To Modi’s critics and opponents, India was on the fast track to becoming a de-facto one-party state. Voters have now changed that.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing alliance may be headed toward a narrower majority in Parliament, based on early results.

The results appear to mark a rare setback for a politician who has never failed to secure a majority in state or national elections over a 23-year political career.

Stripped of his strong majority, India’s prime minister will need the help of allied parties to push through his economic agenda.

India may no longer be Narendra Modi's. Indians handed the 73-year-old premier a chance to lead the country for another five years but likely robbed his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party of its absolute majority,

Officials in Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) post images of Ram with six-pack abs, drawing his bow and arrow—a far cry from the Ram in my grandmother’s temple, who smiles beside his family. The politicization of Ram culminated earlier this year,