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Ahmedabad: Aam Aadmi Party’s Gujarat chief ministerial candidate Isudan Gadhvi will contest the next month’s Assembly elections from Khambhalia seat in his home district of Devbhumi Dwarka, the party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal announced on Sunday. Kejriwal made this announcement through a tweet. “Isudan Gadhvi, who for years raised his voice for farmers, unemployed youth, […]

Hyderabad: Ponder this. The All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) 2019-20 report, brought out by the union Ministry of Education, says the number of private universities in country increased from 276 in 2015-16 to 407 in 2019-20. These are apart from over 130 private universities likely to be established in different States. Consider this […]

New Delhi:  The BJP on Thursday released its first list of 160 candidates for the two-phase elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly, fielding Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel from his constituency Ghatlodia and dropping a large number of sitting MLAs. Names of Hardik Patel, the face of Patidar agitation in the 2017 assembly polls who later […]

Surat: The window glass of the Vande Bharat Express in Gujarat was broken by some unidentified persons, with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on board, claimed party leader Waris Pathan on Monday. Pathan claimed that the AIMIM chief along with the party’s Gujarat state president Sabir Kabliwala and other party leaders were travelling in the ‘Vande […]

Hyderabad: In what is being seen as the other side of the much-hyped double engine governance promoted by the BJP, a few villages in Gujarat have decided to boycott the forthcoming elections to press their demands, including provision of basic amenities, drinking water, roads and even crop insurance. Joining the list of villages, which boycotted […]

The Gujarat High Court on Monday took suo motu cognizance of the Morbi bridge collapse and asked the state government to file a report within a week.

Padmashali Sangham has decided to launch a campaign demanding zero GST on handlooms in the Gujarat elections to be held next month.

The polling for the by-polls will take place on December 5 and the votes will be counted on December 8, coinciding with the result dates of the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections.

Hyderabad: TRS (now BRS) President and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is all set to launch a nation-wide movement against the BJP and expose its conspiracies to topple the democratically elected State governments, destabilise rival political parties and create hurdles for development. He will kickstart the journey by campaigning against the BJP in Gujarat and […]

Of the total 182 assembly seats in Gujarat, voting for 89 seats will be held on December 1 and the balance 93 seats on December 5.

Morbi: Out of nine persons arrested pertaining to the October 30 collapse of the century-old suspension bridge, killing 135 people, Gujarat’s Morbi Court on Wednesday has sent four people to police custody and remaining five into judicial custody till November 5. Of the four persons in police custody, two are managers of the Oreva company, […]

Hyderabad: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday alleged that AAP is contesting elections in Gujarat to help BJP. Claiming that the fight in Gujarat is between Congress and BJP, he said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) entered the fray to cut into Congress votes. He was addressing a news conference during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo […]

Ahmedabad: The Congress will take out the ‘Gujarat Parivartan Sankalp Yatra’ in five zones of the poll-bound state from Tuesday, during which 145 public meetings and 95 rallies will be held along the route covering more than 5,400 km. It will be launched from Vadgam, Bhuj, Somnath, Vadgam, Fagvel and Jambusar, party leaders said. The […]

Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday visit Morbi in Gujarat where 134 people were killed after a suspension bridge collapsed into the Machchhu river. Modi, who is on a visit to Gujarat ahead of the state Assembly polls due this year-end, on Monday paid tributes to those who died in Sunday’s bridge collapse. […]

In the last few years, the world has witnessed several such incidents. While sometimes, these led to the death of workers, at times, the collapse ended up killing hundreds of civilians.    

Kampala: Kuntaj Patel, a 24 year-old Indian businessman from Gujarat, has been allegedly shot dead by a police constable in Kisoro town of Uganda, local media reports said. Police constable Elioda Gumizamu, 21, a member of the Field Force Unit has been arrested after he stormed a hardware shop last week, where Patel worked, and […]

Deeply saddened by the reports of bridge collapse in Gujarat, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has written to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel to offer condolences.

The toll was confirmed to the media by Rajkot Range Inspector General of Police Ashok Yadav.

The bridge collapsed on Sunday evening, killing 141 people.

Morbi town will voluntarily observe a bandh on Monday to mourn the deaths of people who died in the incident.