Experts say cuts to rural food and jobs programmes risk harming the people who rely on them

The world’s fastest growing e-commerce market once welcomed the US retail giant with open arms, but New Delhi is now investigating the company over allegations of anticompetitive behaviour.

Hundreds of experts in diplomacy and security gathered in New Delhi and if concerns about China had been muted in the past, they were never far from the surface this year.

Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid says the islands back Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy and share India’s ‘security concerns’ about China’s growing presence in the Indian Ocean.

‘The 21st century is a time when we must get rid of any methods in international relations which smack of colonial times,’ Russia’s Sergey Lavrov tells the Raisina Dialogue.

New Delhi could still rethink its decision to walk out on the 15-nation free-trade deal, says Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, but the terms would need to change.

For the country’s holy men, international notoriety is as common an outcome as global fame – but their influence is hard to shake at home, where people are desperate for a purpose or cause.

With at least two major regional elections in 2020, all eyes are on how the BJP will arrest the fallout from the citizenship act and local poll defeats.

The 22nd round of talks between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval was shrouded in secrecy amid a downward slide in bilateral ties.

Indians protesting against New Delhi’s new religion-based citizenship law have been inspired by the tactics employed by protesters on the streets of Hong Kong.

The northeast state of Assam has become the epicentre of anger over a new law that excludes Muslims from neighbouring states from applying for Indian citizenship.

Growth is falling, unemployment is rising, banks are being battered and people are killing themselves over tax. Something’s up in India’s economy, if only Modi would admit it.

Over 200,000 farmers have killed themselves in the past 20 years, despairing of crop losses and debt. Their wives inherit the bills, but often not their land.

In December 1992, a 16th-century mosque was demolished by an armed Hindu mob. More than 2,000 people were killed in the aftermath.

The leaders agreed to set up a mechanism to boost economic ties and tackle India’s trade deficit with China after their second informal summit.

For the past seven decades, Chennai has been home to some 15 ethnic Chinese families, whose forebears fled Wuhan during the civil war.

Indian PM takes Chinese president on personal tour of monuments in coastal town of Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu.

The meeting is aimed at thawing the chill in relations fuelled by China’s support of Pakistan’s opposition to India axing the autonomy of Kashmir.

The Indian and Chinese leaders are expected to meet this weekend for their second informal summit in little more than a year.

New Delhi has played its cards right to ensure global powers do not rock the boat, but analysts warn India cannot expect something for nothing.

Anger is brewing among nationalists who are fanning out across the country to persuade their compatriots to shun products from China.

Defying the odds, a team of teenagers from India’s marginalised communities won the Street Child Cricket World Cup in England.

As the opposition Indian National Congress struggles to revive from a bruising election defeat, Modi’s ruling BJP has started drawing up battle plans to widen its lead in 2024.

Rain or shine, villagers in the wet region of Mokhada constantly face water woes, as its water supply is diverted to industrial areas and other cities – a problem that has worsened as a severe drought grips India.

With Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin displaying increasing bonhomie, the United States will have cause to reflect on its recent trade disputes with ally New Delhi

The Indian prime minister refused to back the Chinese leader’s ambitious global infrastructure vision at a summit last week, but the apparent snub is not getting in the way of amicable ties between Asia’s two biggest economies.

Warming ties will be a win-win for the two Asian powerhouses, but they also signal India’s intent to gain influence over its geopolitical backyard.

Unpopular economic policies don’t seem to have gotten in the way of another landslide victory for the Indian prime minister.

While Modi’s win marks the first time since 1971 an incumbent leader is re-elected with a majority, domestic issues will keep his second term busy with tough times ahead.

Opposition leader concedes defeat hours after prime minister Narendra Modi celebrates early victory, as Election Commission data shows the BJP leading in 302 out of 542 seats in lower house on Thursday night.