Counting of votes began on Wednesday at various poll booths in Pakistan where polling was over, media reports said.

 The Election Commission on Wednesday said 5.88 lakh units of VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) have been produced so far and the remaining 10.27 lakh units would be procured by November, allowing it the time for making pre-poll preparations for the 2019 general elections.

Amid a row as various sections of people, including from the film industry, writing to the Kerala government that Mohanlal should not be invited as the Chief Guest to the annual state film awards, an invite was extended to him Wednesday and he has accepted it.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said his government is ready to protect everyone - man or cow.

Famous French security researcher, who goes by the name of Elliot Alderson, claimed on Wednesday that identity data of nearly 9,000 people who logged into the Jharkhand government's portal is available in the open.

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths raided on the houses of two officers including a joint director of a department on Wednesday and unearthed property disproportionate to their known sources of income worth crores.

Indian exports are expected to rake up healthy growth rates in the coming months and is likely to touch $350 billion by end of the current financial year, Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Wednesday.

 Declaring his intention to soon visit Ayodhya and Varanasi, Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said he was prepared to accept the 'One Nation, One Election' formula propounded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), provided the Prime Minister, all Chief Ministers and ministers keep off electioneering.