Voters queued outside polling stations in India's Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to vote in the first provincial election being held in a decade in the Himalayan region that has grappled with years of militant violence.

Voting in the first phase of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will take place today. The 24 assembly constituencies across seven districts of the Union Territory will vote for the first time in an assembly election in 10 years.

Modi visits Indian-controlled Kashmir on local election campaign amid massive security - India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the main city in Himalayan Kashmir to campaign for his party i