Breaking his silence, Congress party president Rahul Gandhi terms parliamentary election exit polls results as “fraudulent” and urges the party men to be alert.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expresses concern over the “needless controversy” created by the opposition over EVMs at a meeting of NDA leaders yesterday evening convened by party president Amit Shah.

India has successfully launched an earth observation satellite that would enhance the country’s surveillance capabilities among others.

India's enormous election took six weeks to hold, but organisers have alloted just one day to count all the ballots cast by some of the 900 million eligible voters.

Minutes after the buttons on the Electronic Voting Machines were pressed for the last time on May 19 in the Indian national elections, the people were flooded with a flurry of exit polls broadcast over TV channels.

A state legislator in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and at least ten others have been killed in an attack by suspected separatist militants, officials say.

Videos of alleged tampering of EVMs in India's Uttar Pradesh have gone viral in the social media, two days ahead of the beginning of vote counting in Indian parliamentary elections.

Stepping up their activities ahead of counting of votes in parliamentary elections on Thursday, top Indian opposition leaders will meet later today to discuss the possibility of a staking claim to form the new government formation in the event of the BJP-led combine failing to get majority.

A day after exit polls predicted a sweeping victory for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi yesterday released an audio message advising party workers to not fall for "rumours" intended to make them drop their guard ahead of the counting of votes on May 23.

Tens of thousands of people in Indian Kashmir have been subjected to torture in the past three decades, according to a report released yesterday by two prominent human rights groups which called for a UN investigation.

Key opposition leader and Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu has flown to Kolkata to meet Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to stitch a non-BJP coalition.

Mamata Banerjee has rubbished exit polls forecast saying “they are gossips” and identified three reasons behind Modi’s victory prediction.

Hours after exit polls on Sunday indicated a huge win for the National Democratic Alliance, Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor tweeted his reading of the prediction as something that can also turn out "all wrong".

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies are likely to return to power for a second consecutive term after the parliamentary elections that ended today, according to different exit polls.

Millions of voters stand in queue in front of polling stations to exercise their franchise in the seventh and final phase of Indian parliamentary elections.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerges from a cave in Kedarnath after spending a night of meditation in the temple town in Uttarakhand.

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi yesterday said Mahatma Gandhi is above power and politics and people like Pragya Singh Thakur are killing the soul of India and the BJP should expel her from the party.

Voting in the seventh and final phase of India’s long-drawn parliamentary elections takes places tomorrow when Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party seeks a second consecutive term in power in the face of an unexpectedly tight contest.

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has one unwanted lead in this month's general election race - according to data from an electoral watchdog it is fielding the most candidates among the major parties who are facing criminal charges. Its main rival, Congress, is just a step behind.

Congress has begun its outreach to opposition parties, indicating that the Prime Minister’s post will not be a sticking point even as Sonia Gandhi is seen to have launched an outreach with non-NDA leaders suggesting there should be detailed discussions ahead of the May 23 results.