Narendra Modi

India’s leader has to mix a muscular foreign policy with a softer touch.

And what that means for Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party

The Indian prime minister has the upper hand at home, and he may have a willing partner across the border.

No longer just a balancer, the prime minister wants to make India a major power in its own right. And his cabinet pick shows he’s serious about doing so.

But Modi’s new power might just make critical reforms possible.

Poor economic performance should have hurt the prime minister at the polls. Instead, appeals to nationalism won him the vote.

The prime minister returns to power, but after an ugly 2019 election season, the very nature of India’s democracy could be changing.

India’s Narendra Modi appears set for second term, Austria’s ruling coalition collapses ahead of the EU elections, and what to watch in the world this week.

Sunday's exit polls suggest the prime minister will get a second term. But while that may hurt India's liberal traditions, a further slide toward authoritarianism isn't likely.

Decades of work have left the BJP firmly in command of diaspora voters.

India's newly aggressive strategy puts Gulf money and Israeli weapons first.

The Congress Party’s newest campaigner may not actually contest elections, but she will likely narrow a funding gap in a country where winning votes costs serious money.

The Ethiopian prime minister’s opponents fear that he’s an African Erdogan. His rhetoric and policies suggest he’s more of a liberal democrat.

Narendra Modi is building multimillion-dollar monuments while India's poorest citizens die of hunger and preventable diseases.

The rage that animated protests against sexual violence in 2012 has returned, and Indian women are fearlessly speaking out against powerful perpetrators.

His economic reforms have already put the Indian economy on stronger footing, and his welfare schemes have given him the buy-in he needs.

Modi’s soft approach is getting nowhere with a hard-line Washington.

The war against foreign-funded NGOs — from India to Israel — is harming democratic governance, not enhancing it.

What a sting operation reveals about press freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

Asia is ready for India to step up as the United States withdraws.