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Members of Aam Admi Party, or Common Man's Party, shout slogans during a protest against the arrest of their party leader Arvind Kejriwal, in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 22, 2024. Supporters of an anti-corruption crusader and one of India's most consequential politicians of the last decade in India held protests Friday against his arrest, which opposition parties say is part of a crackdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government before national elections. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

A Modi rival is arrested. Now, supporters of the opposition leader are protesting in India’s capital

Supporters of an anti-corruption crusader and one of India’s most consequential politicians of the past decade are protesting against his arrest.

People walk past a large poster of the movie Swatantra Veer Savarkar displayed outside a cinema hall in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Mar. 21, 2024. The movie, set to be released on Friday, is one of several upcoming Bollywood releases based on polarizing issues, which either promote Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s political agenda, or lambast his critics. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

As India’s election nears, some Bollywood films promote Modi politics by embracing Hindu nationalism

Aam Aadmi Party, or Common Man's Party, leader Arvind Kejriwal listens to a speaker during a public meeting in New Delhi, India, Dec. 27, 2013. The anti-corruption crusader was arrested on Thursday, March 21, 2024, by a federal agency that accused his party and ministers of accepting 1 billion rupees ($12 million) as bribes from liquor contractors nearly two years ago, a top leader of his party said. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

New Delhi’s top elected official arrested in liquor bribery case

FILE-Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets supporters as he arrives for an election campaign rally of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. From April 19 to June 1, nearly 970 million Indians - or over 10% of the world’s population - will vote in the country's general elections. The mammoth electoral exercise is the biggest anywhere in the world - and will take 44 days to complete before results are announced on June 4. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A. File)

India’s multi-phase election will stretch over 44 days. Here’s why it takes so long

Chief Election Commissioner of India, Rajiv Kumar, speaks at a press conference organized by the commission to announce dates for the national elections, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India announces 6-week general elections starting April 19 with Modi’s BJP topping surveys

Indian farmers protest in New Delhi demanding new legislation for minimum crop prices

Thousands of farmers in India, crowding buses and trains, traveled to New Delhi on Thursday to demand new legislation to guarantee minimum profitable crop prices. (AP video: Piyush Nagpal and Rishi Lekhi)

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Modi visits Kashmir’s main city for the first time since revoking region’s semi-autonomy

Police use tear gas against Indian farmers marching to New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices

Police use tear gas against Indian farmers marching to New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices

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Indian farmers who have been protesting to demand guaranteed crop prices gather at Ramlila ground in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo)

Thousands of Indian farmers protest in New Delhi demanding a law guaranteeing minimum crop prices

Thousands of farmers are protesting in India’s capital to press their demand for a new law that would guarantee minimum crop prices.

Students protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Guwahati, India, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. India has implemented a controversial citizenship law that has been widely criticized for excluding Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. The Citizenship Amendment Act provides a fast track to naturalization for Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before Dec. 31, 2014. Banner in Assamese reads, "we will not accept CAA " (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

India’s new citizenship law excludes Muslims. Here’s what to know

India has implemented a citizenship law that excludes migrants who are Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government.

FILE- Indians raise their tied hands and shout slogans during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in New Delhi, India, Dec. 27, 2019. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Monday announced rules to implement a 2019 citizenship law that critics say is discriminatory against Muslims, weeks before the Hindu nationalist leader will seek a third term in office. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has announced rules to implement a 2019 citizenship law that excludes Muslims, weeks before the Hindu nationalist leader seeks a third term in office.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at a public rally at the Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, March 7, 2024. Modi on Thursday made his first official visit to Kashmir's main city since New Delhi stripped the disputed region of semi-autonomy and took direct control of it in 2019. (AP Photo)

Modi visits Kashmir’s main city for the first time since revoking region’s semi-autonomy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first official visit to Kashmir’s main city since India stripped the disputed region of its semi-autonomy in 2019.

