Microsoft and Amazon among those splashing out to scale up infrastructure in world’s most populous country
The Indian prime minister won a third term but he now has to rely on a delicate coalition and faces a newly empowered opposition
Opposition leader and Congress allies invigorated after stripping Narendra Modi’s BJP of its outright majority
Loss of ruling party’s parliamentary majority deals stunning blow to prime minister ahead of third term
Stock market tumbles as vote counts point to ruling BJP relying on allies to secure historic third term in power
Scientists warn climate change is increasingly becoming a public health hazard in India
Group set to leverage new public infrastructure in order to compete with rival Reliance and Big Tech
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal rallies rivals to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in final stretch
Founder of one of the UK’s best-funded start-ups has been dogged by legal disputes during a meteoric business career
Commodities house urges Mozambique to resolve commercial fight after rival seizes food export
Serum Institute chief Adar Poonawalla says rule changes could make foreign investors ‘stay away’
Serum Institute of India says it is losing money on each dose it supplies for historic first mass vaccination campaign
Billionaire platform owner challenges takedown requests, but critics argue such efforts are opaque and selective
Supreme court expected to reverse measures designed to protect endangered bustard from development
Political rivals argue hierarchy remains defining social structure with Hindu nationalism leaving marginalised behind
PM seeks to mobilise Hindu voters amid signs of low turnout and anti-incumbency sentiment
Chatbots will soon take over much of the work of human agents, forecasts chief of Indian IT group
Voting takes place over next six weeks as temperatures expected to reach new highs above 45C in some areas
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has built one of the most formidable electoral machines in recent history
States such as Tamil Nadu and Kerala have long resisted the prime minister’s northern Hindi-speaking BJP
South Asia has world’s fastest economic growth but is failing to create jobs, says multilateral lender
Peak XV’s Shailendra Singh plans to ‘double the dollars’ deployed this year
Once country’s most valuable start-up, the company is beset with allegations of mismanagement and governance failings
Analysts say Isis-K — the group blamed for the Moscow attack — gained strength after US withdrawal
Russia’s security services have shifted focus away from Islamist terror
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