Polls opened in three provinces at 7:00 am (0115 GMT), with nearly 50,000 candidates vying for the position of mayor, deputy mayor, ward chairman and ward member in 283 local municipalities.
UN chief Antonio Guterres called on Arab leaders on Tuesday to set aside their differences to confront Syria's six-year conflict, as he toured a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.
The uneasy truce between Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh and cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu seems to be cracking.
Pakistan has placed Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed on the Exit Control List, two days after the 26/11 attacks mastermind and his four aides were put under house arrest, preventing the five from leaving the country.
In a series of Tweets, Kejriwal expressed grief over the incident and asked the entire country to fight for the rights of Jawans.
In the incident that had taken place at the Gulbarg Society on February 28, 2002, 69 persons had been killed.
Narendra Modi and Hassan Rouhani discussed trade, energy and strategic ties.
The order came after a public interest litigation was filed in the Supreme Court by three infants through their lawyer fathers seeking a ban on firecrackers.
The policy was approved in the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. "The objective of the policy is to ensure inclusion of naxalites in the main stream by leaving violent activities."
Actress-singer Priyanka Chopra says Shabana Azmi, who turned 65 today, is her inspiration in the showbiz world.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has voiced serious concern over call drops and directed officials to resolve the problem urgently besides ensuring that it does not extend to data connectivity.
The security flaw does not enable execution of arbitrary code but allow injecting a JavaScript payload into the local file context; allowing for search and upload potentially sensitive local files.
The first coach of the train jumped onto the south-end concourse of the platform and was seen lying in a tilted position.
