India is a diverse country made up of States and Union Territories (UTs). While States have their own local governments, Union Territories are special areas ruled directly by the Central Government.

About 1.4 billion people live in India, and the country is predicted to top China as the world’s most populous country by mid-2023, the United Nations reports. The report estimates that India will ...

In August 2019, amid much controversy, the government of India significantly changed the administrative status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir through the hard-hitting and broadly-reaching ...

After the sudden abrogation of special status under Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, and its bifurcation into two new union territories — one named Jammu and Kashmir, based in the west, and the ...

Currently 16 states and one union territory (UT) have BJP Chief Ministers, with Himanta Biswa Sarma, Rekha Gupta, Devendra ...

Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah intensified the demand for full statehood, citing the current Union Territory ...

The average population represented by each Lok Sabha constituency could fall to around 1.6 million people under the government’s proposed delimitation amendment, compared with nearly 2.5 million at ...