FILE- Leaders from the opposition INDIA alliance raise their hands together in a show of unity during a protest rally against the suspension of more than 140 lawmakers from the parliament, in New Delhi, India, Dec. 22, 2023. Last year more than two dozen opposition parties in India came together to take on Narendra Modi, one of the country's most popular prime ministers in generations. But the broad alliance, beset with ideological differences and personality clashes, is cracking at a crucial time, just months before the country votes in a national election. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

The opposition alliance that aimed to oust Modi appears to be cracking just before India’s elections

India’s beleaguered opposition parties, which are beset with ideological differences and personality clashes, joined hands last year to unseat popular Prime Minister Narendra Modi and defeat his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral juggernaut.

Protesting farmers face the police across a barricade near Shambhu border that divides northern Punjab and Haryana states, almost 200 kilometers (125 miles) from New Delhi, India, Friday, Feb.16, 2024. Farmers are blocking highways and holding demonstrations in many rural areas in northern India to protest over a range of grievances that have also led tens and thousands to march toward the capital. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Indian farmers strike to demand guaranteed crop prices as others attempt to march to New Delhi

Farmers are blocking highways and holding demonstrations in many rural areas in northern India to protest over a range of grievances that have also led tens and thousands to march toward the capital.

FILE- Women stand in a queue to cast their votes in Chachiyawas village, near Ajmer, India, Nov. 25, 2023. India’s top court on Thursday struck down a controversial election funding system that allowed individuals and companies to send unlimited donations to political parties without any need to disclose donor identity, a system critics have long said is undemocratic and favored Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party. (AP Photo/ Deepak Sharma, File)

India’s top court strikes down system for anonymous political donations ahead of national elections

India’s top court has struck down a controversial election funding system that allowed individuals and companies to send unlimited donations to political parties without the need to disclose donor identity.

Farmers react after police fired tear gas at protesting farmers near Shambhu border that divides northern Punjab and Haryana states, almost 200 km (125 miles) from New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb.14, 2024. Protesting Indian farmers Wednesday clashed with police for a second consecutive day as tens of thousands of them tried to march to the capital New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices for their produce. (AP Photo/Rajesh Sachar)

Protesting Indian farmers clash with police for a second day as they march toward the capital

Protesting Indian farmers have clashed with police for a second consecutive day as tens of thousands tried to march to the capital to demand guaranteed prices for their produce.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, walks across the carpeted steps with Hindu priest Brahmaviharidas Swami to inaugurate the first stone-built Hindu temple in the Middle East, belonging to Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha in Abu Mureikha, 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opens stone-built Hindu temple in UAE ahead of India’s elections

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited the Middle East’s first traditional stone-built Hindu temple, internationalizing both his reelection campaign and his effort to push secular and multicultural India into a Hindu state.

Flower petals are thrown to welcome the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wearing a waistcoat, as he arrives with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Bishwa Sarma, to his right, to address a public rally in Guwahati, India, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

India’s Modi arrives in the UAE on his seventh trip to a nation that is home to millions of Indians

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in the United Arab Emirates on his seventh trip to the nation.

Farmers run for cover after police fired tear gas to disperse protesting farmers who were marching to New Delhi near the Punjab-Haryana border at Shambhu, India, Tuesday, Feb.13, 2024. Farmers are marching to the Indian capital asking for a guaranteed minimum support price for all farm produce. (AP Photo/Rajesh Sachar)

Why tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting again

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting for guaranteed crop prices, renewing a movement that succeeded in getting contentious new agricultural laws repealed in 2021.

Farmers run for cover after police fired tear gas to disperse protesting farmers who were marching to New Delhi near the Punjab-Haryana border at Shambhu, India, Tuesday, Feb.13, 2024. Farmers are marching to the Indian capital asking for a guaranteed minimum support price for all farm produce. (AP Photo/Rajesh Sachar)

Police use tear gas against Indian farmers marching to New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices

Indian police have fired tear gas and detained some farmers who tried to break barricades blocking their way to New Delhi in a protest march.

Hindu monks walk down the stairs of the first stone-built Hindu temple in Abu Mureikha, 40 kms, 25 miles, northeast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. The soon-to-open BAPS Hindu Mandir signals just how far the United Arab Emirates has come in acknowledging the different faiths of its expatriate community, long dominated by Indians who power life across its construction sites and boardrooms. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

First stone-built Hindu temple in the Middle East rises in the UAE ahead of Modi’s latest visit

The first stone-constructed Hindu temple in the Middle East is preparing to open in the United Arab Emirates.

