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India braced for heatwaves as nearly 1bn head for marathon summer elections
...Researchers have reported that early warning and preparedness systems have only recently been made a matter of policy at the city government level....
April 20, 2024
Q&AFT subscriber event
India at the ballot box: what business expects
...India is touted as an alternative to China, but its inward FDI falls short of Modi’s aim to “Make in India” and transform the country into a premier manufacturing nation....
April 8, 2024
FT Live
Energy Transition Summit India
Delivering clean energy to capitalise on green opportunities
Tuesday, 8 OctoberNew Delhi, Delhi, India
Indian election
India election opens as Narendra Modi seeks third term in power
...“dynastic politics”....
April 19, 2024
Maldives
Pro-China Maldives president’s party sweeps parliamentary vote
...Balancing its relationship with the two big countries in its neighbourhood has been a long-running theme in Maldives politics....
April 22, 2024
Global InsightJohn Reed
Who gains from India’s endless election?
...Does India really need all that time to vote?...
March 26, 2024
ReviewIndian politics & policy
Five books to understand India today
...India After Gandhi (2007) by Ramachandra Guha Guha’s magisterial work is the book to read about India’s history since independence....
April 18, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
News in-depthIndian election
Modi strives for election breakthrough in India’s wealthy south
...For all his dominance of Indian politics over the past decade, there is one part of India that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has so far been unable to crack: the country’s prosperous south....
April 11, 2024
War in Ukraine
Ukraine urges India to rethink ‘Soviet legacy’ of Russia ties
...The Ukrainians’ push for a potential rebalancing of ties between New Delhi and Moscow are unlikely to gain purchase in a country that prides itself its independent foreign policy and has a decades-old close...
March 29, 2024
News in-depthIndian politics & policy
India halts farmers’ march with smoke bombs and drones
...It was a highly unusual policy retreat for a politically dominant leader....
February 29, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The ‘mother of democracy’ is not in good shape
...The BJP’s muscular Hindu nationalism has eroded India’s tradition of secular democracy....
April 2, 2024
Indian election
Businesses bank on Modi election win to ease India’s bottlenecks
...by India’s 28 states, which Modi’s government has pushed to enact business-friendly policies....
April 15, 2024
UK trade
UK-India trade deal talks put on ice until end of spring
...Talks on a UK-India trade deal, originally scheduled to conclude before Diwali in October 2022, have been put on ice until after India’s general election later this spring following the failed final efforts...
March 15, 2024
Indian election
India fires starting gun for election campaigning in world’s largest democracy
...In response to a reporter’s question about the integrity of India’s electronic voting machines, India’s top election official said: “EVMs are 100 per cent safe.”...
March 16, 2024
Indian election
India’s ‘Lottery King’ emerges as crucial political donor
...Megha has also sought government approval for a $1bn project to produce electric vehicles in India’s Telangana state with China’s BYD, but the project failed to secure approval because of India’s strict...
March 15, 2024
The Big Read
Is India’s BJP the world’s most ruthlessly efficient political party?
...Since Modi first won power a decade ago, the BJP has dominated Indian politics....
April 17, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Indian politics & policy
India implements ‘discriminatory’ citizenship law
...Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, a writer and expert on Hindu nationalist politics, said Monday’s announcement on the citizenship law was “aimed at showing that all Hindu-first policies are being implemented”....
March 11, 2024
Indian election
India’s Rahul Gandhi bets on 6,700km trek to stop Modi’s election juggernaut
...Gandhi embarked in January on his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (Unite India for Justice March), starting in the conflict-torn eastern state of Manipur and due to finish in mid-March in western Mumbai....
March 8, 2024
Ruchir Sharma
How Indian democracy developed east Asian characteristics
...They say that in India there is still “freedom of speech but not freedom after speech”....
April 8, 2024
The Big Read
India’s divisive temple ‘reclamation’ movement
...The mosque was torn down by religious zealots in 1992, in what is now seen as a defining moment for the BJP’s Hindu nationalist politics....
March 18, 2024
FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
Big business bets on Modi
...Netflix profits surged during the first quarter, global markets had a rocky week due to worries over US inflation, and India’s prime minister is getting a big boost from the business class in his re-election...
April 19, 2024
Indian election
India’s Supreme Court strikes down fundraising scheme in blow to Modi
...It ordered the State Bank of India, which oversees the scheme, not to issue any more electoral bonds, effective immediately....
February 15, 2024
Free LunchMartin Sandbu
The screws are turning on Russia’s state assets Premium content
...It is the stated policy of G7 countries, and the EU with them, to keep Russia’s state assets blocked until it has fully compensated Ukraine. In fact, Repo makes this the law in the US....
April 25, 2024
News in-depthIndian election
India opposition alliance fractures as support for Narendra Modi soars
...But veteran observers of Indian politics said that weaponising the legal system by the party in power was a recurring theme....
February 14, 2024
News in-depthIndian politics & policy
‘Curly Tales’ and ‘BeerBiceps’: Narendra Modi’s BJP taps influencers ahead of India election
...If content is found to violate these policies, we take appropriate action, which can include removing content”....
February 26, 2024
War in Ukraine
India seeks return of citizens from Russian front line in Ukraine
...India is working to bring back about 20 of its citizens who ended up on the Russian side of the front line in Ukraine after their families said they were lured there under false pretences....
March 5, 2024

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