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A new mural on display in India’s new $110 million Parliament has become an unlikely target of ire among its South Asian neighbors, with Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh seeking an explanation ...
Women make up over 48% of India’s more than 1.4 billion people but have 15.1% representation in Parliament, compared with the international average of 24%, Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram ...
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s new parliament building in New Delhi on Sunday, part of a controversial $2.4 billion revamp of the capital’s historic center.
Why is there backlash to India’s new parliament building? Construction of the new, four-story parliament building began in January 2021 as part of the Central Vista project.
NEW DELHI, Sept 20 (Reuters) - India's parliament on Wednesday approved a landmark bill to reserve a third of its seats in the lower house and state assemblies for women to boost female ...
In India’s state legislatures, women hold about 10 percent of the seats. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Prime Minister Modi said the government wants more women to join the country’s ...
Lawmakers in India's upper house of Parliament on Thursday gave final consent to a bill to reserve 33% seats in the lower house and state assemblies for women a day after the landmark legislation ...
India's New Parliament Is Symbol of Modi's Nationalist Vision. Critics contend that minority groups are being left out of Modi’s plan to remake central Delhi and his articulation of the new India.
India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi speaks during a meeting of his party workers in Ahmedabad, India, on Sept. 5, 2022. Gandhi has lost his parliamentary seat after he was ...
NEW DELHI — India's Parliament on Monday reinstated top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi as a lawmaker three days after the country's top court halted his criminal defamation conviction for ...