The preamble of India's Constitution defines it as a socialist and secular republic, but the RSS — a nationalist group close to Narendra Modi's BJP — argues those concepts are alien to the ...

Dattatray Hosabale’s recent remark is part of RSS’s calculated move to test the waters, to march further in its agenda of ...

Amid a renewed debate over removing the word ‘secular’ from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution, a look at the term ...

Rightwing political parties and politicians in India have repeatedly demanded, unsuccessfully, to remove the words “secular” ...

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said 'there is no need for socialism in India', adding 'secularism is not the core of our culture'.

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Chouhan argued that secularism does not originate from India's cultural foundations but was instead incorporated into the Constitution during the Emergency period ...

Ancient India certainly had democratic and republican states, but so did ancient Greece, Rome, and a host of other places. David Stasavage, dean for the social sciences at New York University ...

India and Pakistan came precariously close to nuclear war during their previous standoff in 2019. At that time, a late intervention by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo helped defuse tensions.

Critics call the temple a monument to India's eroding secularism. World. India's Modi inaugurates a long-promised but controversial Hindu temple in Ayodhya. January 22, 2024 1:27 PM ET. By .