Tag: Narendra Damodardas Modi
BJP accuses Sonia Gandhi of plotting to destabilize Gujarat state in 2002
In India, the ruling BJP party is targeting Sonia Gandhi, the president of Congress, the main opposition party. She is accused of having, along with others, plotted to destabilize the…
BJP attempts to overthrow opposition in strategic Maharashtra state
In India, the political world has been closely following the tribulations of the rebel MPs of the Shiv Sena party for a week. On their decisions depends the fate of…
Violent protests across the country after comments made about Muhammad
Demonstrations in many cities across India took place on Friday June 10 and violent clashes with law enforcement led to hundreds of arrests and two people being killed. The dismissal…
In India, Hindus demand the return of certain Muslim buildings
In India, Hindus are engaged in a coordinated effort to take control of several mosques and Muslim buildings, claiming that they were built on Hindu religious structures centuries ago. They…
“We are witnessing in India a trivialization of anti-Muslim violence”
With 195 million Muslims living on its soil, India is one of the countries with the highest number of Muslims in the world. Indian Muslims today constitute a beleaguered minority,…
Supreme Court suspends colonial law prosecuting acts of sedition
In India, the Supreme Court suspended, on Wednesday May 11, all prosecutions for an act known as ” sedition ”, a colonial-era law defined by section 124 A of the…
Singapore censors Indian film stigmatizing Kashmiri Muslims
This is a movie Singaporeans won’t see: Kashmir Files, Indian drama about the flight of members of the Hindu elite from Kashmir. It has been massively promoted by the government…
open letter asks Modi to respond to attacks on Muslims
In India, more than 100 former senior officials have just written an open letter to the Prime Minister. They ask him to react to put an end to the growing…
Modi’s first official visit to Kashmir since 2019 lockdown
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Sunday April 24 in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, his first trip to this region since the forced abrogation of the…
In New Delhi, Ursula von der Leyen wants to distance India from Russia and bring it closer to the EU
India now buys Russian oil in rupees and rubles, placing it among the privileged candidates for the export of high-tech Russian arms. The country led by Narendra Modi is hardly…