Polls opened at 7 am local time and would close at 5 pm with some 12,845 polling stations being set up throughout the country for 15.9 million voters, who will choose a successor to President Maithripala Sirisina.
Hitting back at Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah for his dynastic politics jibe, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday termed it as "hypocrisy," saying the party should first "lecture" its friends in Maharashtra and Punjab.
The Mirwaiz said that the attack was the 'handiwork of forces who were opposed to peace in Kashmir.'
One of Lutyens' Delhi's much sought after addresses, 1 Prithviraj Road, is being put up for sale. Anil Thadani, the founder of private investment advisory firm Schroder Capital Partners, is the owner of the property, which is just under one acre. Sources told Business Standard that the property was being valued at Rs 60-80 crore (Rs 600-800 million).
Seven persons were killed and 27 injured when an under-construction building came crashing down in the posh Civil Lines locality in Allahabad early on Wednesday morning.
Khan Mohammad Cassumbhoy Ibrahim, who played four Tests for India against the West Indies in 1948-49 at home and opened the innings with Vinoo Mankad, passed away in Karachi at the age of 88 after a prolonged illness.
Crime Branch sleuths raided a multimedia shop in posh Dhantoli area and seized pirated software CDs and other material worth Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million), police said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Congress said that that it is ready to go it alone in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha election.
Sisodia had termed the incident as an example of typical "colonial mindset" and said if the allegations against the restaurant were found true, its licence would be cancelled.
The Kapoors gather at Shashi Kapoor's home for a grand Christmas reunion.
Nick Kyrgios must not let playing on Rod Laver Arena douse his natural fire when he plays Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the standout match of the Australian Open third round on Friday, according to former champion Mats Wilander.
A large number of traders of Delhi went on a 24-hour strike on Friday as the Supreme Court-ordered sealing of illegal commercial establishments in residential areas continued in the city.
The civic body resumed its controversial sealing drive on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee decided to go ahead with the operations, despite protests from traders.
Around 70 per cent of the women also said that they were afraid to walk on the streets after dark as it was highly unsafe.
Jhanvi Kapoor's mother talks from Srinagar.
Aishwarya Rai's Mumbai residence is lit up beautifully.
The police said there is evidence to prove the brothers tampered with judicial records. The issue also came up before the Delhi high court with the police claiming to have got hold of substantial evidence against Sushil and Gopal Ansal and four others for tampering with the records of the fire that claimed 59 lives in the posh south Delhi cinema hall in 1997.
A young woman producer of a news channel was shot dead in the early hours of Tuesday at a posh area of south-west Delhi while she was on her way back from work.
The Worli-Nariman Point sea link would connect to Marine Drive, destroying the beauty for which it is known
He is reportedly undergoing a four-day exercise with the 3rd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles in the Brecon Beacons, Wales.
During the interrogation of arrested directors, police got the name of Sagar alias Shaggy. However, by that time, Shaggy had left the country on October 5 before police could catch him.
He is reportedly undergoing a four-day exercise with the 3rd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles in the Brecon Beacons, Wales.
The fire broke out in a flat on the 20th floor.
Bored of living in your palatial bungalows and posh apartments and want something unique? Cheer up as you may soon have the option of 'buying' a house on the seas.
Rohit Shekhar's successful legal fight established the right of a child -- at any age -- to know his paternity.
Neelam Mahajan alleged her son was beaten up by Yuvraj Singh during his birthday party in his house on December 12.
Around 1.5 grams of cocaine, with international market price of about Rs 5,000, was found in his possession at the time of arrest.
A 23-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in a moving car after she was abducted by unidentified youths from the posh Raj Guru Nagar locality in Punjab's Ludhiana, police said on Saturday.
Singh said investigations into the kidnapping began with the interrogation of the security guard and the house maid.
What the chaos at Aishwarya Rai's Mumbai house is like, two days before the big wedding.
Raj Kumar Vaishya enrolled in NOU last year in September to achieve his dream of acquiring a master's degree
Though the markets falling under the posh A and B categories, which face a sure axe, remained closed, some of the major markets of the city like Sarojini Nagar, Cannaught Place and Janpath reopened, bringing back normalcy.
Nearly six months after it was brought into force, the ban on employing children in homes as 'domestic help' lies more or less still on paper.
Police said there is no terrorism element in the incident.
Faesal had no student visa, though he claimed that he was going to the United States for studies, the state government, through DIG, CKR, Srinagar, said in an affidavit.
Shah Rukh Khan's wife and son enjoy a drive in his posh BMW.
In a grim reminder that women in Delhi are unsafe, two unidentified men attempted to burn alive a fashion designer outside her residence in a posh south Delhi locality.
It is alleged that Singh has assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
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