Rahul Gandhi was in Surat on Thursday to record his statement with the Surat magisterial court in ‘Modi surname’ defamation case filed by BJP MLA from Surat West, Purnesh Modi.
The Lord Jagannath rathyatra has been conducted every year for the past 143 years, with the exception of 2020 due to the pandemic restrictions.
Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Amit Chavda said Rahul would visit Surat on Thursday.
Paatil said in the affidavit that the petition was filed without verifying facts only to malign the party.
Districts like Junagadh, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Botad and those in south Gujarat like Surat also received heavy rainfall on Saturday.
The Delhi CM also mentioned that the AAP candidates will be contesting on all 182 seats in Gujarat. Kejriwal also inducted Gujarati news channel anchor Isudan Gadhvi to AAP during the press conference.
Even in Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani’s home turf Rajkot, the party displayed good show in the local body elections, becoming the party with second largest vote share.
The BJP in-charge for Gujarat, Bhupendra Yadav is on a three- day visit to the state and on the first day headed the core committee meeting held on Friday at ‘Shree Kamalam’, the party headquarters.
Leaders and workers of the Gujarat Congress staged demonstrations in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Bharuch, Palanpur and Vadodara as part of a nationwide call given by the party high command to protest against the high petrol and diesel prices.
They urged the police to lodge an FIR against Ramdev under relevant sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act and the Disaster Management Act (invoked in view of the COVID-19 pandemic).
The court of Justice Nirzar Desai on Friday issued a notice to the respondents, returnable on May 27.
The PM was in his home state to take stock of the situation in the three badly affected districts of Bhavnagar, Amreli, Gir-Somnath and the union territory of Diu after the devastation that was caused by the severe cyclonic storm.
The arrested inspector, Geeta Pathan, currently serves as a police inspector in Patan district of Gujarat, they said.
The benefits include Rs 25 lakh for the family if a worker dies due to the virus infection.
Altogether 61 coronavirus patients were shifted from the facility to other hospitals after the ”minor fire and smoke”, an official said.
The bypoll, necessitated due to the disqualification of legislator Bhupendrasinh Khant, was held on April 17.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) had doubled the overall bed capacity at hospitals in a month and half, and added more than 2,000 oxygen beds in the last 15 days alone.
On Sunday, of the total number of 220 Kumbh returnees tested at the station, 15 were found infected.
Hours after their mother’s demise, two doctors in Gujarat returned to the hospital to save lives amid the ongoing second Covid-19 wave. One of them was only following her mother’s words of wisdom, “There was no greater duty that they could perform”.
Gujarat has vaccinated over 10 million people or one crore people so far.
Gujarat is one of the states from where a high number of COVID-19 cases are being reported during the second wave of the pandemic.
The infant was born with the infection on April 1, as her mother had also contracted the disease, a statement issued by Diamond Hospital said.
The Gujarat government on Thursday decided to postpone class 10th and class 12th board exams in the state amid a surge in COVID-19 cases. The class 10 and 12 board exams in Gujarat are scheduled to take place from May 10 to May 25.
“People now think that they are at God”s mercy,” a division bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Bhargav Karia said while hearing a PIL, taken up suo motu (on its own), on the coronavirus situation in the state.
The state’s caseload stands at 3,42,026, including 4,746 deaths, while the recovery count rose to 3,12,151, or 91.27 per cent of the tally, after 2,525 people were discharged during the day, he said.