New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Voting to elect the country’s 14th vice-president began here Tuesday with MPs from the two houses of parliament exercising their franchise to choose between United Progressive Alliance’s Hamid Ansari and National Democratic Alliance’s Jaswant Singh.
Ansari, who is expected to win the contest, is seeking re-election.
A member of the provincial assembly of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was among 20 people killed in a bomb blast Tuesday, a media report said.
The Maldives anti-corruption watchdog has ruled out any corruption in the deal to award the country's only operational international airport to Indian infrastructure giant GMR group, a media report said Tuesday.
At least 32 people were killed and over 50 injured in twin suicide bomb attacks at a mosque in the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said.
