Political allies swathed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a victory garland on Tuesday, seeking to project confidence he would win a second straight term in a general election, but the opposition Congress party dismissed predictions it would lose.

An Indian company had stored the data of 49 million Instagram users in an unguarded online database.

“Five minutes. Do nothing. Let things happen.” This is what Bheru Lal believes Narendra Modi said after a train was burnt down in Godhra in 2002, allowing Muslims to be killed under his watch as chief minister. The 26-year-old Bhil Adivasi, who drives a taxi in Udaipur, Rajasthan, heard this story in 2014. It pleased him enough to make him vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party that year. In April, he said he was voting for the party again. We will soon know how many Indians made the same choice – not all for the same reason as Bheru Lal, though his anti-Muslim views seem to have chillingly wide currency in the country. Majoritarianism surfaced in innumerable conversations I had with voters in...

Eleven people, including a lawmaker and four of his family, were killed in an ambush by tribal separatists in the eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, a senior police official said on Tuesday.

Theiyvanai started working as a child in India. Now, she wants politicians to guarantee fair wages.

Officials in north-east India guided an elephant calf to safety, after it became separated from its mother.

Narendra Modi has been trying to connect with voters in Tamil Nadu. But is it working?

An Indian company had stored the data of 49 million Instagram users in an unguarded online database.

India's opposition parties say officials need to maintain the integrity of electoral process.

An Indian company had stored the data of 49 million Instagram users in an unguarded online database.