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Pic for representational purpose only And you thought only you retire and only you have your tales to tell your young ones? Ask Zippo, Maple and Winnie, if you can dare to! Zippo is a male and Maple and Winnie are females — they are dogs but of sterner mettle. Today, after work, they will […]
Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani joined the Congress party in “spirit” and not “on paper”. The social activist-turned-journalist-turned-politician identifies himself as a social liberal and staunch Ambedkarite. Mevani is one of the leading reformists in the fields of land reforms and labour rights. “I did receive a proposal to join the Indian National Congress (INC), but […]
A probe into two gruesome tragedies that claimed the lives of more than 10 Covid-19 patients has found several lacunae in the hospitals’ efficiency and preparedness in handling emergencies. An inquiry conducted by Justice (Retired) DA Mehta’s Inquiry Commission into the fire incidents at two hospitals of Gujarat – Shrey Hospital in Navrangpura, Ahmedabad and […]
It is perhaps for the first time that Gujarat Chief Minister’s cabinet is home to first-timers. Of the 24 ministers inducted on Thursday, 12 are first time MLAs and as good as 21 have become ministers for the first time. This indicates a clean break from his predecessor Vijay Rupani’s ministry. No member from the […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in sync with his Saffron predecessors, has once again used Gujarat as his experimental base to implement a no-repeat theory. A similar theory was introduced by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, with the exception that he continued to be the Chief Minister while sacking his entire old cabinet and he introduced […]
In a first-of-its-kind ministerial formation, newly-appointed Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel axed all the ministers in the Vijay Rupali cabinet and brought in his own. The entire old cabinet, including ex-chief minister Vijay Rupani, was present for the swearing-in ceremony. Most of the ministers, barring Kiritsinh Rana, Rajendra Trivedi, Raghavji Patel, are first-time ministers and […]
As former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani exited his office in a surprise move last week, his entire staff was shown the door too. And now, with Bhupendra Patel taking his place, an entirely new team of the CMO – comprising Patel’s old hands – has been put in place before he takes the oath […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is never short of ambition and an election that’s not driven to win. Even as the BJP rules Gujarat comfortably since 1995, except for a brief exception in 1997, the party is very clear. The chief ministerial chair is not important. The party is. Ahead of the crucial Assembly elections […]
“I am urging all the villagers of India to not let the Brahmins enter your villages. I will talk to every other community so that we can boycott them. They need to send back to the bank of the Volga River,” said Nand Kumar Baghel, recently in Lucknow. The video immediately went viral on social […]
They may be royal, but their lives are often not royal fables. This is exactly what is happening in the 400-year-old princely state of Rajkot in Gujarat. The feud is most intriguing. The family is fighting over 20,000 crores of property. A princess is claiming her right as a daughter from her estranged brother. And […]
Calling the Centre’s National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP), which aims to unlock value in brownfield projects by engaging the private sector, a ‘clearance sale’, the Congress on Thursday hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that the move will wipe out an entire generation’s efforts. Congress party’s spokesperson Pawan Khera lashed out […]
There’s one thing that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are never short of is ambition. Even as the BJP remains staunchly settled in Gujarat since 2001, they take elections much more seriously than the main Opposition, the Congress party. With crucial Assembly elections in 2022, the Sangh and BJP are […]
In a shocking incident, the Statue of Unity has been found guilty of selectively editing and putting up a video of a Gujarat Congress MLA in a lame attempt to glorify Gujarat Government. Naushad Solanki, a Congress MLA from Dasada constituency went to visit the Statue of Unity recently. Being an MLA, the officials asked […]
The buzz in Gujarat amid the spyware revelations is that the now-global story of pillars of democracy being snooped upon via Israeli software could have had has its roots in Gujarat under Narendra Modi. In this context, a blog post by veteran journalist Rajiv Shah headlined ‘When phone tapping rumours were afloat in Gujarat among BJP […]
