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Surat: A 14-year-old boy landed in a juvenile home after the police caught him with a country-made revolver in this Gujarat city, sources said on Saturday. Pratham (name changed), a resident of Pandesara area in Surat city, is said to have told police that he was addicted to crime web series. Watching an armed hero […]
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Ahmedabad: Bilkis Bano, a survivor of the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, has said the premature release of all the 11 convicts serving life sentence in a case related to her and seven family members, has shaken her faith in justice and left her numb. She has appealed to the Gujarat government to “undo this […]
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New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the release of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and said the entire country is seeing the difference between his words and deeds. He asked what message is being sent out to the women of the country through such decisions. […]
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Himatnagar: After a nine-day fight for life in a Gujarat hospital, a newborn, who was buried alive by her parents and rescued by a farmer, breathed her last at the Himatnagar government hospital on Thursday morning. Government hospital Superintendent Dr. Ashish Katarkar told the local media that Wednesday night she developed multiple problems, though doctors tried […]
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Ahmedabad: With seven more people succumbing, the death toll in the hooch tragedy in Ahmedabad and Botad districts of Gujarat climbed to 24 on Tuesday morning, police said. According to Bhavnagar Range Inspector General of Police Ashok Kumar Yadav, of the deceased 15 were from Botad districts, while nine belonged to Ahmedabad rural areas. The […]
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Vadodara: A goods train derailed near Mangal Mahudi railway station in Gujarat’s Dahod district on Monday, causing disruption in the rail traffic movement Around 27 trains, including Rajdhani and August Kranti were being diverted, said railway officer. Sixteen coaches of the train derailed between Mangal Mahudi – Limkheda stations because of which the power supply […]
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Hyderabad: TRS working president and Minister KT Rama Rao slammed the Narendra Modi government at Centre for not coming to the rescue of rain-battered Telangana. He stated that the Central government was treating Telangana like an enemy and taking revenge on the State without sanctioning funds on one pretext or the other, with political motives. […]
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Ahmedabad: Heavy downpour continued in various parts of Gujarat on Tuesday and six people died in rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours, raising the toll to 69 since June 1, officials said. A total of 27,896 people were evacuated from flood-affected areas and 18,225 of them remained in shelters while the others have returned […]
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New Delhi: Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, the Congress has appointed segment-wise observers in all the 26 parliamentary constituencies. A total of 37 leaders, including MLAs from various states, have been drafted to the party work. The leaders are mostly from Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The Congress has held meetings in Delhi to […]
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Ahmedabad: With just a few months left for the Gujarat Assembly election, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday urged the Gujarati people to vote for AAP saying ‘those who are not satisfied with BJP should vote for us’. “We are not here to engage in dirty politics or corruption. We are […]
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Ahmedabad: Commuting will be easier in Gujarat as works of 34 national highways at a cost of Rs 3,760.64 crore has been approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said the state Roads and Housing Minister Purnesh Modi. Out of Rs 3,760.64 crore, Rs 2,511.10 crore will be spent on the construction of roads while Rs […]
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Mumbai: Two suspected turncoat Shiv Sena MLAs made a dramatic escape from the rebels’ camp – led by senior Minister Eknath Shinde and others who had pitched tent in a five-star hotel in Surat, Gujarat – and reached Maharashtra safely in the past 24 hours. The Sena MLAs who ‘escaped’ are: Kailas Patil from Osmanabad […]
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Mumbai/Surat: Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Shiv Sena strongman Eknath Shinde plunged the ruling alliance in the State into a political crisis on Tuesday as he rebelled against his party and landed in a Surat hotel along with some Sena MLAs, putting a huge question mark on the stability of the two-and-a-half-years old MVA dispensation. Though […]
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Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met his mother Heeraben Modi at her residence in Gandhinagar on her 100th birthday. PM Modi tweeted this morning, “Took blessings of my mother today as she enters her 100th year.” Prime Minister arrived in Gandhinagar on Saturday morning. On the occasion of his mother’s birthday, PM Modi […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana continues to dominate the country in various areas of economic activity, demolishing the myth created by BJP that the so-called ‘Double Engine’ growth model would work wonders for States. The youngest State, in its latest achievement, leads the country’s charts in Stamps Duty and Registration Charges (SD and RC) revenue collections, recording a […]
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Botad: In a shocking incident a man raped and robbed a 75-year-old woman here on the pretext of helping her to get widow pension, said police on Friday. The police said that the man, identified as Hasmukh Devipujak, took the senior citizen to a deserted place where he raped her and then fled away with […]
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Ahmedabad: After creating a nationwide buzz with her announcement that she would be marrying herself, Vadodara resident Kshama Bindu “preponed” the event and tied the knot with herself three days before the scheduled date, she said on Thursday. Bindu, 24, said she performed the ‘sologamy’ (self-marriage), the ‘first in the country’, at her house in […]
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New Delhi: Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has issued a chilling warning of carrying out ‘suicide bombings’ in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat in a bid to take avenge of the insult to the Prophet Mohammed. “The saffron terrorists should now await their end in Delhi, Bombay, UP and Gujarat. They should find refuge […]
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Hyderabad: Corporate giants GMR and Adani Group have acquired the Telangana and Gujarat franchises respectively in the Ultimate Kho Kho League (UKKL), which is set to launch in this year with an aim to promote the local sport. Promoted by Amit Burman, chairman of Dabur Group, in collaboration with Kho Kho Federation of India (KKFI), […]
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By Krishank Manne After a visit to Hyderabad and Chennai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 28 landed in Gujarat to inaugurate the world’s first Nano Urea Liquid plant. Last April, Modi visited Gujarat to launch projects worth Rs 20,000 crore, including the laying of a foundation stone for the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine, […]
