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Why India’s Opposition Can’t Get It Together
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has never had the support of most voters. But his rivals are too fractured and dysfunctional to capitalize on that.
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Modi’s Power Keeps Growing, and India Looks Sure to Give Him More
Few doubt the popular prime minister will win a third term in voting that starts Friday. His strong hand is just what many Indians seem to want.
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Friday Briefing: India’s Election Begins
Also, new Western sanctions on Iran, and China’s sinking cities.
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Modi’s Temple of Lies
The sleepy pilgrimage city of Ayodhya in northern India was once home to a grand 16th-century mosque, until it was illegally demolished by a howling mob of Hindu militants in 1992. The site has since been reinvented as the centerpiece of the Hindu ...
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China Had a ‘Special Place’ in Modi’s Heart. Now It’s a Thorn in His Side.
As Narendra Modi seeks a third term as prime minister, India’s rupture with China looms over a pillar of his campaign: making his country a major power.
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New Delhi Police Raid Homes and Offices of Journalists
The sweep caught up contributors to a left-leaning news website, according to other news outlets and those raided. A Times investigation had linked the site to a pro-China network.
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Leader of Indian Party Opposing Modi Is Sentenced in Defamation Case
Rahul Gandhi, who leads the main opposition party, received a two-year sentence after making a comment in 2019 criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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The World’s Biggest Democracy Is Jettisoning Freedom and Tolerance
When I moved to New Delhi in 2009 to work as a foreign correspondent, there was already a decade’s worth of magazine covers heralding the inevitable, just-around-the-corner but not-quite-yet-here rise of India to the top table of the global order and ...
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