As counting of votes in India's parliamentary elections began today, early trends show BJP-led NDA ahead of opposition's INDIA bloc but the gap between them is narrowing as the opposition appears to improve its performance significantly compared to 2019 national poll, EC App said

As the Lok Sabha election counts begin this morning in India, capping an 80-day long marathon polling process, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aiming for a record-tying third consecutive term in office, while the opposition bloc in India hopes to pull off a surprise, Ndtv reports

India's election commission began tallying on Tuesday the 642 million votes cast in just-concluded elections, an AFP reporter at a counting centre said, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tipped to win

A module of a Chinese lunar probe successfully took off from the far side of the Moon on Tuesday carrying samples to be taken back to Earth, state media reported

A High Court in Pakistan yesterday acquitted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan from a conviction on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer and his party said, but Khan will remain in prison for now due to a conviction in another case.

India’s Election Commission (EC) said yesterday a record-breaking 642 million voters cast their ballots in the general election that concluded on June 1 and dismissed opposition concerns over how the votes would be counted.

Two suspected rebels were killed in a gunfight with soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said today, weeks after the disputed, mostly Muslim territory saw its highest voter turnout for decades in India's general election

A Pakistan High Court today overturned a treason conviction against jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, months after his party was sidelined in a general election

India created a "world record" with 642 million voters, including 31.2 crore women, exercising their franchise in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls, the world's largest electoral exercise, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said today

India's general election, with nearly a billion eligible voters, ended on Saturday. Votes are to be counted on Tuesday and results will be known later that day

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe successfully landed on the far side of the Moon yesterday to collect samples, state media reported -- the latest leap for Beijing’s decades-old space programme.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the regional vote in Arunachal Pradesh, a state bordering China, while a local party swept to power in Sikkim, a Himalayan state, officials and politicians said yesterday.

India's opposition leaders today dismissed the exit polls prediction by major television channels which claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was likely to return to power, terming them "bogus" and "fraud"

Ruling BJP is all set to return to power with three-fourths majority in the 60-member legislative assembly of north-eastern India state of Arunachal Pradesh as per the latest results and trends emerging from the counting of votes

At least 33 Indian polling staff died on the last day of voting from heatstroke in just one state, a top election official said Sunday, after scorching temperatures gripped swathes of the country

Based on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, billionaire Gautam Adani has surpassed Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani to reclaim the title of richest person in Asia

North Korea has sent around 600 more trash-filled balloons containing everything from cigarette butts to plastic across the border, Seoul's military said Sunday, adding that security personnel were collecting them as they landed

China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully landed on the far side of the Moon to collect samples, state news agency Xinhua reported Sunday -- the latest leap for Beijing's decades-old space programme

Twenty people, including children, drowned when a boat sank during a river crossing in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province yesterday, a provincial official said.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin yesterday hailed a “new era of security” in the Asia-Pacific region, as Washington strengthens its network of alliances aimed at countering China’s growing military might and influence.