The discharge pleas of Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case accused DG Vanzara and NK Amin got rejected by the Special CBI court on Tuesday. Former Gujarat DIG Vanzara and retired superintendent of police NK Amin had appealed for discharge after another accused PP Pandey was discharged in February asking for[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Gujarat health officials on Saturday said they have received reports about four children died after they were given measles-rubella vaccination. A Central investigating team has, however, ruled out any linkage between these deaths and the vaccination process. Deputy Commissioner, immunization, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, said: As per[Read More…]
Gujarat central city Vadodara has put a ban on the sale of panipuri in a bid to control waterborne diseases. City witnessed over 4,000 kg of panipuris being thrown away on Friday. This ban has been imposed due to its unhygienic method of preparation. Due to continuous heavy rains across[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday appointed Ashwin Kotwal the party’s new chief whip in the Gujarat assembly. A three-term legislator from Khedbrahma, Kotwal was made the deputy whip under Amit Chavda after the December 2017 assembly elections when the party bagged a significant 77 seats. With Chavda given[Read More…]
Hardik Patel has been sentenced two years of jail as Gujrat court has found him guilty of creating violence during the 2015 riots case linked to the Patel quota movement. He has been held guilty in the case of vandalizing the office of BJP legislator Rushikesh Patel in Visnagar three[Read More…]
Ahmedabad: There has been no action against former Gujarat BJP vice-president Jayanti Bhanushali by Gujarat police even after 48 hours of since the victim filed the complaint. The 21-year-old women from Surat had submitted an application, seeking registration of a rape case against Bhanushali to the police commissioner’s office on July[Read More…]
Yet another lash comes in for Rahul Gandhi-led Congress party in Gujarat, as Mahendrasinh Vaghela, the former Congress legislator and son of political heavyweight Shankersinh Vaghela, formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday. Mahendrasinh is a former Congress MLA who had quit the party last year in a rebellion[Read More…]
The Gujarat government recently launched a pilot and unique project, ‘School on Wheels’ for the children of salt pan workers. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani introduced the project saying, “The idea is to provide infrastructure and teaching facility as part of Right to Education (RTE) for children in the 6-14 age[Read More…]
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Former Gujarat BJP MLA Kanu Kalsaria, who had successfully spearheaded a huge public agitation against a Nirma cement plant in the state’s Mahuva, on Wednesday evening joined the Congress party after a meeting with party president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi. Kalsaria, who is a social activist and[Read More…]
In a bizarre incident, the Gujarat Police on Friday lodged an FIR against an “unknown ghost” in an attempted suicide case of a woman in Vadodara district. The incident was of Chokari village in Padra taluka of Vadodara where a young housewife attempted to commit suicide by pouring kerosene on her body[Read More…]
Jamnagar: Senior Congress legislator and OBC leader from Gujarat’s Saurashtra region Vikram Madam on Friday threatened to resign if the party failed to address several issues worrying him. His announcement, a few days before Congress President Rahul Gandhi visits Gujarat on July 16 and 17, comes less than a week[Read More…]
Vadodara/Ahmedabad: Three senior ruling BJP legislators from Vadodara district came out in the open late on Wednesday evening expressing their resentment against the State government and claimed more than a dozen others were with them, hours after Chief Minister Vijay Rupani flew out the country on a six-day tour. Three[Read More…]
Surat: Strong protests have started emerging in Gujarat against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream project of a bullet train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, with farmers in Surat district taking to the streets opposing acquisition of land for the purpose. More than 200 farmers from 15 villages drove down to the[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Wednesday said that Congress will not be able to win a single Lok Sabha seat from the state as the BJP will repeat the 2014 general elections results by winning all 26 seats in 2019. We will win all 26 seats in the[Read More…]
Ahmedabad: A debt-ridden businessman in Ahmedabad shot dead his wife and two daughters on Tuesday after an argument over sending the elder daughter to Australia for higher studies, police said. Dharmesh Shah, 50, owns a construction business and lived with his wife and daughters at an upmarket area of the[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Paresh Dhanani, the Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Assembly, on Tuesday alleged a major scam by the BJP government in the water conservation schemes carried out in the state since 2006 until recently. The Congress leader has alleged that thousands of crores of people’s hard earned money found its[Read More…]
Una (Gujarat): Four Dalit youngsters, who were flogged by self-styled cow vigilantes for skinning a dead cow in Gujarat in 2016, on Sunday embraced Buddhism along with their families and about 300 others, to protest against discrimination and atrocities on them. Balubhai Sarvaiya, whose three sons and their cousin were flogged[Read More…]
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Friday ordered lie detection, Narco Analysis and Brain Mapping tests on three family members of a 7-year-old girl who, according to her family, was allegedly subjected to repeated sexual assault by her teacher. The court order came after the lie detection and other tests were[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: A court in Gujarat’s Bharuch district on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old youth to death for raping and murdering a four-year-old boy. Judge S. Dave found Shambhu Padhiyar of Pilundra village guilty under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. In April 2016, Padhiyar lured the boy away with an[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Three persons, including the main perpetrator, involved in the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Surat have been arrested, the Gujarat government said on Friday. Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja told the media here that Gujarat Police arrested the key perpetrator from a village in[Read More…]
Bhavnagar: A Dalit man was killed in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district by some higher-caste persons for keeping and riding a horse, police said. Even as area residents claimed that tension prevailed in Timbi village in Umrala tehsil, police said three suspects have been detained from a nearby village and sought the help[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Two candidates each of the ruling BJP and opposition Congress were elected unopposed to as many vacant seats in the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat after their extra nominees opted out of the fray on the last date for withdrawal of nominations on Thursday. Union Ministers Purushottam Rupala and Masukh[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Lawmakers in the Gujarat Assembly on Wednesday came to blows when Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani raised the matter of the deaths of two children in the Asaram ashram in 2008 in Sabarmati. The ruckus led to the House being adjourned shortly after Question Hour by Speaker Rajendra Trivedi till[Read More…]
Vijay Rupani on Tuesday took oath as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second stint after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the state assembly elections for the sixth time in a row. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, along with other key leaders of the[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who will be in Gujarat on Saturday to attend a review meeting to analyse the party’s showing in the assembly elections, will start by visiting the Somnath Temple. During his three-day visit to the state, Gandhi will hold meetings with all the newly-elected MLAs and leaders[Read More…]
