The prime minister’s comments during his Independence Day address comes in the context of several divisive rows in the preceding months over issues that have raised communal temperatures

“How long do we have to seek global certificates? We need to set our own standards. We don’t need to look like others,” Modi said.

India has called for efforts to de-escalate tensions and maintain peace and stability in the region

More than sixty years after his death, Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s position on Kashmir has been vindicated and his critique of the Nehruvian order is redefining the idea of Indian nationhood

BJP banks on PM Narendra Modi turning Lok Sabha elections into presidential contests

The sudden fall of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra would have worked to convince Nitish Kumar that RCP Singh might well be the Trojan horse of Bihar

The murder of a BJP youth leader in coastal Karnataka, the birthplace of Indian Mujahideen founder Yasin Bhatkal, poses a challenge for the state government

BS Bommai, Chief Minister of Karnataka, in conversation with Rajeev Deshpande

Unlike the sensational night-time helicopter raid that ended Osama bin Laden’s career in Pakistan’s Abbottabad, Ayman al-Zawahiri met a rather tame end

A Congress in disarray has sharpened rivalries among Opposition parties while Modi is already in election mode

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