Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi appears in roughly 36 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are up 6.5% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -0.55 — mildly negative.

Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 26 May 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is India's third-longest-serving prime minister, and the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
36
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+6.5%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-0.55
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Narendra Modi mentions per day: 91 days, latest 36.00 on 2026-08-200.0010002000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Narendra Modi coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.55 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Narendra Modi: 89 days, latest 7333.00 on 2026-08-180.002500050000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).