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Apr 19, 20244 min read
Explainer-India's Lok Sabha election 2024: What are the key issues?
Nearly 1 billion Indians will be eligible to vote in the world's biggest election starting this month. Opinion polls predict an easy win...


Apr 19, 20244 min read
Factbox-India's Lok Sabha election 2024: the main political parties and candidates
India, with nearly a billion eligible voters, set off on the world's largest electoral exercise on Friday. The country has more than...


Apr 19, 20243 min read
India begins voting in gigantic election as Modi seeks historic third term
KAIRANA/CHENNAI, India -India began voting on Friday in the world's largest election as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a historic...


Apr 18, 20242 min read
India's election officials climb hills, ford rivers to reach voters
NONGRIAT, India -India was preparing on Thursday for the world's largest general election, as polling officers clambered up hills,...


Apr 14, 20241 min read
India's Modi says BJP poll manifesto focuses on creating jobs
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the 2024 election manifesto of his Bharatiya Janata Party...


Apr 12, 20243 min read
Israel on edge for Iranian retaliation after embassy strike
JERUSALEM - Israel on Friday nervously awaited an attack by Iran or its proxies as warnings grew of retaliation for the killing last...


Apr 12, 20242 min read
Indian voters want jobs, price reduction; cheer new Hindu temple, survey shows
NEW DELHI - Unemployment and inflation are the main concerns of Indian voters but Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strong leadership,...


Apr 11, 20243 min read
Myanmar troops retreat as rebels declare control over key border town
About 200 Myanmar military personnel withdrew to a bridge to Thailand on Thursday after a days-long assault by the anti-junta resistance,...


Apr 11, 20244 min read
He once sold tea, now India's Modi seeks his own 'tryst with destiny'
NEW DELHI - Narendra Modi often says he likes to think big, dream big and act big. Having sold tea at a railway station as a boy...


Apr 11, 20246 min read
India's Gandhi dynasty, trailing Modi, battles for political survival
RAEBARELI/HALOL, India - The city of Raebareli in northern India has for most of the last 75 years been the political fiefdom of the...


Apr 10, 20242 min read
Olympics-India's Zareen ready to step out of Mary Kom's shadow, says coach
NEW DELHI - Two-time world boxing champion Nikhat Zareen is ready to step out of fellow Indian MC Mary Kom's shadow with a medal at...


Apr 9, 20244 min read
How an election-packed 2024 is shaping up for world markets
LONDON - In an election-packed year, markets have so far shrugged off results, with the focus squarely on the one contest that could...
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