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Gujarat’s coastline has been hit by at least two massive tsunamis, one about 1,000 years ago and another nearly 6,000 years ago. This is not folklore. It’s science, and the evidence has been sitting in beach sand all along. Researchers from MG Science Institute in Ahmedabad made this finding using a technique called Optically Stimulated […]
Porbandar is recognized not just for its notorious mafia past but as the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi—the apostle of nonviolence whose legacy still shapes India. Because Gandhi was fiercely opposed to alcohol, Porbandar, like the rest of Gujarat, has long borne the weight of official prohibition. For over six decades, even a legal permit holder […]
Gujarat factory owners have asked migrant workers to pack up and leave for their hometowns. This follows the cooking gas shortage, coupled with less demand for exports. From Morbi in Saurashtra to Surat in South Gujarat; the situation of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa is serious. In most cases, factory owners have […]
Six years after his 2019 resignation, Kannan Gopinathan still awaits government processing. Kannan Gopinathan handed in his papers in August 2019. His reason was unambiguous: the clampdown on Jammu and Kashmir after the scrapping of Article 370, and what he called the government’s throttling of free expression. For an IAS officer to resign on a […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday welcomed the passage of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill 2026 in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, saying that the country should run on “principle of equal laws”. After Uttarakhand, Gujarat became the second state to pass the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, 2026, on Tuesday, introducing a common […]
The Gujarat government has discontinued the weekly serving of sukhdi — a traditional Gujarati sweet made from wheat flour, jaggery and ghee — from the state’s government school mid-day meal programme, affecting nearly 38.5 lakh students enrolled in approximately 32,230 government schools across the state. The decision, taken under the Centre’s ‘Fit India’ initiative, removes […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the longest-serving head of government in the country, completing 8,931 days in office and surpassing the previous record held by Pawan Kumar Chamling of Sikkim. It is a record measured by the narrowest of margins—one day. But behind that single day lies nearly a quarter century of uninterrupted executive […]
Iran launched missile strikes late Saturday targeting the Israeli towns of Dimona and Arad, injuring more than 100 people in what Tehran described as retaliation for attacks on its nuclear facility at Natanz Nuclear Facility. Dimona, home to the sensitive Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, appeared to be a key target. According to reports, […]
For more than thirty years, the word “disturbed” has shaped where people in Gujarat can call home, who their neighbors are, and what communities look like. It’s not just a word—it’s a line drawn across lives and city maps. Now, the state government is signaling change—not just in language, but in the way people’s homes, […]
A woman inheriting property, a couple filing for divorce, or love birds registering a live-in relationship. Each belongs to a different religion. They must walk a different legal path in Gujarat. One bill wants to give them all the same road. The Gujarat government has introduced the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in the state legislative […]
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. […]
