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The 44 Gujarat Congress MLAs who were shifted to a resort on the outskirts of the city nine days ago fearing poaching by the BJP ahead of tomorrow's Rajya Sabha election, returned Ahmedabad in an early morning flight from Bengaluru, today. ....

Facing the toughest electoral battle of his career, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel scrounged for every vote as polling for three Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat progressed on Tuesday. BJP President Amit Shah and union minister Smriti Irani appeared set for an easy win.....

The Pakistani Army on Thursday resorted to unprovoked firing at Indian positions on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.....

Nirmala Sitharaman was named India's Defence Minister in a reshuffle-cum-expansion of the Union Cabinet by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 3 September. Piyush Goyal was awarded charge of the Indian Railways.....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river on Sunday, saying no other project in the world has faced so many hurdles as this "engineering miracle" which many people had "conspired to stop".....

Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, the government's second-most senior legal officer, on Friday said he has stepped down because he was not able to attend to his family and personal matters due to work. ....

Rising inflationary pressure and concerns over "fiscal slippage" prompted India's central bank, the RBI, on Wednesday to maintain its key lending rates.....

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday rejected the plea of Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain former MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging a clean chit by the Special Investigation Team to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other top officials in the 2002 Gujarat riots.....

The Gujarat High Court on Monday commuted to life imprisonment the capital punishment of 11 convicted for burning a Sabarmati Express coach near the Godhra railway station in Gujarat in 2002 which killed 59 persons. ....

Separatist guerrillas on Monday gunned down an Army officer in Jammu and Kashmir's Badgam district, police sources said.....