India’s Parliament passes law that will reserve a third of legislature seats for women from 2029

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Parliament has approved landmark legislation that reserves one-third of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, ending a 27-year impasse over the bill amid a lack of consensus among political...

India's opposition parties team up to challenge Modi's Hindu nationalist party in 2024 elections

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s fractured opposition parties decided Friday to jointly contest the 2024 national elections in their bid to unseat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and prevent his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party from achieving a third straight win. The 26 opposition...

India's opposition leader Rahul Gandhi condemns the Modi government over violence in Manipur

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top opposition leader unleashed a strong condemnation Wednesday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for its failure to control bloodshed in a remote northeastern state that he said has been divided. Rahul Gandhi told Parliament that the army...

India's opposition targets Modi in their no-confidence motion over ethnic violence in Manipur state

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s opposition accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of choosing silence while a northeastern state governed by his party convulsed in ethnic violence as Parliament began debate Tuesday on a no-confidence motion against his government that's certain to be defeated. ...

Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi reinstated to India's Parliament days after top court's order

NEW DELHI (AP) — 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 mocking the prime minister’s surname. His reinduction as a member of Parliament is...

India's top court temporarily halts conviction of opposition leader for mocking Modi's surname

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Friday temporarily halted the criminal defamation conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi for mocking the prime minister’s surname. His party said it would now seek to have Gandhi reinstated as a member of parliament. A fierce critic...

India’s top court stays the conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi for mocking Prime Minister Modi’s surname

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court stays the conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi for mocking Prime Minister Modi’s surname.

An Indian state court won't stay Rahul Gandhi's defamation verdict in a blow to his election hopes

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian state court refused to stay opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for criminal defamation in a ruling Friday that sets back his prospects to contest national elections next year. A fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his main...