Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi announced on Wednesday that the electronic voting machines (EVM) will carry photos of the candidates in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections....

Bihar leaders, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, RJD chief Lalu Prasad and senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday welcomed the announcement of state assembly polls....
A global rally sponsored by the Chinese government's reforms and expected stimulus coupled with the union cabinet's approval of spectrum trading, gold bonds and hike in dearness allowance buoyed Indian equity markets on Wednesday. ...

Highlights of the two gold schemes approved at a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi: ...

Bihar will go for a five-phased election for its 243-member assembly between October 12 and November 5, with 6.68 crore people eligible to exercise their franchise, the Election Commission said on Wednesday. The counting of votes will take place on November 8....
India on Wednesday approved a new sovereign gold bond scheme, as also a monetisation scheme to incentivise people to park their gold assets in a paper format and earn interest, while seeking to productively use vast amounts of this idle metal in the economy....
India on Wednesday approved the much-awaited spectrum trading norms for telecom companies, so that this scarce resource can be put to optimal use, Communications and IT Minsiter Ravi Shankar Prasad said here. ...
The union cabinet on Wednesday approved an additional dearness allowance (DA) of six percent for central government employees from July 1. ...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said the state's first Global Investor Meet has exceeded the investment target of Rs.100,000 crore. ...
The Pakistani Army resorted to unprovoked firing at Indian positions on Wednesday on the line of control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu region. ...