After the exit polls suggested Modi wave in Uttar Pradesh and BJP making noteworthy gains in Uttarakhand and Manipur, while retaining Goa on Thursday, the state BJP seems to be in mood for early polls in Gujarat to continue the victory trend. BJP national president Amit Shah, accompanied by Chief[Read More…]
The Gujarat government has proposed an enormous 80 per cent boost in salaries and perks for the CM and ministers in the 2017-18 budgets from the 2016-17 budget estimates. While in the 2016-17 budget estimation, the Gujarat government made provisions of Rs 3.21 crore for salary expenses of the chief[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to his native state Gujarat, took a helicopter ride to the famous Somnath Temple to offer prayer on Wednesday. Further, the Prime Minister will address a public meeting near Triveni Sangam. On Tuesday, PM Modi laid the foundation stone of[Read More…]
In an alarming episode, a Dalit sarpanch in Gujarat’s Amreli district was allegedly killed by three persons, belonging to an upper caste community. The accused were against his election to the post, said police. The accused are yet to be detained. The 25-years-old Jaysukh Madhad, the sarpanch of Varasda village[Read More…]
The Anti-Terrorists Squad of Gujarat Police on Sunday detained two brothers who were home-based terrorists said to be working for Pakistan’s ISI. Police said, as per the preliminary information, accused Waseem Ramodiya and Naeem Ramodiya were planning a terror strike at a temple on a hill in Chotila in Surendranagar[Read More…]
The last Budget session of the 13th Gujarat Assembly will start from Monday. The session is likely to be tempestuous with the opposition raising issues like the Patidar reservation agitation, the Naliya “gangrape” case and alleged police brutality on the farmers in Sanand. The session is also significant as[Read More…]
Crowd pelted stones and indulged in arson on Monday at Godadara locality in Surat after the severed head of a calf was found on the road, police told media. “Severed head of a calf was found on the road in Godadara locality on city outskirts today morning following which people[Read More…]
Aiming to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary (January 30), the Gujarat education department asked its teaching and non-teaching staff to wear khadi at least once a week. In this regard, the Gujarat education department, which has over two-and-a-half lakh staff members, has passed a resolution. Ironically, on December[Read More…]
The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Surat-based financer Kishore Bhajiawala on money laundering charges. He is accused of illegal conversion of ₹ 1 crore old notes into new, using 1,000 fake IDs. As per reports, “Jignesh Kishorebhai Bhajiawala (41) is under arrest as per provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering[Read More…]
BJP government in Gujarat faces a new problem lately. Audio clips of random phone calls to ministers, from people seeking answers on what they considerytp be an integral agenda to them, are going viral on social media. And this has only added to the government’s discomfiture. BJP government image of[Read More…]
A 15-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and confined in a farm pit for over three weeks as she was raped repeatedly by a teenager at Kotda Nayani village of Morbi district in Gujarat before she was freed earlier this month, police said on Tuesday. 19-year-old, Naresh Solanki, was booked for[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother, Heeraben, visited a bank at her village in Gandhinagar to exchange the old notes on Tuesday afternoon. She was accompanied by her relatives. She entered the bank premises in a wheel chair, filled the mandatory form, put her thumb impression on the form and exchanged[Read More…]
Data released by the Census of India reveals that life expectancy in Gujarat is 68.7 years which is abouut 0.8 years higher than that of the country as a whole. Officials said that life expectancy in the state has increased by nearly 20 years over four decades. In Gujarat on an average, 12 lakh[Read More…]
An RSS affiliate outfit carried out a ‘shudhikalasham’ or ‘purification’ ceremony in an Udupi temple after numerous Dalits gathered for a rally organised by Dalit activist and organiser of the `Una Chalo’ movement in Gujarat, Jignesh Mevani. The outfit, Yuva Brigade led by an 86-year-old seer of the Pejewara Mutt,[Read More…]
Days ahead of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s October 16 rally in Surat, banners carrying his photographs with Burhan Wani, Hafiz Saeed and Osama bin Laden, terming them ‘heroes of Pakistan’, appeared at different locations across the city on Thursday. While AAP blamed BJP, the saffron party denied it had anything[Read More…]
Gujarat Police on Thursday said Surat police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) arrested two persons for allegedly assisting an al Qaeda suspect in making a passport using fake documents. “Syed Parvez, a driver and Sheikh Gulam Mohammad, a property dealer, were arrested late night by SOG after their names and signature[Read More…]
Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani’s debut on social media proved to be major disaster on Friday. Not only did he not respond to a single question in the stipulated time from 10 am to 12.30 pm, but replied the same answer to many different questions. He hosted a ‘Twitter townhall’ where[Read More…]
Another shocking incident of ‘cow-hooliganism’ has surfaced from Gujarat. If Una flogging was not enough to cause enough outrage, controversy has erupted over the death of a 29-year old man on Friday after he was allegedly thrashed by so-called cow vigilantes. A footwear salesman, Mohammed Ayyub Shaikh, died due to head injuries[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a doctor of a private hospital in Gujarat has been arrested for allegedly raping a dengue patient in the ICU earlier this week. The woman, who is being treated in the Apollo hospital in Gandhinagar, was allegedly raped twice on Sunday and Monday. She has alleged[Read More…]
