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Supreme Court has said that while raiding a brothel, the sex workers should not be arrested or penalized in any form, verbal or physical, since voluntary sex work is not illegal, and only running a brothel is against the law. These guidelines were offered while dealing with certain reservations that the Centre had raised in […]
Thousands of farmers gathered in Palanpur, Banaskantha district, north Gujarat, on Thursday to demand that the state investigate the possibility of filling the water reservoirs – Karmavat Lake and Mukteshwar Dam – with Narmada water to alleviate the area’s water shortage. The protest rally drew over 20,000 farmers from 125 villages in Vadgam and neighbouring […]
IIT Gandhinagar launched the much-awaited event and most loved technological college fest of Gujarat, the Invention Factory India. The Invention Factory India programme is a one-of-a-kind intense summer inventing programme. During the IITG fest, selected candidates from IITs around the nation make an invention. They prototype it, pitch it, then write and file provisional patent […]
IPS Raju Bhargava has taken over as Rajkot’s new Police Commissioner. He received a grand welcome from his guard of honors at the city’s circuit house. Senior officials, including DCPs, attended the function. He spoke to the media about the tarnished image of Rajkot. He said, “We would take all necessary steps to improve Rajkot’s […]
In today’s age, the craze for mobiles is increasing among children. However, someday a teenager might lose their life over it. One such case has come to light in Goblej village of Kheda. According to sources, there was a quarrel between two brothers about playing a game. When the younger brother refused to play the […]
A 17-year-old, differently-abled girl from Surat was gang-raped by two men at Surat Railway Station on May 22. The Railway Police arrested the accused on Tuesday, May 24. As per the police reports, the girl along with an 18-year-old had ran away. And to survive, they were doing odd jobs at the railway station after […]
Acting swiftly in the wake of the Surat Gas Tragedy, the police have arrested another suspect this week. On Monday, they captured the Managing Director of Hikal, Sameer Hiremath, a Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company. In January 2022, six labourers working at Vishwa Prema Silk Mills were found dead after inhaling highly toxic gases from a nearby […]
The New York City court exempted six Gujaratis from criminal charges for illegal immigration. The US authorities caught the six crossing the Canada-US border on April 28. On Thursday, a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Gary L Favro, instructed the young Gujarat boys not […]
Aiming at a huge victory during the upcoming assembly elections, the ruling BJP has chalked out a strategy to leverage its increasing control over the massive cooperatives sector in Gujarat that cuts through all castes and regions, as well as through the State Congress’ KHAM (Kshatriya, Harijans, Adivasis and Muslims) formula that it plans to […]
When Gujarat struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic, the excruciating chikungunya made roads in the state. In 2021, Gujarat reported the highest number of chikungunya cases in India. However, the tentative data for 2022 indicates a similar trend. Gujarat witnessed a persistent rise in the number of chikungunya cases after 2019. Information from the National Centre […]
Ahmedabad. May 25- Two men impersonating as Customs officers allegedly robbed a young passenger in Ahmedabad international airport. According to sources, a young man from Surat landed at the airport from Dubai. While he was waiting for a rickshaw, two strangers introduced themselves as Customs officers and told him that they were checking his luggage. The […]
In an interesting twist in the ongoing CBI raids on “agents” reportedly connected to Gujarat cadre batch 2011 officer, K Rajesh, the young officer surprised by putting up a tweet a few minutes back. He simply wrote ,”modesty is the colour of virtue”. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted raids last Thursday at Gandhinagar, […]
Senior Gujarat Congress leader Bharatsinh Solanki’s Tuesday remarks against the BJP over Ram Mandir at a public meeting have invited controversy with the BJP calling it an insult to the Hindus and that it reflected the “Congress’ mindset.” Solanki, a former union minister, on Tuesday, asked whatever happened to the crores of bricks with […]
Combining Gandhian terminology of ‘satyagrah’ and modern technology, the Gujarat Congress is soon launching a Satyagrah App while simultaneously starting a door-to-door campaign in 27 Scheduled Tribe and 13 Scheduled Caste seats to make them aware of the “anti-backward class” policies of the BJP Government. Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and Congress SC Department Chairman […]
Gujarat high Court, today, refused to grant bail to Prashantkumar Pandya, the 20-year-old young man, who was part of the Ram Navami procession in Himmatnagar of Sabarkantha district, where communal violence erupted. Pandya, while applying for bail, had said that the procession on April 10 was carried out with the permission of the police. However, […]
A lady in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district allegedly killed her nine-month-old daughter before killing herself after a personal quarrel, police said on Wednesday. The event occurred on Tuesday evening in the district’s Navagam village, according to a police official from Thangadh police station. Bhavuben Dabhi (22) hanged her daughter with a rope before hanging herself from […]
The Surat Municipal Corporation reported cases of food poisoning at a wedding dinner in Katargam, Surat. The officials took the infected people to the hospital. However, as food poisoning started affecting more and more people, the corporation opened an OPD (Outpatient Department) for immediate treatment under the wedding tent. As per the sources, more than […]
India Meteorological Department (IMD), today, has warned that strong winds might blow over north Gujarat and that the fishermen should refrain from going to the sea from May 27 until at least May 29. “Strong winds with speed reaching 40 to 50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph are very likely to prevail along and off […]
The State Information Commission (SIC) issued a notice to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) regarding birth and death registrations. In reply to the show-cause order, a senior AMC official said, “There was a verbal instruction from the higher authorities. They asked to withhold birth and death registrations from June 2019 to June 2021. The numbers […]
Electronic gadgets are all the fad with youngsters these days, with many seeking the latest models in every category. This is true, no matter whether the college kids and parents can afford these newer versions or not. Personal liking and enthusiasm over technology is one thing, but often times these teenagers are the victims of […]
