The incident took place on the 22nd anniversary of the parliament attacks
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UAE is the top destination for Indian workers abroad, says minister
India’s Minister of State for External Affairs says the UAE is most popular for overseas work, ahead of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the US and Oman
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Video: India Elections 2019 – impact on the Middle East
Dubai’s ruler H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum congratulated re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his landslide victory by securing 303 out of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha.
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Gallery: Five key economic challenges for Narendra Modi’s second term
With Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party securing a landslide victory in the Indian elections. Here we look at the key economic challenges facing Asia’s third-biggest economy.
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Gallery: Counting begins in India’s mega-election
Officials around India began Thursday the mammoth process of counting the roughly 600 million votes cast in the world’s biggest election, with results due later in the day.
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Gallery: Regional parties will be the kingmakers after the Lok Sabha polls
Regional political leaders with clout across various Indian states — who may decide whether the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party or their biggest political rival, Rahul Gandhi’s Indian National Congress, can reach the 272 seats needed for a majority.
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These kingmakers could decide who forms India’s new government
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may need outside help to form government, if the exit polls are wrong
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Indian rupee surges on predictions of Modi election win
The Indian currency had its biggest single day gain against the dollar since December 18, 2018
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Video: Indian opposition leader Gandhi looks to capitalize on Modi missteps
He’s the scion of one of the world’s famous political dynasties. Now Rahul Gandhi is in an uphill fight to unseat Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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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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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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Why Modi is looking to the Gulf region in his bid for another term
Narendra Modi is the first Indian prime minister to have visited the UAE in over three decades and, as voters take to the polls, he will be hoping his charm offensive in the region will be a big asset during his re-election campaign