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Indian election resumes as heatwave hits voters

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Women at a polling station in Rajasthan - part of the more than 470 million women expected to vote. [AFP]

India's six-week-long election resumed Friday with millions of people lining up outside polling stations in parts of the country hit by a scorching heatwave.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to win a third term in the election, which concludes in early June.

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