Narendra Modi

China has played down India's decision to sign a Logistics Support Agreement (LSA) with the US, saying that the proposed deal is stalled due to distrust between New Delhi and Washington.

Asia is "the world's most dynamic region" but structural reforms are key given its increasing importance to the global economy, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said in New Delhi on March 12.

Several villages in the western Indian state of Gujarat have banned girls and single women from owning mobile phones, saying the devices distract them from their studies. 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi renewed his call on Feb. 13 for firms to invest in India and turn it into a global manufacturing hub, painting the country as a bright spot for investment in an uncertain world economy.

Japan will build India's first bullet train under a sweeping tally of agreements made following talks in New Delhi on Dec. 12, deepening a partnership Prime Minister Narendra Modi said would "shape the course of Asia."

The photograph featuring India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi surveying flood damage to Chennai appears to have been crudely photoshopped by a government website. Evidently doctored, the international media is having a field day

As world leaders gathered in Paris for the United Nations COP21 Climate Conference set to begin on Nov. 30, tens of thousands of people around the world joined one of the biggest global days of climate change activism ever on Nov. 29, to put pressure on world leaders to unite in fighting global warming at the summit in Paris. 

Forbes magazine declared Russian President Vladimir Putin as the most powerful person in the world for the third year in a row.

This magazine revealed this in its seventh annual list, which ranks the "World's Most Powerful People" in 2015.

The murder by a Hindu mob of a Muslim man rumoured to have slaughtered a cow has thrown a spotlight on the hardline, polarising agenda of some followers of Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi, undermining his promise of development for all. 

India?s foreign ministry summoned Saudi Arabia?s ambassador over allegations one of the Middle East country?s officials repeatedly raped two Nepali maids, sparking a diplomatic row ahead of a planned state visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.