In the 1950s, India’s States Reorganisation Commission, established by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, suggested that administration would be easier if the country could be divided into states ...

How do you count to 1.45bn? Start with 3.5m. That is the number of people who will knock on doors, compile spreadsheets and crunch data to conduct a new census in India, the world’s most populous ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi installs the Sengol at the new parliament building in New Delhi, May 28, 2023. Credit: Prime Minister Office of India On May 28, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

1989 School of Arts and Sciences graduate Eswaran Sridharan, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India in New Delhi, led a seminar at CASI’s Penn campus counterpart this week discussing ...

In 2025, women reshaped Indian politics as record female voter turnout in Delhi and Bihar helped the BJP-led NDA win both ...

A stampede at a rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu killed at least 36 people and injured 40 others, the state’s health minister said late Saturday. Ma ...

A 42-year-old MBA from Stanford is becoming the go-to person for multinationals looking to invest in India, leveraging his party's proximity to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to dismantle the country's ...

As President Donald Trump moves to further isolate Russia over its ongoing war in Ukraine, the Kremlin's trade relationships with China and India could soon come under scrutiny. Trump has previously ...

India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar shakes hands with Taliban Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, October 10, 2025. Credit: X/Dr S ...

The Bitcoin Policy Institute of India has announced its launch on India’s Independence Day to highlight the notion that true freedom comes with the type of financial and economic sovereignty that ...