New Delhi, Apr 15 (EFE).- In Indian politics, a sphere heavily dominated by men, five women across party lines stand out as the most influential female politicians. Sonia Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee ...

Modi’s party lifted its sagging fortunes in one of the nation’s richest states by paying small handouts to female voters.

Axis estimates the handout programmes by more than a third of India's 36 states or federal territories amount to an annual ...

Indian political parties are increasingly targeting women voters with fiscally draining handouts of cash around the time of ...

Over the years, a number of female politicians have risen to prominence in India - Indira Gandhi, Mayawati, Vasundara Raje, Mamata Banerjee and Sonia Gandhi to name a few. However, India’s ...

Only a quarter of Indian adults believe that men make better political leaders. Does this finding reflect a strong demand for female leaders? Indian women have been ministers, president and prime ...

In the world's largest democracy, politicians are finding that they need to listen to women if they want power. In northern India, some women had long complained that they were fed up with their ...

They are still working on preventing women from participating in politics because if they come ... has given tickets to 15 women while the INDIA bloc (the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, the Congress ...