the education minister's remarks describing protesters as 'terrorists,' arguing that elected leaders must be held accountable for their actions.

July 5, 2026

Israel’s opposition threatens to boycott PM Modi’s speech, Indian embassy 'in a panic'

Israeli opposition, led by Yair Lapid, may boycott Indian PM Narendra Modi’s Knesset speech due to Supreme Court President Isaac Amit’s exclusion.

February 24, 2026

Modi targets TMC, claims ‘infiltrators’ stealing rights of youth, tribals

Warns young citizens are being deprived of opportunities because of policies that, according to him, prioritize ‘infiltrators’ over citizens.

February 6, 2026

A view of the lower house of the Indian Parliament, Lok Sabha, chamber. (Digital Sansad Media Gallery)

Chaos in India’s Parliament as 8 opposition members suspended

Eight opposition lawmakers were suspended after protests erupted in India’s Parliament when opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was blocked from addressing claims by a former army chief about Chinese border tensions.

February 4, 2026

Indian mob lynching of Muslim man. (Social activists staging protest against mob lynching, in Bhopal on July 07, 2017.)

Mob lynching exposes India’s crisis amid denial of anti-Muslim violence

Two men arrested in the Indian state of Jharkhand for mob lynching of Pappu Ansari, amid conflicting claims of theft and religious hate crime.

January 14, 2026

Modi wants to please me: Trump

Says Modi knew it was "very important to make me happy."

January 5, 2026

How major attacks in India have shaped the national-security narrative under PM Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has leveraged past security incidents in India to portray himself as a strong leader domestically.

November 12, 2025

Indian digital system to register people's castes in politically-sensitive census

The upcoming census will be the country's first since 2011 and will, for the first time since independence, register people's castes -- a politically sensitive exercise last undertaken in 1931 under British rule.

November 7, 2025

Taj Mahal: Hindu nationalist revisionism reshapes India’s monuments and memory

India’s ruling BJP have refined a strategy of cultural revision: challenge monument origins, recast Mughal history as occupation, demolish mosques and build temples in their place, and enlist Bollywood as a mass-scale amplifier.

November 2, 2025