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Modi’s party wins Indian election but with smaller majority
India’s opposition Congress party called the opposition alliance’s strong showing in the polls a “win for democracy”.
- by YP Rajesh and Shilpa Jamkhandikar
Opinion & Perspectives
Modi’s third win a chance to restore India as a leading democracy
India’s Narendra Modi has won a third term but for the first time he’ll have to share power with coalition partners.
The Herald's View
Editorial
Modi, who casts himself as ‘sent by God’, loses his aura of invincibility
The once-dominant opposition has made electoral gains on the government over issues like unemployment, social justice and Modi’s ties to India’s billionaires.
Mujib Mashal and Alex Travelli
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Peter Hartcher
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Hunter Biden’s own memoir played back to narrate his spiral into addiction
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UK politics
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- by George Brandis
She’s 98 and walked through a battlefield in slippers to escape Russian attacks
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Asia
Editorial
Narendra Modi
Modi’s third win a chance to restore India as a leading democracy
India’s Narendra Modi has won a third term but for the first time he’ll have to share power with coalition partners.
- The Herald's View
Updated
World elections
Modi’s party wins Indian election but with smaller majority
India’s opposition Congress party called the opposition alliance’s strong showing in the polls a “win for democracy”.
- by YP Rajesh and Shilpa Jamkhandikar
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World elections
Modi, who casts himself as ‘sent by God’, loses his aura of invincibility
- by Mujib Mashal and Alex Travelli
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China relations
He’s warned us before on the China threat. Can we afford to ignore him again?
- by Peter Hartcher
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