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500 poor patients exploited in what was was to be 25-year trial period. In an unprecedented scandal involving politicians, pharmaceutical companies, and a leading government hospital, a massive clinical trial scam has come to light in Gujarat. Over 500 poor patients were unknowingly subjected to unauthorised and illegal medical trials. At the heart of the […]
In what practitioners and believers of Gandhian philosophy describe as a sad, painful decision, the Supreme Court on Tuesday (April 1) dismissed a petition filed by Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, challenging the Gujarat BJP government’s decision to revamp and redevelop the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. The project has been handed over to Bimal […]
The occasion dates back to 2007. Sunita Williams of Gujarat origin sought to visit her home state. Williams, accompanied by her father, arrived on a personal visit. The response from the then chief minister Narendra Modi was less than cordial. “Kaun Sunita (Sunita who)?” he reportedly asked, dismissing the astronaut, now showered with international acclaim. It […]
Insensitive deportation of Indians is a humanitarian crisis which needs global intervention I fondly remember my time as a student in the US where I was fortunate enough to receive a full scholarship. Besides deepening my academic rigour, I had come to realise what made the US a great nation. The US lived the values […]
More skeletons are tumbling out of the Khyati Multispeciality Hospital where two patients died after undergoing an angioplasty procedure. A FIR has been registered against the hospital which apparently does not even have the required operational licences. The hospital director Kartik Patel had gone to Australia for a holiday and he has been summoned back […]
She believes in the harbinger of hopes. Small pebbles, smiling kids, crops swaying in an open field. And her pink saree. Her pink saree is one such omen. “Not only is it my favourite saree, I wear it to all my favourite places,” Geniben Thakor says, adding that it did not cost her beyond Rs […]
In Gujarat, it is not the BJP that wins. It is Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So confident is the BJP that it began its experiment of dropping sitting MPs by droves and giving a chance to new faces, many times political novices who went to win with handsome margins. In 2014 when Narendra Modi then […]
Valsad in South Gujarat is a parliamentary constituency that is known for one particular reason. Whichever political party wins Valsad Loksabha election gets to rule India. Ever since the first parliamentary election of India, it has been observed that Valsad is the bellwether seat of India. Today on Tuesday, Valsad in Gujarat polled the highest voting […]
Jai Shri Ram, says Mukesh Dalal and he would not stop till he acknowledged. Sure. Lord Ram must be laughing at him with all his blessings. He was contesting the Surat Loksabha election on the BJP ticket but following a slight signature glitch in the papers of Congress candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, Mukesh Dalal has been […]
Because it is Gujarat, the latest comment by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that flaunting and eating meat during the Hindu holy month of sawan (called chaitra in Gujarati) is being lapped up as a yet another bold stand by the unstoppable prime minister. Food fascism in Gujarat is not new. Gujaratis are absolutely okay doing business and selling or […]
The Gujarat BJP has never had it this complicated. The Party is now seriously ruminating to replace Rajkot Loksabha candidate amidst fear of losing vital Kshatriya votes in Gujarat. The BJP won all 26 Loksabha seats in Gujarat in 2019 and wants to repeat the feat. But Kshatriyas in Gujarat are up in arms against […]
Those who attacked international Muslim students on Gujarat University campus were not hostelites but local youth who barged into the A block which housed these foreign students. Surprisingly, what began as an internal hostel clash between two groups is now snowballing into a case of Islamophobia. So far five youths have been arrested by the […]
Now that the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress have announced an electoral alliance, all eyes are on the Bharuch Loksabha seat in Gujarat. There are 26 Loksabha seats in Gujarat. Currently, all 26 are with the BJP. As per the AAP-Congress alliance, two seats in Gujarat, Bharuch and Bhavnagar, have been given to Arvind […]
This resource-rich State in Central India is one of the fastest developing States of India. Bhupesh Baghel of Congress is seeking a second term. There are 90 seats in Chhattisgarh and 46 seats are required to form a majority government. Bhupesh Baghel is known for his governance, administrative skills, innovative welfare schemes and patience. Before […]
Women and Cadila Pharma owner Rajiv Modi, a known Gujarat-based pharmaceutical unit, always has had an uneasy relationship. Elena (not her real name), a Bulgarian woman working as a personal assistant to Cadila CMD Rajiv Modi has accused him of sexual harassment. The woman earlier had written an application to the local Vastrapur police but […]
The Gujarat Police has arrested an executive engineer, albeit a fake one who flaunted his government credentials and embezzled roughly Rs 4.15 crore for “tribal welfare”. He gathered the money for 93 plus tribal welfare schemes. He had also opened up his government office in Chhota Udepur district of Gujarat. In the recent past, Kiran […]
Gujarat has a bad history of fakes and impersonation. After the infamous Kiran Patel case, where an Ahmedabad resident was caught while he continued to pose as Additional Director (strategy and campaigns ) associated with the Prime Minister’s Office; one more fake PMO official has now been booked by the CBI. This man, identified as […]
Remember the soft-spoken, erudite Joe, aka Penn Badgley, in the Netflix bestseller “You”? Or back home, the absolutely average middle-aged, rustic Vijay Varma in Dahaad? The Cyber Cell of Gujarat police has finally arrested a similar murderer, an absolute, rigid criminal, a much-below-average-looking middle-aged man who has no remorse for killing his wife, Sajni, on […]
As if 12 cases in 15 years are not enough, now Gujarat cadre former IAS officer Pradip Sharma has now been sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for possessing a cell phone in Palara jail in Kutch. A raid by local authorities reportedly discovered a cell phone in Pradeep Sharma’s barrack along with several numbers written […]
If you wanted to know Gujarat, the real Gujarat it was not possible not to have “encountered” Achyut Yagnik. Outsiders often mistook him for an academician interested in just the socio-political and cultural aspects of Gujarat. But those few who regularly kept in touch with him and later became friends knew that Achyut Yagnik was […]
