Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off his campaign for the Maharashtra assembly elections, targeting Congress for corruption and anti-Hindu actions.

India agendas' of the Congress leaders in their speeches abroad, without naming that party’s leader Rahul Gandhi, who is facing flak from the ruling dispensation for his remark in the US on scrapping

The Congress has allied with Farooq Abdullah's National Conference, which favours talks with Pakistan and restoration of Article 370.

Security was tight on Wednesday as a phased election for choosing a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir opened in the first such vote since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the disputed region of its special status five years ago.

It is the first such vote since India's government stripped the disputed region of its special status five years ago.