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India's six-week long elections started today

By Diaa Hadid

Published April 19, 2024 at 12:41 PM HST

Nearly a billion people start going to the polls in India Friday, as the worlds largest democracy starts its mammoth election.

Diaa Hadid

Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news for their story on why abortion rates in Pakistan are among the highest in the world.

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