Indien will Pakistan „keinen einzigen Tropfen Wasser“ mehr überlassen. Das klingt krass. Der Streit um den Indus und seine Nebenflüsse heizt sich unter den Atommächten bedrohlich auf.

Die Sängerin will ihre Stimme nicht „abscheulichem Nonsens“ leihen. Der einzige Überlebende des Air-India-Flugs 171 zieht ein Jahr nach dem Absturz eine bittere Bilanz. Und Rumer Willis erreicht einen Etappensieg im Sorgerechtsstreit.

Narendra Modi ist nun länger Premier als Jawaharlal Nehru, der erste Regierungschef des unabhängigen Indien. Seine Anhänger feiern den Rekord als Sieg des Hinduismus über die Idee eines weltlichen Staates.

Cockroach Janta party began as online joke but is growing into one of the most unexpected challenges to country’s rightwing government

The call out to the youth of India was simple: “Get ready to swarm the streets of Delhi with peaceful and loving dissent.” They came in their thousands.

The weekend marked the first public protest of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP), a movement that began as an online joke, but which has swiftly grown into one of the most unexpected challenges to the indomitable power of the country’s rightwing Narendra Modi government – driven by millions of discontented and disillusioned young people.

The Delhi Gymkhana Club has attracted the attention of Narendra Modi’s government. It is now suddenly under threat

Narendra Modi’s government has ordered one of India’s most exclusive private clubs, the Delhi Gymkhana Club, to vacate its sprawling premises – the latest move against institutions seen as symbols of Delhi’s old world establishment.

The club has long been synonymous with India’s upper echelons, although before Independence in 1947 it was largely a preserve of the British colonial elite, admitting only a select few Indians.

In Indien wehren sich Teile der Gen Z mit einer Kakerlaken-Satire-Partei gegen Perspektivlosigkeit und den Stil der nationalistischen Regierung. Das weckt Erinnerungen an die Umstürze in Bangladesch und Nepal. Zu Recht?

Heidi Klum spricht über ihre Wechseljahre. Narendra Modi schenkt Giorgia Meloni Toffees. Und Kylie Minogue enthüllt, dass sie 2021 eine zweite Brustkrebsdiagnose erhalten hat.

Narendra Modi’s austerity appeals reveal how war, energy insecurity and dollar pressures expose the fragility of globalisation

The Indian prime minister’s call for sacrifice last week marks a fundamental shift. He urged the country’s 1.4 billion people to consume less fuel and fertiliser, buy less gold and curb foreign travel as global energy prices surge because of the war in Iran. The message, redolent of the Covid-era restrictions, suggests something larger: a retreat from neoliberal globalisation in Asia and the return of strategic economic management. The Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi waited for key regional elections to finish before pressing for the austerity measures. He was following other Asian states such as the Philippines, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, which have made similar requests and even demands of their citizens since March.

Mr Modi made an explicit economic argument: reduce energy imports because India must conserve its foreign exchange. About 90% of India’s oil and gas needs come from abroad. When prices spike, the country faces a higher import bill in dollars, inflation and pressure for higher subsidies. Despite India’s recent economic success, it has not built sufficient productive, export or homegrown green-power capacity to reduce its vulnerability. To prevent the rupee crashing in value, India’s central bank reportedly burned through more than $40bn in reserves.

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Premierminister Narendra Modi reist nach Europa. Sein Ziel: mehr Energiesicherheit.

Die Partei BJP von Premierminister Modi siegt in Westbengalen klar und freut sich über den Ausgang von vier weiteren Regionalwahlen. Haben die politischen Gegner noch etwas entgegenzusetzen?

Result in key Indian state is set to have significant implications for the country’s political landscape

Narendra Modi’s party has won a resounding election victory in West Bengal, a state which had been a rare opposition stronghold, expanding his unrivalled consolidation of power across the country.

It is the first time that the Indian prime minister’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has won assembly elections in West Bengal, a large and politically significant state in eastern India.

Lawrence Bishnoi has been in high-security custody for more than a decade. During that time, he has been linked to multiple high-profile killings, both in India and as far afield as Canada. What explains his seemingly undimmed power?

The border that separates India from Pakistan is lined with 50,000 towering poles that hold 150,000 floodlights, which at night create a glare that is visible from outer space. Passing through the towns on the Indian side of the border, it can be difficult to tell, even in daylight, where one ends and the other begins. Curving along the rolling fields of wheat are nameless dirt roads where men sit on rope benches, whiling away their afternoons, staring as you pass by.

Dutarawali, right by the highway, is slightly different: here, the houses are big, with spacious courtyards. One of the houses – three storeys, painted white with red accents – has a 7ft boundary wall topped with barbed wire and four CCTV cameras overlooking the unpaved street. The symbol of Om is curled on its brown iron door, which has no nameplate. It is the house of Lawrence Bishnoi, who is today, at the age of 33, India’s most notorious gangster.

Indien ist die größte Demokratie der Welt, doch das Beispiel Westbengalen zeigt, wie undemokratisch es in manchen Bundesstaaten zugeht. Ein Besuch.

Opposition accuses Narendra Modi government of using quotas as cover for redrawing electoral map

The Indian government has failed to pass a bill to increase female representation in parliament after being accused of using the plan as a guise to redraw the country’s electoral map.

It was the first time in 12 years in power that a constitutional amendment proposed by Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) government was not passed by parliament.

Defence analyst says torpedo strike is a ‘humiliation’ for Modi’s government that disregarded a US defence partner

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The distress call came in to Sri Lanka’s maritime rescue coordination centre just after 5am. The ship in trouble, they determined, was well within Sri Lanka’s obligation for rescue, being just over 19 nautical miles off the coast of the southern city of Galle.

The navy swiftly mobilised and, by 6am, the first search and rescue boat was on its way, another soon close behind. It was hard to see through the thick morning mist but officers onboard kept their eyes peeled for a ship in the distance.

Indiens Premier Narendra Modi hat ein auffallend gutes Verhältnis zu seinem israelischen Kollegen Netanjahu – trotz dessen aggressiven Vorgehens in Iran und Gaza. Das verrät viel über Modis Politikstil.

Canadian prime minister and Indian prime minister mostly discussed trade during Carney’s visit to India

Mark Carney is under mounting pressure to address whether he believes Indian interference in Canada remains a threat after he met with Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, whose government is accused of orchestrating the killing a Canadian citizen.

“We are one family,” the Canadian prime minister said from New Delhi on Monday, capping a four-day trade-focused trip meant to reset relations with the world’s most populous nation.

Canada’s prime minister and Indian prime minister will meet Monday in visit that marks diplomatic shift

It’s not often that the leaders of two countries which have traded accusations of murder, extortion and terrorism meet only months later on friendly terms.

But amid what he had described as a “rupture in the world order”, Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, will on Monday meet Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, to repair strained ties between their nations.