Residents in India-controlled Kashmir vote in second phase of polls
About 2.6 million residents are eligible to elect 26 of the 239 candidates in six districts.
About 2.6 million residents are eligible to elect 26 of the 239 candidates in six districts.
The local election will be the first such vote since New Delhi stripped the disputed region’s semi-autonomy in 2019.
North Korean soldiers temporarily crossed the land border between the neighbouring countries.
Mr Modi and his cabinet ministers took the oath of office, administered by President Droupadi Murmu, at the presidential palace in New Delhi.
His Hindu nationalist BJP party has governed India as part of a coalition for a decade.
His Bharatiya Janata Party plans to meet with allies over government formation.
More than 640 million votes were cast in the marathon election held over six weeks in the world’s largest democratic exercise.
Narendra Modi said that his National Democratic Alliance will form the government for the third consecutive time.
Mr Modi’s party appears unlikely to secure a majority on its own, according to an ongoing count, despite pre-election hopes of a landslide victory.
Prime minister Narendra Modi is expected to win a third term in power.
The vote is widely seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in power.
Saturday’s voting in 58 constituencies, including seven in New Delhi, will complete polling for 89.5% of 543 seats in the lower house of Parliament.
India’s six-week long general election began in April, with voting set to go on until June 1 before votes are counted on June 4.
The move enables Arvind Kejriwal to campaign in the country’s national election until the voting ends on June 1, his lawyer said.
The prime minister described the minority as infiltrators and said they have too many children.