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Una Flogging Case: A Nine-Year Journey For Hollow Justice For decades, Gujarat has projected itself as a model of economic growth and governance, often referred to as the “Gujarat Model.” The Una flogging in 2016 had sharply disrupted that narrative. It exposed a dissonance between economic progress and social justice, drew sustained national and international […]
He wanted to go to America for business. It did not go as planned. The agents promised him America. What they delivered was something else entirely. He saved, paid up and trusted the wrong people. The American dream ended in deportation. Samir (not his real name) who was deported from the US has filed a criminal […]
More than two lakh children in Gujarat are malnourished across 20 of the state’s 34 districts, the state government has informed the Assembly — a stark reminder that economic growth has not translated into adequate nutrition for many of the state’s youngest citizens. Responding to questions raised by MLAs during Question Hour, Women and Child […]
The Great BJP Mughal Erasure Project The Bharatiya Janata Party has an obsession or rather an allergy. They are convinced that anything bearing the word Mughal must gradually disappear from India’s public landscape. Across the country, roads are being renamed, cities rebaptised, railway stations rechristened and monuments rebranded in what increasingly resembles an ideological exercise […]
In a major achievement by the Reliance Group, they are all set to build a new clean energy based refinery project, this time in the United States. Reliance Industries also runs the world’s biggest refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat in India. Gujarat origin Ambanis who own Reliance led by Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is all set […]
The deaths of two B.Com students in Surat have raised troubling questions after investigators found that the two friends had searched an Artificial Intelligence platform for information on suicide before they were found dead inside a temple complex bathroom. The case drew a swift reaction from Elon Musk, businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership […]
It’s been three years since a 23-year-old Indian student Jaahnavi Kandula died in Seattle. Her family in Andhra Pradesh is still numbed by the shock. Jaahnavi’s younger sister Meghana Kandula, 24, said the memories of her sister continue to haunt the family. But, while the world moved on, the family is not even allowed to […]
Delivering a sharp rebuke to global steel giant ArcelorMittal, the Gujarat High Court on Friday called the company’s ₹3-crore compensation offer “peanuts” while questioning how it took more than a decade to comply with forest clearance conditions imposed in 2013. The Court warned that if the company wants to retain the forest land, it will […]
FBI’s Most Wanted: The Gujarati Who Allegedly Preyed On America’s Elderly He pumped fuel. He worked at cash registers. He stocked store shelves. A healthy, clean life on the surface. But the FBI uncovered something sinister in his operations. This man was stealthily managing a team that duped elderly Americans of their savings. Kalpesh Patel, […]
There is a particular kind of evening that only a birth can produce where old grudges are forgotten. People who have said unkind things about each other in public find themselves laughing at the same table. We are not talking about Holi here. Several Congress leaders attended the function. Hardik Patel had one of those evenings recently. […]
He ferries passengers on a bike but barely earns enough to sustain himself. On an average a Rapido driver in Ahmedabad makes less than Rs 25,000 a month. But one Gujarati driver has been arrested following his involvement in a 550 crore scam. This 28-year-old Rapido driver has ended up at the centre of one […]
After two decades of ruling Bihar like a permanent fixture, Nitish Kumar has suddenly “remembered” a long-cherished dream — to sit in the Rajya Sabha. The timing, unsurprisingly, is immaculate. Putting speculation to rest, the JD(U) chief announced on X that he intends to resign as Chief Minister and move to the Rajya Sabha, completing […]
The message from Gujarat today is blunt and unmistakable: investors receive incentives, owners receive protection, management receives compliance, and workers receive longer hours, weaker rights, and police batons when they protest. Industrial peace here is not built on justice or negotiation. It is enforced through exhaustion and fear. Over 20 workers at Larsen & Toubro’s […]
Am back home after a small break. And no—what hit me was not the traffic chaos, the cows on the road or the relentless honking. It was the air. We Indians do not need an AQI app to tell us that something is wrong. A heaviness in the chest, a faint burn in the throat. […]
Hate speech in India is no longer a by-product of politics—it has become a deliberate instrument of power. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party has systematically turned religious polarisation into a governing strategy, targeting minorities to consolidate votes, silence dissent, and normalise discrimination. What was once coded or dog-whistle rhetoric is now […]
The United States has paused immigrant visa processing for 75 countries in an effort to crack down on applicants deemed likely to become a public liability. “Immigrant visa processing from 75 countries will be paused while the State Department reassesses immigration processing procedures to prevent the entry of foreign nationals who would take welfare and […]
Gujarat’s Illegal Migration Web Exposed: Mehsana Family Kidnapped in Libya While Chasing Europe Dream The kidnapping of a Mehsana couple and their three-year-old daughter in Libya has laid bare the dangerous and largely unregulated illegal migration networks operating out of Gujarat, a state otherwise projected as prosperous, progressive and economically secure. The family is being […]
Former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma’s conviction in a money-laundering case on Saturday has once again reopened one of Gujarat’s most politically sensitive bureaucratic battles — the long-running dispute between the Sharma brothers and the state’s top leadership during the years when Narendra Modi was chief minister. The Special PMLA court in Ahmedabad sentenced Sharma to […]
In a stinging judgement reclaiming democracy, the Gujarat High Court has shredded the Ahmedabad Police’s years-long practice of imposing back-to-back Section 144 orders — calling the state’s conduct “arbitrary, unjustified, and violative of fundamental rights”. The message from the bench seems to be blunt:Gujarat Police has no business treating an emergency law as a permanent […]
“They are turning humans into machines.” A teacher in Gujarat reportedly told his family before taking his own life, protesting the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state. His suicide note left a chilling account of mental stress. Today, Usha Indrasinh Solanki fainted after complaining of dizziness at work at the Pratap School. She […]
