In face of Modi juggernaut, India’s opposition appears increasingly weak
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India election: overseas Indians love Modi. Most can’t vote, but will they still sway the polls?
But the advertising executive is not even able to vote in the polls – he is a British citizen of Indian origin who has long been an admirer of Modi’s policies. There is a sense of pride among many ethnic Indians overseas like Tiwari in Modi’s vision, and a feeling that his Bharatiya Janata Party-led government is charting the right path for the country’s future.
UAW clinches watershed union victory at Volkswagen Tennessee factory
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) -- Workers at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant have voted to join the United Auto Workers, in a seismic victory for the union as it drives beyond its Detroit base into the U.S. South and West.
Will India’s election be free and fair?
Opponents and rights groups allege repression has increased in recent years.
Time Is Running Out for Rahul Gandhi’s Vision for India
Rahul Gandhi stood in a red Jeep, amid a churning crowd in Varanasi, trying to unseat the Indian government with a microphone in his hand. “The mic isn’t good,” he said. “Please quiet down and listen.” It was the morning of Feb. 17 — Day 35 of a journey that began in the hills of Manipur, in India’s northeast, and would end by the ocean in Mumbai, in mid-March. In total, Gandhi would cover 15 states and 4,100 miles, traveling across a country that once voted for his party, the Indian National Congress, almost by reflex. No longer, though. For a decade, the Congress Party has been so deep in the political wilderness, occupying fewer than a tenth of the seats in Parliament, that even its well-wishers wonder if Gandhi is merely the custodian of its end.
Singapore’s first social media PM: can Lawrence Wong win Gen Z votes or will he become ‘just a meme’?
If Wong hopes to win over youth in the coming general election, which could happen as early as this year, he needs to rule on social media, according to analysts.
Who is Singapore’s Lawrence Wong? How an underdog with no grand political ambitions became the next prime minister
“I had not yet found my calling in public service,” Wong, who was then at the Ministry of Finance at the turn of the millennium, said in a media interview.