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.

Indian troops and separatist militants clash in Indian-controlled Kashmir and five people are killed including a civilian, officials say, the latest casualties in a new phase of violence in the 30-year insurgency.

Two Indian climbers die near the summit of Mount Kanchenjunga in Nepal and a Chilean mountaineer was missing on the world's third highest mountain, their hiking company say.

In an unprecedented action, India’s Election Commission cut short the election campaign in West Bengal citing “safety and security” of voters.

A soldier and three terrorists have been killed in a gunfight in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir in India, police said.

Bangladesh’s Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has requested his Indian counterpart Suresh Prabhu to take necessary measures to withdraw anti-dumping duty on Bangladeshi products as they met on the sidelines of WTO ministerial meeting in India's New Delhi.

The proportion of candidates with criminal cases against them in the ongoing parliamentary elections in India is more than in the previous two national polls, according to a report by election watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) made public on Monday.

Complaints about malfunctioning EVMs were reported from several places of Delhi today as voting in the sixth and penultimate phase of Indian parliamentary elections is underway.

Millions of Indians exercise their franchise as the long-drawn parliamentary elections entered its home stretch to winding down with voting in the sixth and penultimate phase underway across the national capital and six other states in another litmus test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election bid.

The Indian Air Force intercepts a Georgian AN-12 transport plane which entered the Indian air space from Pakistan, deviating from its flight path, the Indian defence ministry says.

For the first time in India’s parliamentary elections, the country’s Election Commission is to undertake exercise of matching EVM results with Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machine slips during vote-count of the ongoing polls on May 23.

Two days after Mamata Banerjee said she wanted to give him a "tight slap of democracy", Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered his response while campaigning in Bengal.

Food Minister of India’s West Bengal state Jyotipriyo Mullick claims to have received death threat from a Bangladeshi criminal and sought protection from police in this regard.

India’s Supreme Court has rejected 50 per cent mandatory verification of electronic voting machines with Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail during Lok Sabha elections of May 23.

Twelve suspected Rohingyas, believed to be victims of human trafficking, were arrested in India’s Mizoram for entering the north eastern state without valid travel documents, a police officer said today.

Polling in the fifth phase of India’s parliamentary elections was underway across seven states today with Congress president Rahul Gandhi, his mother and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh among the political heavyweights in fray.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi are among 674 candidates whose electoral fate will be sealed in Electronic Voting Machines tomorrow when voting takes place in the fifth phase of India’s parliamentary elections covering 51 constituencies across seven states.

Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is slapped by a man during a roadshow as part of campaigning in Moti Nagar locality of West Delhi in New Delhi parliamentary constituency.

Flight operations have resumed at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport in Kolkata. The first departure since the closure of the Kolkata airport runway, in the wake of the extremely severe Cyclone Fani threat over the Bay of Bengal, was recorded at 09:57 hours, Saturday, when Air India AI 743 took off for Agartala.