Mondays With Manjul, November 14

Gujarat Elections: AAP Leader Isudan Gadhvi Will Contest From Khambhalia 

Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections, Isudan Gadhvi, will contest from the Khambhalia constituency. The AAP’s supremo, Arvind Kejriwal, took to Twitter to make the announcement and stated, “Isudan Gadhvi, who raised his voice for years for farmers, unemployed youth, women, businessmen, will contest from Jam Khambhalia! Gujarat […]

Haren Pandya’s Wife Writes Protest Letter to CR Paatil

Former Minister of State for Home Affairs late Haren Pandya’s wife Jagrutiben Pandya has written to BJP demanding strict action against Ellisbridge MLA Rakesh Shah. Shah compared Pandya’s vote share with his current vote share. In the letter to the BJP state president CR Patil and party in-charge city president Paresh Lakhani, Jagruti Pandya demanded […]

Gujarat Elections: Solanki Brothers to Contest 6th Assembly Polls on BJP Ticket

Purushottam Solanki (61), former fisheries minister and strongman leader of the Koli community, and his brother Heera (58) will contest their sixth straight assembly elections together. The BJP has given tickets to both from Bhavnagar Rural and Rajula constituencies respectively. Rajula has 65,000 Koli votes, while Bhavnagar Rural has 85,000 votes. In 2017, the senior […]

PM Modi’s Diet: 2-3 kg Gaalis Daily

Ostensibly targeting the TRS ( now renamed BRS) and it’s leader Chandrasekhar Rao, Narendra Modi placed himself into the victim’s box by saying that he is being abused daily. While speaking to the BJP workers at Hyderabad, the prime Minister said he is made to consume  “do kilo, dhai kilo, teen kilo gaali” (two, two-and-a-half, […]

Solanki’s AAP U-Turn; Back In BJP

In Gujarat, political equations are changing day by day. Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Kesarisinh Solanki left the party two days ago as BJP did not give him a ticket. Yesterday he joined the Aam Aadmi party, as AAP gave him a ticket. Today the MLA is back again with Bharatiya Janata Party. It is worth […]

It’s A Girl For Bipasha And Karan

The adorable B-Town couple, Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover welcome their first child – a girl, after six years of their marriage on Saturday, November 12, 2022. They tied the knot in 2016 after dating for almost a year. In August, the couple announced that they were expecting their child. The duo shares the […]

Better Healthcare, Old Pension Scheme: Cong Manifesto 

The Congress on Saturday released its election manifesto for the Gujarat Assembly elections. The manifesto was released by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. “The Congress will stop indiscriminate privatization of healthcare and education,” the party manifesto said. “ The ‘Jan Manifesto’ released by the Rajasthan CM will put eight promises of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi […]

Adani In Middle Of India-China Conflict In SL

In recent times, Asia’s richest man, Gautam Adani, has shown a keenness to straddle worlds that value environmental consideration. Last year, he had publicly spoken about the need to accelerate ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate) transformation. Upholding this vision, Adani intends to invest in renewable power plants in the north of Sri Lanka. Ironically, the […]

From USD 16 Billion To Zero In A Week

Gone with the wind. Literally. This Is what happened to the USD 16-billion wealth of former FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried. In one of the most spectacular downfalls in the history of wealth destructions, Bankman-Fried’s wealth fell to zero within a week. As the crypto empire filed for bankruptcy, the 30-year-old businessman had to resign. His fortunes also […]

Selection Of Candidate: Problem Of Plenty For BJP, Congress Can Pick And Choose

In the run-up to the upcoming assembly elections, all three major political parties in the fray have announced the lists of candidates for most of the seats. Normally a two-party contest between Congress and BJP, but this time around the election battle will see the third entrant in AAP. While going through the lists of […]

Twitter Suspends $8 Subscription Scheme After Emergence of Fake Accounts

Twitter has suspended the recently started $ 8 subscription scheme. The scheme had been announced days after Elon Musk took up reigns at the Twitter head office. But the subscription program has been suspended due to bogus accounts opened in the name of some big brands. However, existing subscribers will be able to access their […]

Morbi Bridge Tragedy: Gujarat HC Rejects PIL

The Gujarat High Court rejected a PIL submitted by Surat activist Sanjeev Ezava seeking a magisterial inquiry by disbanding the existing special investigation team (SIT) into the Morbi suspension bridge collapse incident. The bridge collapsed on October 30 claiming 135 lives. The PIL sought to involve the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and also sought compensation […]

Career And Education Fair For Students 

Recently, in our school, a career fair was organized in which various institutes were displaying their courses and talking about the campus of their institutes. This fair was organized for the students from classes 8 to 12 and parents could also avail the opportunity. Here is my experience regarding the career fair. Before starting things […]

Social Calendar

Vibes Of India is back with the list of the most happening events in the city that will help you enjoy your weekend with your loved ones. Craftroots: Art workshop Crafroots has come up with a workshop of madhubani paintings, wall frame paintings and painting on tea coasters. Paintings are great way to describe our […]

Demonstration At Congress Headquarters Demanding Ticket To Thakor Samaj Members In Viramgam

Local MLAs in the Gujarat Pradesh Congress protested at the Gujarat Pradesh Congress headquarters, demanding that Thakor Samaj be given seats in the Viramgam assembly. The BJP gave a ticket to Hardik Patel from Viramgam, while Lakha Bharwad is currently the Congress MLA. 63-year-old Lakha Bharwad defeated BJP candidate Tejshree Patel by 6,500 votes in […]

Cong-NCP Tie-Up In Gujarat; Latter Gets To Fight 3 Seats

For Gujarat Assembly elections, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) formed a pre-election alliance, as part of which the Sharad Pawar-led party will run for three of the state’s 182 seats. The announcement was made here on Friday. In the 2017 Assembly elections, the two parties contested the Gujarat elections separately. NCP’s Kandhal […]

Gauahar Khan Asks ‘didi kaun hai’ After Shiv Thakare-Archana Gautam Fight

Big Boss 16 contestant Archana Gautam fell to Shiv Thakare’s provoking words and was evicted from the show, according to Gauahar Khan. Gauahar didn’t object to her eviction but asked if it wasn’t wrong on Shiv’s part to bring up a political leader’s name in order to tease her. Shiv had teased Archana, saying “didi,” […]

The Game Of Castes…

Analysis of the first list of BJP candidates announced yesterday in Gujarat. Sad Truth: Winnability of candidates largely depend on her/his caste. BJP has announced 160 of 182 candidates. Here’s a brief Caste analysis: With the dropping of several senior BJP leaders from the candidate list, including ex-CM Vijay Rupani, ex-Deputy CM Nitin Patel & […]

MLAs Frantically Clearing Outstanding Dues To Get NOCs

With the Gujarat assembly elections around the corner, MLAs and ministers are in panic mode. They have woken up to the fact that they haven’t cleared bills for the privileges they enjoyed as government officials for five years. Clearing the outstanding bills is essential to avail of the Non-Objection Certificate to start the nomination process […]