Many Hindus don't want to live next door to a Muslim

The stories are intended to show Mr Modi's finer qualities, but some are more believable than others

Nepal's Sherpa community is confronting a dark tragedy after at least 12 guides were killed by an avalanche that swept down a climbing route on Mt Everest. A search was ongoing for at least three more guides still missing following the deadliest ever single day on the world's highest mountain.

In the fields of wheat outside of Sikar, change is stirring. Young women, once rarely educated, now go to school, even college, and consider careers and lives shut-off to their mothers.

Cousins in the country’s political royalty slug it out as they vie for power

Prime ministerial hopeful's trusted lieutenant Amit Shah has been censured for making inflammatory speeches

Political opponents seize on Modi’s revelation that he hasn’t seen his wife in decades

The generational, religious and social differences enlivening Delhi’s three-way election fight reflect the wider mood in the country

Andrew Buncombe in Kutba talks to the men and women who fled the violence last September at the hands of the Hindus in Uttar Pradesh

An anti-corruption campaigner targeting the frontrunner in India’s election campaign said he feared he might be killed after he was attacked for the second time in five days.