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The Apex Court has stayed an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to phase out all public transport vehicles with BS-IV (Bharat Stage) engines and below in the next 6 months. A bench of Justice S K Kaul and Justice Abhay S Oka issued notice to the parties in the case and sought their […]
Saffron awashed Gujarat will be stamped saffron at chief minister elect Bhupendra Patel’s swearing-in ceremony scheduled for Monday, Dec 12. PM Modi is expected to arrive later tonight at Ahmedabad and will retire for the day at Gandhinagar Raj Bhavan. MHA Amit Shah and chief ministers of other BJP-ruled states are also expected to be […]
Gujarat Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 182 winning candidates in the Gujarat 2022 Assembly Elections. This time, 22% winning candidates have criminal cases registered against them, 16% candidates have serious criminal cases (rape, murder etc) and 83% candidates are crorepati candidates. One of the most […]
The natives of the West Zone and South Zone are able to undergo less water supply on Sunday. The Jaspur and Kotarpur water treatment plants have decreased the fresh water supply due to the ongoing renovation of the Narmada Canal from these water plants fulfilling the need for raw water. The water is becoming more […]
Just when the Supreme Court is hearing petitions on the need for reforms in the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners (ECs), a private member’s Bill has been introduced in Rajya Sabha which seeks formation of a committee headed by the Chief Justice of India to select the ECs. The Constitution […]
BJP’s record sweep of 156 seats is set to face its first trial. The new BJP government under CM Bhupendra Patel will have to walk a tightrope where it comes equilibrium between regions, castes, age and competence. Here’s a quick list of some probables in the seventh BJP government in Gujarat. Harsh Sanghavi: An MLA […]
On Saturday, Union Minister of Road Transport Nitin Gadkari announced the construction of five greenfield access control expressways, one of which will connect Delhi and Mumbai and be nearly complete by December. He predicted that once the road is operational, the distance between the financial capital and the national capital will be covered in 12 […]
The Admission Committee for Professional Postgraduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPPGMEC) on Thursday declared that the procedure of postgraduate medical and dental courses for 2022-23 has been deduced. The committee notified that a total of 101 state quota seats are empty in MD, MS and Diploma courses. There are only seven vacant seats in MD. There […]
Amid rising concerns pertaining to cases of mutually consenting ‘romantic relationships’ falling under the purview of the POCSO Act, the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud opined that the legislature should consider growing concerns relating to the age of consent under the 2012 Act, which is 18 years. The CJI was delivering the keynote address […]
Viral Gadhvi, the police inspector of the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) of Rajkot city police who is placed under suspension, and Upendra Jograna, a former sub-inspector with the Rajkot Crime Branch, were booked Thursday for allegedly restraining an Unjha businessman wrongfully in Gujarat’s Rajkot, torturing and trying to force him to surrender a property […]
Ashok Gehlot, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, joined the Congress party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra on Saturday along with other party members. From the village of Rangpuria in Rajasthan’s Bundi district, the padayatra was resumed. “Cleanliness warriors, and sweepers are also joining the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. #BharatJodoYatra There is a journey of every class, there is […]
Ashok Gehlot, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, stated on Friday that the country should be proud of itself for holding the G-20 presidency and that all prime leaders who have led India since its independence have contributed to that success. He claimed that every prime minister since India’s independence had helped the country prosper. He […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all ready to form the government in Gujarat for the seventh straight term on December 12. Party. Bhupendra Patel will take oath as chief minister again, along with 20 other cabinet ministers. Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel on Friday submitted his resignation to Governor Acharya Devvat after BJP observed […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video meeting of the Governors and Chief Minister of States and LT Governors of Union Territories, to discuss aspects relating to India G20 presidency. Prime Minister Modi stated that India’s G20 presidency belongs to the entire nation, and is a good opportunity to showcase the country’s strengths. PM Modi […]
A 40-year-old man was remanded to four-day police custody for allegedly raping and killing an 8-year-old girl in Surat. While her relatives protested in the Katargam neighbourhood calling for the culprit to be given the death penalty. The girl was lured by the man on December 7 while she was playing outside her home, according […]
Dropping from 59 percent, the success rate of women candidates in the 2022 Gujarat Assembly elections, which recorded 40 female candidates from all four political parties, reduced to 37.5 percent. Only 15 women candidates made it to the House this time. Among these 15 newly elected women MLAs, 14 won from the BJP, which had […]
BhartPe has filed a criminal suit against its former MD and co-founder Ashneer Grover and his family, seeking up to ₹ 88.67 crore in damages for alleged cheating and embezzlement of funds. The suit, running into 2,800 pages, alleges that Grover, his wife Madhuri Jain and other family members created fake bills, enlisted fictitious vendors […]
A meeting of the newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs in Gujarat began in Gandhinagar on Saturday to choose a new legislative party leader, who will take over as the next chief minister of the state. The meeting took place at the BJP’s state headquarters ‘Kamalam’. The meeting to pick a new leader is said […]
Taking “moral responsibility” for the party’s “unprecedented loss” in the Assembly Elections, the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Gujarat, Raghu Sharma (64) has submitted his resignation to AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge. In October 2021, the AICC leadership entrusted Sharma, the then Rajasthan health minister, with the responsibility of Gujarat. Shortly after in November 2021, […]
