The news led to bloodbath in India’s stock market, with Sensex, the BSE flagship index, crashing by a whipping 4,100 points in early trading hours on Tuesday
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Indian states gear up for penultimate round of elections ahead of 2024 national polls
Chhattisgarh and Mizoram are among the five Indian states going to the polls between November 7 and 30
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Dubai man names son after Indian PM
The child was born on May 23, the same day as Modi’s victory in India’s general election
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Modi’s BJP wins overall majority in Indian election with 303 seats
Final results announced in Indian election as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is returned to power
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Modi claims India poll victory, vows ‘inclusive’ future
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweets victory message as vote counting continues in Indian election
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Opposition leader Gandhi says gloomy Indian exit polls ‘fake’
A slew of exit polls released after the world’s largest election ended on Sunday projected that Modi and his allies would return to power
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India shares hit record high over Modi election victory forecasts
The seven rounds of voting over six weeks ended in India on Sunday with about 65% of eligible voters taking part
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Gallery: Seventh and final round of voting in India
Ending the world’s biggest election with 900 million eligible voters from Goa’s beaches to Mumbai’s slums and Ladakh’s Himalayan monasteries. Long queues formed outside polling stations in eight northern states electing the final 59 candidates to India’s 543-seat lower house.
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Poor boy Modi becomes India’s nationalist powerhouse
Doubts have been expressed over Narendra Modi’s economic reforms and businesses still complain about the sudden cancellation of high-value banknotes in 2016 in a bid to combat the black-market economy
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World’s largest election reaches penultimate round in India
India’s almost-seven week election, the biggest on Earth with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a new term from the 900 million voters, wraps up next Sunday with results due on May 23
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Gallery: Voting underway in 59 parliamentary seats
Phase six of India’s general elections, which includes the capital New Delhi votes Sunday’s penultimate round of India’s almost seven-week-long election, which wraps up on May 19.
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In pictures: Indian Lok Sabha election 2019 phase 4 voting underway
Indians have already voted in three out of the seven phases of the mega national election which began on April 11.
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Bollywood stars out in force Urmila Matondkar’s Mumbai North constituency
Several Indian corporate chieftains such as Anil Ambani, Adi Godrej and HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh also cast their votes early
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In pictures: Narendra Modi cast his vote on country’s general election
Third phase of voting begins in 117 of India’s 543 constituencies with more than 190 million voters in 15 states will be the biggest number of any of the seven rounds of the election being held over six weeks.
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In pictures: Voting begins in second phase of the India’s election 2019
Nearly 100 constituencies in 13 states go to the polls today in the second round of the seven-phase election that began on April 11.
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Video: All you need to know about the world’s largest democracy votes in India
Beginning in April, India will hold a month-long vote to elect its next Prime Minister.
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France waived taxes for Indian firm in controversial jet deal – report
New Delhi agreed in 2016 to purchase 36 Rafale jets from France but the deal has been embroiled in misconduct allegations