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The victory charts for BJP stalwarts Amit Shah and Smriti Irani were no-brainers. It was the tussle between BJP nominee Balwantsinh Rajput and senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel that grabbed all eyeballs. 

Ahmed Patel, who is known to be the Congress party's most reliable crisis manager, was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha for the fifth term in a nail-biting contest in which he defeated Balwantsinh Rajput of the BJP.

Sanwar Lal Jat, a BJP MP from Ajmer and former Union minister, died in Delhi on 9 August. 

Chairman of Eenadu Group Ramoji Rao released the book in the presence of Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker K Sivaprasada Rao, his Telangana counterpart S Madhusudanachary and political analyst S Gurumurthy.

Justice Dipak Misra will have a tenure of nearly 14 months as the Chief Justice of India, as he is slated to retire on October 02, 2018.

Amit Shah was appointed the party chief in July 2014 following the induction of his predecessor Rajnath Singh into the Modi cabinet but the BJP's national council ratified the decision on August 9 that year.

The Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making body of the party, on Thursday passed a resolution on the 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement. 

The Congress Working Committee meeting began at party headquarters in the national capital on Thursday. 

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought response from five states on a contempt plea alleging non- compliance of order related to ensuring high security registration plates for all vehicles.

Justice Dipak Misra will take over from incumbent JS Khehar, who will retire on August 27.

The Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), ED's equivalent of a police FIR, was registered under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The helmets are being manufactured by a Kanpur-based company, MKU limited, Army sources said, adding they will be light weight and have better safety features.

Doklam is a disputed region between China and Bhutan. The dispute arose after Indian troops stopped the Chinese Army from building a road in the region in mid-June.

More than 62 per cent households in rural India have access to toilets while their usage stands at 91 per cent, till June, according to a survey.

In a stunning -but unsubstantiated- claim, a senior Chinese official said today that Bhutan has acknowledged that the Doklam area where the Indian and Chinese troops are engaged in a standoff does not belong to it.

Amid simmering border tension over Doklam, China's state-controlled media has warned the Narendra Modi government for ignoring the warnings from Beijing.

The Rajya Sabha was on Tuesday repeatedly adjourned over the issue of "two types" of currency notes.

The government is planning to install a 24X7 seamless virtual fence with sensors along the India-Pakistan border to curb infiltration bid by the neighbouring nation, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.

The cross-LoC trade on Srinagar- Muzaffarabad road resumed on Tuesday, more than two weeks after it was suspended following recovery of heroin and brown sugar from a truck coming from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Yadav, who continues to occupy the same seat in the front rows of opposition benches as he did before his party forged an alliance with the BJP in Bihar, showed enlarged copies of differently sized 500 rupee notes.​