On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended, as of December 19, by the Speaker of the lower house, Om Birla. Each of these members belongs to the parties ...

New Delhi — People started casting votes Friday in India in what's set to be the largest general election ever held anywhere in the world, with nearly 1 billion eligible voters. The election will be ...

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Sunday accused the BJP of weakening democracy by forming governments through “vote theft” and weakening the power of the votes of people.

Trip underscores both political symbolism and economic ambition as New Delhi seeks to ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Milan Vaishnav of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the state of democracy in India. The expulsion of a key opposition leader from India's Parliament ...

Under the searing New Delhi sun, more than a dozen of India’s top opposition leaders joined hands in a rare show of unity imploring voters to “save democracy.” Standing before thousands of supporters ...

The greatest electoral show on earth—India’s elections—concluded not long ago, with over 640 million people casting votes over six weeks. More Indians voted than the combined total of eligible voters ...

Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Sunday said that in a democracy, every institution has its limits and that the health of democratic functioning depends on knowing and respecting those ...

MUMBAI, India — India's Parliament voted on a crime bill and other legislation on Wednesday, even though dozens of opposition legislators were not present. It was the latest in a week of turmoil in ...

In the run-up to hosting the G-20 summit this year, India has begun marketing itself as the “mother of democracies.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi began to emphasize this idea last year, both ...

MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal criticised Pakistan’s political turmoil, saying “democracy and Pakistan don’t go together,” ...

India’s democracy is in danger. There is no sound moral, political or economic case for President Biden and other democratic leaders to pretend this isn’t happening. Yet the red carpets keep being ...