Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, center in a blue mask, and other lawmakers participate in a protest in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) NEW DELHI (AP) — The Aug. 5 ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media in New Delhi on Jan. 31. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) Not long ago, a 12th-grade political science textbook in India informed students about the ...

Debasish Roy Chowdhury is a Hong Kong-based Indian journalist and a co-author of “To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood last month atop India ...

Rahul also made clear to specific questions in his public interactions with reporters, think tank experts, and Indian Americans that the Congress party’s fight for democracy in India is internal ...

Voting has begun in India's national election, the world's biggest exercise in democracy, but there's concern that democratic values are being eroded. Latest U.S.

NEW DELHI: During the Joe Biden administration, the United States committed over $20 million to promote democratic ...

India’s political system has shifted from limited democracy to party democracy and finally to plebiscitary democracy, a trend that reached its epitome with Modi.

India’s ranking in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Democracy Index had fallen sharply between 2016 and 2020, though it has improved marginally since then: up to 41 (tied with Poland ...

What the death of a jailed priest says about India's democracy Indian police accused Stan Swamy of terrorism. His supporters say he was framed and evidence planted on his computer.

Is there a sense that India’s democracy, since Modi didn’t do a power grab, has a bit of hope? TUDOR Absolutely there is. I think there’s a big sense in India that something has changed.

At 75, India’s democracy is under pressure like never before Since its independence in 1947, India has transformed from a poverty-stricken nation into one of the world's fastest-growing economies ...