SRINAGAR: Suvaid Yaseen, a scholar from Kashmir has been awarded the prestigious Joukowsky Prize for his dissertation at the Brown University in Rhode Islands. The dissertation is titled Islamic Intersections: Religion and Politics in Kashmir in the Long Twentieth-Century.
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s victory in his home state Gujarat has shown a strong performance, but experts said on Friday that the win was not necessarily a trendsetter for the national vote that is less than two years away. In its best-ever performance in the western state of around 60 million people, Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party on
The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is known for two things: Its size with 230 million citizens, the population is larger than Brazil’s; and its poverty as the second-poorest state, its annual income is about half the national average.
However, since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, it has also made global headlines for a darker superlative: crimes targeted against Muslims. Those only worsened when, three years later, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stormed to power in Uttar Pradesh, and with it, Yogi Adityanath a saffron-robed Hindu monk-turned-chief minister with his own private
The repeal of the contentious agriculture laws represented a rare retreat for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with some saying his "strongman" image has taken a hit because of it.