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The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday held that payment of court fees is compulsory for initiating proceedings relating to Waqf properties before the Gujarat State Waqf Tribunal. The ruling was delivered in Sunni Muslim Idgah Masjid Trust v. Hardik Sitaram Patel & Anr. The petitioners had contended that court fees under the Gujarat Court Fees […]
2,28,504 farmers of the state have benefitted from this scheme Gujarat witnessed a massive increase of 2843% in the fund released under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) scheme in the last four years since 2022-23. Moreover, till now total 2,28,504 farmers have been benefitted from this scheme in Gujarat. The information […]
Over 400 builders in Gujarat are now under the regulator’s lens. GujRERA has reportedly taken strong action against them for allegedly flouting financial rules under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act. Vibes of India understands this is one of the largest regulatory crackdowns in recent years. A close examination of filings from 2021-22 to 2023-24 revealed […]
Despite spending thousands of crores of rupees to tackle malnutrition, Gujarat continues to struggle with high child and infant mortality, performing worse than several other Indian states. Data shows that the state has failed to achieve the expected improvement in child health outcomes, raising serious questions about the effectiveness of its policies and implementation. In […]
The death of a Seventh-day Adventist Higher Secondary School student in Maninagar in a stabbing incident and the public outrage that followed have now reached the courtroom. Vibes of India had reported that the Gujarat government had taken over the school’s management. VOI had also mentioned that the government takeover is unprecedented given it is possibly […]
The first phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists in Gujarat has concluded, and the findings emerging from this exercise have triggered serious debate about the robustness of recent electoral outcomes. An analysis of the revised data done by a vernacular daily has revealed patterns that are difficult to ignore—particularly in constituencies […]
Two persons, including a police inspector who once worked with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), have been caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 3.30 lakh. Police Inspector PK Patel and constable Vipulbhai Desai, both posted in the CI Cell of CID Crime, were trapped by the ACB in what officials described as the largest bribery […]
Gujarat continues to lag behind states such as Delhi, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu in organ transplantation, despite a growing number of patients in urgent need of life-saving organs. According to a report in Sandesh, a vernacular daily, the state ranks sixth in the country in terms of organ transplants carried out between 2020 and 2024. […]
In a strict order that can lay a precedent in Gujarat, an Ahmedabad court has ordered seven individuals operating news channels and platforms on social media to remove defamatory content against Rajya Sabha MP and Reliance Industries Director of Corporate Affairs Parimal Nathwani, granting an ad-interim ex-parte injunction in a defamation suit filed by him. […]
A major controversy has erupted in Gujarat after the state government’s education department–run Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK), the Command and Control Centre for school monitoring, awarded contracts worth Rs. 968 crore, over a period of four years, to ArMee Infotech, a company in which retired IAS officer Sujit Gulatiis a director. Gulati is a 1985-batch IAS officer. He […]
In the wake of escalating criticism over the Gujarat Common Admission System (GCAS), the state education department has set up an expanded advisory committee tasked with reassessing how the centralised admission process is being managed. The move comes even as pressure from students, teachers, college administrators, and several university heads to dismantle the GCAS continues […]
A Jain man approached the family court in Surat with a forceful application. He demanded that the court halt the planned initiation of his seven-year-old daughter into monkhood. The child currently lives with his estranged wife. The man named Samir Shah is a share-market trader. He also sought custody of both his children: the seven-year-old […]
Few cities face the ongoing risk of the earth moving beneath them as sharply as Ahmedabad. Ask those who escaped the ravages of the 2001 earthquake here. It’s estimated that the energy released was equivalent to 400 atomic bombs thrown over Nagasaki, exploding 23 km below the earth’s surface. Such was the scale of devastation […]
A major scam under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme has come to light in Gujarat. Opposition Congress revealed that over Rs 70 crore was misappropriated. Following the revelations, the two sons of then Minister of State for Panchayat Bachu Khabad were arrested. They are now out on bail. The scam […]
In a horrifying incident, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped and an iron rod was inserted into her private parts in a village in Rajkot district. The village falls under the jurisdiction of Rajkot Police Station. The accused, Ramsingh, a father of three, has been arrested. He is 35-year-old. According to information, the girl, under […]
Despite the grand scale and crores spent on organizing Vibrant Gujarat, and the state’s claims of major industrial breakthroughs, the ground reality tells a different story. While the government highlights rising employment opportunities for educated youth, a recent report by the Central Government presents a contrasting picture: over the past five years, nearly 11,000 small […]
A long-running matrimonial dispute rooted in differing dietary practices reached its legal conclusion this week, as the Gujarat High Court rejected a woman’s appeal contesting her divorce and upheld a family court order dissolving the marriage. The unusual case revolved around disagreements over the use of onion and garlic in the household kitchen—ingredients prohibited in […]
In a significant policy shift aimed at supporting thousands of home guard volunteers, the Gujarat government has approved a three-year extension to their retirement age. The change, introduced through an amendment to Rule 9 of the Mumbai Home Guards Rules, 1953, increases the retirement threshold from 55 to 58 years. The home guards organisation, originally […]
Former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma’s conviction in a money-laundering case on Saturday has once again reopened one of Gujarat’s most politically sensitive bureaucratic battles — the long-running dispute between the Sharma brothers and the state’s top leadership during the years when Narendra Modi was chief minister. The Special PMLA court in Ahmedabad sentenced Sharma to […]
In a stinging judgement reclaiming democracy, the Gujarat High Court has shredded the Ahmedabad Police’s years-long practice of imposing back-to-back Section 144 orders — calling the state’s conduct “arbitrary, unjustified, and violative of fundamental rights”. The message from the bench seems to be blunt:Gujarat Police has no business treating an emergency law as a permanent […]
