Voting took nearly four months in India's first election in 1951-1952, just four days in 1980, and 39 days in 2019. This year's election, spanning 44 days, is the second-longest in history.

Rahul Gandhi led Congress and the INDIA bloc staged debates around democracy, and the future of secularism and claimed that the Constitution itself was at stake in this election. Yet, in the end ...

Celebrate Civil Services Day with 12 stories of IAS, IPS, and IFS officers whose courage, vision, and leadership helped shape ...

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was instrumental in creating India's centralised Election Commission via an amendment in the ...

The ruling Hindu nationalist party has won one of the most emotionally and religiously charged elections in Indian history in the state of Gujarat. CNN's Suhasini Haidar reports (December 16 ...

An exclusive excerpt from The Undying Light: A Personal History of Independent India: As in the first election to the Lok Sabha (1951-52), which saw less than half of India instal a Nehru-led ...

Evolving ethnic conflict and emerging Indian factor The general elections of 1977, which Sirimavo Bandaranaike had called, on July 21 saw another of those dramatic swings of the political pendulum, ...

Canada continues to accuse India, among other countries, of interfering in the country's election process. Months after India rejected the Canadian report on election meddling, Canada's spy ...