Modi places $1.4tn infrastructure bet on his second term

Skeptics doubt gamble to create world's third-largest economy will pay off

20190523 Modi and high speed train

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not said where he will get the money to modernize the country's infrastructure. (Nikkei montage/Reuters) © Reuters

YUJI KURONUMA, Nikkei staff writer

NEW DELHI -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to strike militants in neighboring Pakistan in February is a major reason he and his ruling coalition clinched a landslide general election victory on May 23.

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