A leading right-wing Hindu nationalist has sparked anger by calling for the state of Jammu and Kashmir to lose its autonomy and be integrated into the rest of India.
Critics say Mohan Bhagwat, leader of the Rashtriya Swayamasevak Sangh (RSS), is behind a sectarian drive to make India a Hindu-only country.
The RSS is the ideological driving force behind PrimeRead more
It was not after all as smooth an operation for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah to pick the new Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister as it was in other states like Maharashtra, Haryana, Assam, Goa and Uttarakhand. There were many in the race, some of them the favourites of the two most powerful men in the country.Read more
Amid tension after clashes between students over an invitation to Jawahalal Nehru University’s (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid to address a seminar, classes remained suspended at Delhi University’s (DU) Ramjas College on Thursday with police registering a rioting case against those involved in violence.
“This is the national capital, we will not tolerate this. An inquiry has been set upRead more
For the first time in history, an Indian Prime Minister is being ridiculed across the world for his “incompetent” decision of demonetisation, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday.
Addressing a party convention here, Gandhi also charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with weakening the country’s constitutional institutions.
Dubbing the demonetisation move Modi’s “personal decision”,Read more