Over 60 million people Wednesday voted in 64 Lok Sabha constituencies across seven states - the number higher than the 2009 average - in the second last round of a staggered election widely tipped to usher in a new government.
The CBI Tuesday arrested two officials of Delhi's civic agency MCD after they were caught taking bribe.
The allotment of tenders for maintenance and advertising of these public toilets is now raising a multi-crore stink, with the city's civic body and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the whole affair.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay Tuesday called on all sides to make greater efforts for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine crisis.
At least 20 people have died in a cholera outbreak in Nigeria's Plateau state, hospital officials said Tuesday.
Minority Affairs Minister K.Rahman Khan Tuesday backed giving reservation to Muslims, saying the community suffers from lack of education and scant represenation in government services.