Indian Prime Minister
18 Jun 2020
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi salutes the 20 Indian soldiers who were killed in clashes with Chinese troops on the Asian giants' border.
26 Dec 2019
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has refused to give in to the demands of tens of thousands of protesters opposing a controversial citizenship law. The country's top court refused to stall the law's implementation.
20 Oct 2019
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in bullish form on the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth, saying open defecation was a thing of the past in India. Experts are not so certain, though.
20 Oct 2019
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday declared the country of 1.3 billion people free of open defecation. But despite huge progress, experts have expressed scepticism about the claim, saying millions still lack access to a toilet, and that because of old habits many of the new facilities are not being used.
26 Sep 2019
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York about the nation's "historic" decision to cut corporate tax to increase investment in the South Asian nation.
10 Dec 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity is in doubt as exit polls for elections that ended Friday in five states showed inconclusive projections before the federal vote next year.
27 Jun 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House, where he said the pair were "world leaders in social media" and that the future of their partnership "has never looked brighter."
26 Jun 2017
Indian Prime Minister Modi meets President Trump on Monday in a White House visit that will allow the leaders to build personal rapport but is less certain to produce significant progress on issues such as immigration.
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India and Pakistan traditionally have hostile relations, but there is hope on one front, at least. In order to enable the Sikhs from India to make a pilgrimage to one of their holiest shrines, a "peace corridor" has been opened between the two countries.
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The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published a landmark report on climate change. Prepared by hundreds of world's top scientists, it lays out the impact of global warming so far, as well as the tools available to prevent climate catastrophe. The report says today's record heat will be ordinary in a generation's time. Meanwhile, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has denounced a "betrayal" by world leaders for failing to act on climate change. FRANCE 24's Science Editor Shirli Sitbon gives us her analysis.
