Narendra Modi

Dua Lipa to star in pre-final show

The ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 finale between India and Australia on Sunday will feature performances by Dua Lipa and an aerial show by the Indian Air Force.
18 November 2023, 07:08 AM

Modi confirms 2036 Olympics bid

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed Saturday that his country would bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympics and become just the fourth Asian nation to stage the Games.
14 October 2023, 16:03 PM

India ready to raise curtain on World Cup

The epic tournament features 10 nations playing 48 matches over 46 days at 10 different venues
2 October 2023, 03:31 AM

Will work together for regional stability

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have agreed that Dhaka and New Delhi will work together to ensure political and economic stability in the two countries as well as the region.
8 September 2023, 18:00 PM

Does India need a Uniform Civil Code?

In a way, the BJP’s campaign on the UCC has been in the works for several months now
18 July 2023, 12:00 PM

Modi lauds first shipment of methanol consignment to Bangladesh

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded the first methanol consignment to Bangladesh from Assam saying it is an effort towards establishing the northeastern state as a major exporter of petrochemicals
3 July 2023, 17:00 PM

Understanding Biden’s big bet on India

The unprecedented lovefest between India and the United States has been striking and, frankly, puzzling.
3 July 2023, 13:00 PM

‘Bangladesh will not feature in Modi-Biden meeting’

Maj Gen (retd) ANM Muniruzzaman, president of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS), talks about the agenda of the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden with Golam Mortoza of The Daily Star.
21 June 2023, 16:00 PM

The Modi Decade

Dissent is framed as disloyalty, with criticism of government policies labeled “anti-national.”
13 June 2023, 01:00 AM

Is BJP's policy of exclusion and segregation backfiring?

PM Modi's decision to inaugurate the new parliament building himself has garnered scrutiny.
28 May 2023, 13:00 PM

Modi will only harm Pakistan, says Afridi

Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi launched a scathing attack on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his strict policies and said that ever since the Indian PM took office, nothing positive has come out for Pakistan, and neither can anything be expected in the future from the head of the Indian government.
5 May 2023, 11:42 AM

India’s democracy in detention

What happens to Gandhi has important implications for India’s future.
11 April 2023, 14:00 PM

Rahul Gandhi’s conviction: Another dent in India’s declining democracy

The same system that drags criminal cases for years starts to work on speed when power wants it to.
31 March 2023, 14:00 PM

Delhi police arrests 6 over anti-Modi posters

Following a massive operation on Tuesday, nearly 2,000 posters were taken down by the police from several locations in the country's capital. Most of the posters had the slogan
22 March 2023, 08:57 AM

Ton-up Khawaja steers Australia to 255-4

After a long grind, Khawaja was batting alongside Cameron Green, on 49, at close of play after Australia elected to bat at the world's biggest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad.
9 March 2023, 12:22 PM

India’s Thin-Skinned Leaders

Narendra Modi’s government has long been overly sensitive to world opinion
21 February 2023, 11:26 AM

India's tax officials at BBC offices for second day in a row

They are understood to be making copies of electronic and paper-based financial data of the broadcaster.
15 February 2023, 06:24 AM

Rampal Power Plant: First unit ready to start commercial production

One of the two units of the coal-fired Rampal Power Plant has started supplying electricity to the national grid on a trial basis.
19 December 2022, 08:54 AM

Memorial for fallen Indian soldiers yet to be completed

The government, with an aim to uphold the martyred Indian soldiers' contribution to the cause of Bangladesh's liberation as part of Bangladesh-India allied force, decided to construct a memorial in July 2017.
17 December 2022, 07:19 AM

India's G20 presidency to promote the universal sense of one-ness

India’s G20 agenda will be inclusive, ambitious, action-oriented, and decisive.
30 November 2022, 18:00 PM