News from India-- BBC

4 March 2014 Last updated at 23:54 ET

India sets general election dates

India's election will take place from 7 April to 12 May, officials announce, in a race pitting Rahul Gandhi's Congress party against the Narendra Modi-led BJP.

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• Profile: Arvind Kejriwal
• Third Front's impact

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India tycoon's custody extended

Indian businessman Subrata Roy is attacked with ink outside the Supreme Court, which orders him remain in custody in a multi-billion dollar fraud case.

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• India's enigmatic tycoon goes undercover

• India Rolls-Royce deals 'on hold'

• India anger at tycoon 'privileges'

• India exhumes 'mutiny rebel' remains

• Afridi sinks India in final over BBC Sport

• India's economic growth slows down

• India Maoists kill seven policemen

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814m Indians eligible to vote in #Elections2014, more than entire US + EU electorate. Nothing comes close to this organisational challenge

Article written by Soutik Biswas Soutik Biswas Delhi correspondent

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Why decision to free Rajiv Gandhi killers is a political masterstroke

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Special Reports

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Beyond the headlines and exploring the people, economy and culture of India.

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• Tendulkar farewell
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• Humayun's Tomb
• Coal fires
• Anglo-Indian community
• Dying mime art
• Kashmir train
• Flood survivors
• Middle-class family
• Uttarakhand floods
• Telegram service
• The 'living dead'
• Indian Africans
• Calcutta trams
• Cinema turns 100
• Rare 19th Century pictures

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From BBC Hindi

• बाहुबल काबू किया, अब धनबल चुनौती: चुनाव आयोग

• किस राज्य में कब होगा चुनाव

• जिन्होंने साल 2000 में मैच-फ़िक्सिंग केस सुलझाया

From BBC Urdu

• ہنگو: سکیورٹی قافلے پر حملہ، ایف سی کے چار اہلکار ہلاک

• بھارت: پارلیمانی انتخابات 2014 کی تاریخوں کا اعلان

• یوکرین:بحران کے حل کے لیے امریکی ’امن منصوبہ‘

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Features and Analysis

• Single at 28

  The stigma of being female and unattached in India
  

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• In pictures

  Images of an exhibition of vintage photographs of Indian women
  

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• Man of the month

  The school dropout who sparked a sanitary pad revolution in India
  

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• Wrap-around revival

  Is the traditional sari staging a comeback?
  

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• Splash of colour

  Street art festival gives a facelift to Delhi
  

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• Rags-to-riches

  Why one of India's most flamboyant tycoons may end up in jail?
  

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• Asia Beats Watch

  The duo mixing traditional Indian melodies with electropop
  

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• Nerves of steel

  Hunters on the trail of India's deadliest man-eating tiger
  

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