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India hands PM Modi a surprising setback, with his majority set to shrink in the world’s largest election and the opposition performing better than expected
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/india-election-results-narendra-modi-rcna154839/
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NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on course Tuesday for a rare third term at the helm of the world’s most populous country, but faced a surprising setback after a divisive decade in power.
India’s benchmark stock indices closed at record highs on Monday after exit polls pointed to a thumping victory for Modi, then fell sharply Tuesday as the results became more muddied.
Although Indian summers are generally hot, scientists say heat waves in India and elsewhere in South Asia are becoming hotter, longer and more frequent at least partly as a result of climate change.
Today’s India is run by “a very strong, dominant BJP, which in 1984 had only got four seats in Parliament,” said Yamini Aiyar, former chief executive of the Center for Policy Research, a highly regarded think tank in New Delhi that has been targeted by a Modi government crackdown on civil society.
It cited the arrests and prosecutions of journalists, information manipulation using artificial intelligence and other technologies, and Indian authorities’ demands that social media companies remove online content critical of the government, among other issues.
Modi, who rarely takes live questions from journalists, pushed back against criticism at a joint news conference with President Joe Biden during a state visit to Washington last year.
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