India's Bharatiya Janata Party supporters celebrate after Uttarakhand state lawmakers passed a uniform marriage law for all religions in Dehradun, India, Wednesday, Feb.7, 2024. The northern Indian state on Wednesday approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under a new law that also requires couples that live together to register with the government or face punishment. (AP Photo)

Indian state passes uniform marriage legislation opposed by Muslims as a Hindu code applied to all

An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities in the state.

A view of the ongoing coastal road project in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. India’s finance minister unveiled Thursday a short-term budget to meet government expenditures until national elections are held by May. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

India’s government announces a short-term budget until national elections are held by May

India’s finance minister has unveiled a short-term budget to meet government expenditures until national elections are held by May, saying it will boost spending on infrastructure projects, build homes for poor villagers and cut the fiscal deficit by reducing subsidies.

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with his arm outstretched, ride an open vehicle together during a road show in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Macron will be the chief guest at India's annual republic day parade in New Delhi on Friday. (AP Photo/ Deepak Sharma)

France’s Macron tours historic sites with India’s Modi and will be the chief guest for Republic Day

French President Emmanuel Macron has toured historic sites in India with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was set to be the chief guest at the country’s national day celebrations.

A general view of the audience during the opening of a temple dedicated to Hindu deity Lord Ram, in Ayodhya, India, Monday, Jan.22, 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to open a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of an ancient mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya in a grand event that is expected to galvanize Hindu voters months before a general election. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Modi opens Hindu temple built on ruins on razed mosque, in political triumph for prime minister

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a controversial Hindu temple that was built on the ruins of a razed historic mosque.

FILE - Standing before a poster of the Hindu deity Ram, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) member shouts slogans during a rally to protest against the raid on a Hindu temple in northern India, in Gauhati, India, July 7, 2005. While the slogan "Jai Sri Ram," or "Hail Lord Ram," has become a political battle cry for Hindu nationalists, "Ram-Ram" remains a popular way of greeting across rural India. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh, File)

A temple to a top Hindu deity was built over a destroyed mosque in India. Here is why it matters

India’s top politicians, religious leaders and celebrities have gathered in the holy city of Ayodhya for the partial opening of a grand temple for one of Hinduism’s most revered deities, Lord Ram.

FILE- A construction crew works on Ram Mandir, a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Ram in Ayodhya, India, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Three decades after Hindu mobs tore down a historical mosque, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the consecration of a grand Hindu temple at the same site on Monday in a political move to boost his party ahead of a crucial national vote. (AP Photo/Deepak Sharma, File)

A Hindu temple built atop a razed mosque in India is helping Modi boost his political standing

Three decades after Hindu mobs tore down a historical mosque, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the consecration of a grand Hindu temple at the same site on Monday.

Vehicles drive past a billboard featuring Hindu deity Lord Ram and his temple in Mumbai, India, ahead of the opening of the grand temple in northern Ayodhya city, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Modi’s promised Ram temple is set to open and resonate with Hindus ahead of India’s election

Preparations are underway in India’s northern Ayodhya city to mark the opening of a grand temple for Lord Ram, Hinduism’s most revered deity.

FILE - Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The president of the Maldives has suspended three of his deputy ministers for posting derogatory comments against India and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi. President Mohamed Muizzu suspended the three until further notice for their posts on X, formerly Twitter, which were in response to Modi’s posts promoting the pristine beaches of India’s Lakshadweep archipelago for Indian travelers. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool), File)

Maldives leader demands removal of Indian military from the archipelago by mid-March

Maldives’ President Mohamed Muizzu wants the Indian military personnel stationed in his archipelago nation withdrawn by March 15.

In this Handout photograph released by Indian Congress party office shows India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, left, waves to supporters from a bus during a two month-long cross-country march from the northeastern Indian state of Manipur in Thoubal district, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. Gandhi has begun a two month-long cross-country march to regain some of the popularity it has lost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Hindu-nationalist party ahead of a crucial national vote this year. The march will cover 6,713 km (4,171 miles) in 67 days, mostly in buses but also on foot, while passing through 110 districts in 15 states. (Indian Congress Party via AP )

India’s main opposition party begins a cross-country march ahead of a crucial national vote

Thousands of members of India’s main opposition Congress party and its supporters have begun a 2-month cross-country march ahead of a crucial national vote this year.

