"India counted 640 million votes in 1 day. California is still counting votes," wrote Musk on X, while sharing a screenshot of an article on Indian election vote counting.
Returning from a month-long holiday in the US, I was immediately struck by the urgency of the pollution crisis as I landed in Delhi, past midnight this week.
As President-elect Donald Trump completes his Cabinet nominations, still subject to legislative approval after January 2025, the policy intentions of his second term have become relatively clear.
The Mahayuti alliance’s landslide win in the Maharashtra Assembly elections marks a stunning comeback for the BJP and its partners.
The Jharkhand Assembly election results have delivered a resounding message about the enduring power of regional identity and welfare-oriented governance in shaping political outcomes. The JMM-led INDIA Bloc has achieved a decisive victory, securing 55 of the state’s 81 seats.
There are about 1.2 billion Hindus in the world. India, which has a population of 1.4 billion, has 80 per cent of its population Hindu. This means that there are 1.1 billion Hindus in India or 93 per cent of the global Hindu population.
Imagine something as harmless as asking for the protection of a playground. How can that land a parent and her minor child in jail—and without proper grounds and an arrest warrant?
During the 1970s there was propaganda around lathyrism; that the pulse crop contained a neurotoxin that causes paralysis. A fear psychosis compelled farmers not to grow Lathyrus.
When Virat Kohli fails with the bat, India's media, or self-important constituent units of it, phrases its sentences in a way suggestive of a rather egregious lapse in the Great Scheme of Things, like a pregnant man in a maternity ward.
It is cause for alarm and not merely among wildlife enthusiasts that 20 per cent of reptiles across the world are threatened with extinction.
