Tag: Indian politics
Modi Gets Real on the Economy: Opinion
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- India’s economic numbers have for some time looked better than the facts warranted, feeding an overconfidence in New Delhi about the country’s...
Arun Jaitley, India’s Former Finance Minister, Dies at 66
(Bloomberg) -- Arun Jaitley, India’s former finance minister who gave the nation its biggest tax reform, has died. He was 66. Jaitley died at...
Former Indian Union Minister Arun Jaitley dead at 66
Arun Jaitley, a former finance minister in the Indian government and a veteran Bharatiya Janata Party member, passed away today at India’s All India...
India Is Looking to Create Its Own Davos for Bigger Global Role
(Bloomberg) -- India is contemplating organizing an annual global investors’ meet in the country, akin to the World Economic Forum in the alpine resort of Davos, to...
Could India Become a One-Party State?
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In most democracies, a politician who has just led his or her party to a crushing defeat steps aside. In the world’s...
India Is Counting on Reality TV to Galvanize its Startup Scene
(Bloomberg) -- India’s government is keen to sustain the hyper-growth of its tech scene, and it thinks reality TV may be the answer.
Narendra Modi’s administration...
India elections 2019 – Lok Sabha results updates
The Hindu nationalist party is leading a victory for over 330 of the 542 seats.
Counting of votes in under way in India after its general elections...
India’s Modi-led govt expected to retain power, say exit polls
With voting in India – the world’s largest democracy - ending on Sunday (May 19), the spotlight has shifted to exit polls. Most of...
Future of Democracy is Literally in India’s Hands
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- “On or about December 1910, human character changed,” the English novelist Virginia Woolf once wrote. It’s no exaggeration to say that...
What’s Modi’s Secret? The Same as Kylie Jenner’s
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- On the face of things, Narendra Modi has failed variously and spectacularly as India’s prime minister. After pledging to create millions of...