In this photograph released on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's social media platform X on Jan.4, 2024, Modi, walks on a beach in Lakshadweep, India. Relationship between India and the Maldives is facing challenges after officials in the tiny island nation made derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s posts that promoted the pristine beaches of India’s Lakshadweep archipelago. (Narendra Modi's social media platform X via AP)

Modi’s beach visit to a remote Indian archipelago rakes up a storm in the Maldives

The relationship between India and the Maldives is facing challenges after officials in the tiny island nation made derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s posts that promoted the pristine beaches of India’s Lakshadweep archipelago.

Congress party President Mallikarjun Kharge, wearing hat, addresses the media after suspended lawmakers marched outside the Parliament House in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Dozens of opposition lawmakers suspended from Parliament by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for obstructing proceedings in the chamber held a street protest on Thursday accusing the government of throttling democracy in the country. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India’s opposition lawmakers protest their suspension from Parliament by the government

Dozens of opposition lawmakers suspended from Parliament by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for obstructing proceedings have held a protest accusing the government of throttling democracy in the country.

An Indian policeman stands guard near a cutout portrait of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi displayed at the main market in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. India’s top court on Monday upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to strip disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s special status as a semi-autonomous region with a separate constitution and inherited protections on land and jobs. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

India’s Supreme Court upholds government’s decision to remove disputed Kashmir’s special status

India’s top court has upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to strip disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s special status as a semi-autonomous region with a separate constitution and inherited protections on land and jobs.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets party worker during celebrations following Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in the state elections at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. India's Hindu nationalist party was headed for a clear win in three out of four states Sunday, according to the election commission's website. (AP Photo)

India’s ruling BJP wins 3 of 4 states in elections that pitted Modi’s party against Congress

Results show India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party won in three of four state elections in a crucial vote that pitted the main opposition party against that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi before national polls next year.

This handout photo provided by the Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations shows Pushkar Singh Dhami, right, Chief Minister of the state of Uttarakhand, greeting a worker rescued from the site of an under-construction road tunnel that collapsed in Silkyara in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Dhami said eight workers were rescued so far on Tuesday. The laborers are being pulled out through a passageway made of welded pipes which rescuers previously pushed through dirt and rocks. (Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations via AP)

41 rescued workers emerge dazed and smiling after 17 days trapped in collapsed road tunnel in India

Forty-one construction workers have been rescued from a collapsed tunnel in northern India where they had been stranded the last 17 days.

Fahad Shah, founder and editor of news portal The Kashmir Walla, speaks with the Associated Press at his residence on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Indian authorities have released the prominent Kashmir journalist on bail nearly two years after he was arrested on accusations of publishing “anti-national content” and “glorifying terrorism.” (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Indian authorities release Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah after 21 months in prison

Indian authorities have released a prominent Kashmir journalist on bail nearly two years after he was arrested on accusations of publishing “anti-national content” and “glorifying terrorism.”

FILE- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at a rally in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023 welcomed a cease-fire that's expected to enable the release of dozens of hostages taken by Hamas and urged leaders of the top rich and developing nations to work together to ensure the Israel-Hamas war doesn't expand in the region. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

India in G20 summit welcomes Israel-Hamas cease-fire, urges action on climate, other issues

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed a cease-fire in Gaza that’s expected to enable the release of dozens of hostages taken by Hamas.

FILE- India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right gestures and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the media as they arrive for a meeting in New Delhi, India, Jan.15, 2018. Modi, a staunch Hindu nationalist, was one of the first global leaders to swiftly express solidarity with Israel and call the Hamas attack “terrorism.” Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel in 2017. Netanyahu, travelled to New Delhi the following year and called the relationship between New Delhi and Tel Aviv a “marriage made in heaven.” (AP Photo, File)

India bars protests that support the Palestinians. Analysts say a pro-Israel shift helps at home

From Western capitals to Muslim states, protest rallies over the Israel-Hamas war have made headlines.