Polling began Saturday for the third and penultimate phase of municipal elections in Jammu and Kashmir to seal the fate of 365 candidates in the fray across the state.

 Promising Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen settled for a silver medal after he lost the men's singles summit clash against Li Shifeng of China in straight games in the Youth Olympics here.

An unidentified militant was Saturday killed in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Facebook had originally said up to 50 million accounts were affected in a cyberattack that exploited a trio of software flaws to steal “access tokens” that enable people to automatically log back into the social network.

In a Dasara gift, the state government on Friday announced a 2% hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) for its employees.

The VHP Friday urged the Centre to build consensus on bringing a legislation to construct the Ram temple in Ayodhya, even though it expressed hope that a case on the matter pending in the Supreme Court would come to a finality in six months.

The coordination committee chairman Siddaramaiah has succeeded in uniting the Congress MLAs of Ballary district and district in-charge minister D.K. Shivakumar over the issue of choosing Congress candidate for the Ballary bypoll.

Even after Supreme court's ban on manual scavenging, the practice is still rampant in many parts of the country. But the BBMP which is boasting of adopting strict rules against manual scavenging remained a mute spectator on Friday evening as two workers were seen cleaning the drainage with bare hands.