India election: Modi's report card
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured another five-year term after winning a landslide general election victory. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks set to win about 300 of the 543 seats in parliament, in what Mr Modi hailed as "a historic mandate". Fergus Nicoll has travelled to Mr Modi’s constituency at Varanasi on the River Ganges in Uttar Pradesh. Prime Minister Modi promised to clean up the river after decades of pollution. Professor VN Mishra has strong words for the Prime Minister on what needs to be done to save the river and modernise an outdated sewerage system. Outside the city, we meet the farmers for whom Modi has created a model village, complete with solar-powered street lights - and the farmers who are about to lose their fields to a big truck park. There are hundreds of thousands of workers who have concluded that their best prospects lie abroad, most often in the Gulf. It is a mixed prospect, with the promise of money to send back home, but prolonged absences can bring great strain to families Stephen Ryan speaks to Professor Irudaya Rajan, Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum, the lawyer and writer Smitha Girish whose husband has lived in Dubai for the last 15 years, and VK Mathews, who set up his own business when he returned to India. (Picture: Voters lined up at a polling station in Varanasi, India. Picture credit: Madanmohan Sharma)
You May Also Like

CNBC Business News Update
CNBC

Equity
TechCrunch, Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Sean O'Kane, Theresa Loconsolo

BFM Bourse
BFM Business

Bloomberg Talks
Bloomberg

Founder's Story
IBH Media

GURULANDIA
Marco Cappelli & Simone Salvai

🇨🇭🇩🇪 Markt-Trends setzen mit Swissquote
Markus Koch, Wieland Arlt und Feyyaz Alingan bieten Ihnen einen Überblick über alle Anlageklassen

Hágale como quiera
Sonoro

Inversión Dividendos
Carlos García

Happy Work - Bien-être au travail et management bienveillant
Gaël Chatelain-Berry
Community discussion