Polls have opened in the second of the seven-phase Indian elections with 13 states voting for 88 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s Parliament. The first phase of the vote was held on ...

Modi pricks challengers by focusing on hot-button issues such as religious discrimination, affirmative action and taxes.

Communal dimension is creeping into the Church with priests, even bishops, being ‘communally inclined’, says Fr. Paul Thelakkat, former spokesperson of Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.

Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi is contesting from Wayanad constituency in southern Kerala state for a second time after he was defeated in 2019 elections by Smriti Irani, a BJP leader, in the ...

Of state's 20 constituencies, BJP has highest hopes for Thiruvananthapuram, Attingal, Pathanamthitta, Thrissur, and Palakkad, where it secured over 20% vote share in 2019 polls.

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala General Education Minister V Sivankutty has written to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressing concern about the alleged politicisation of Sainik Schools. According ...

In Kerala, the competition is between the UDF and the LDF and the BJP will not open an account here, CPM Politburo member Prakash Karat said. He was speaking at the ‘Meet the Leader’ event organised ...

Though the CPM and the Congress in Kerala have come out against the screening of the controversial movie The Kerala Story, alleging that it has the potential to polarise society along religious lines ...

Indira Gandhi combined authoritarianism with a devotion to family rule; now, Narendra Modi combines authoritarianism with a devotion to Hindu majoritarianism ...

When Mr Modi took office, India’s income per person was only a fifth of China’s (at market exchange rates). It remains the same fraction today. These six books help to chart India’s circuitous ...

“It is affecting their education, their mental health,” he said. Associated Press writers Piyush Nagpal and Subramoney Iyer in Kerala, India, contributed to this report.