Anticipating a fractured mandate, Indian Opposition parties, including the Congress, strong regional and caste-based parties and the much weakened Communists, are trying to cobble together a working post-poll coalition...

For Sunil Bhat, a 47-year-old Kashmir Pandit, returning to Kashmir, his home, is ruled out. An employee in a private firm, Bhat was only 18 when militants rose against Indian...