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The Gujarat High Court has ruled that the essential Hindu marriage ceremonies, including Saptapadi (the seven sacred steps around the holy fire), are mandatory for a marriage to be legally valid under the Hindu Marriage Act. The court observed that without these customary rites, a Hindu marriage cannot be considered complete or binding. The ruling […]
Gujarat’s farmers are fighting on more than one front right now. Their biggest complaint is about electricity poles and high-tension power lines being put up on their farmland. On top of that, the Congress says the state has kept Gujarat out of the central government’s crop insurance scheme for years. Both issues have now pulled […]
Gujarat-based listed companies significantly outperformed India’s benchmark stock indices during the first six months of 2026, even as global uncertainty and the West Asia conflict weighed heavily on financial markets. While the BSE Sensex fell around 9.7% and the NSE Nifty declined 8.2% since the beginning of the year, several Gujarat companies posted impressive double-digit […]
The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has launched an investigation into an alleged immigration fraud in which two men claim they were cheated out of a combined Rs 72.3 lakh after being promised Canadian work visas that never materialised. The accused are four members of a family who operated an immigration consultancy in Ahmedabad and lured clients […]
The Gujarat Medical Council (GMC) has suspended the medical registrations of three dermatologists from Gujarat for 13 months after finding them guilty of violating professional ethics by accepting a company-sponsored foreign trip. The disciplinary action is being seen as one of the rare instances where a state medical council has taken strict action against doctors […]
Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL), India’s largest renewable energy company, has surpassed 20 gigawatts (GW) of operational renewable energy capacity, becoming the first renewable energy company in India to achieve the milestone predominantly through greenfield development. The company generates over 52 billion units of clean electricity annually. The output represents nearly 3 per cent of […]
The Congress on Tuesday accused the Gujarat government of denying farmers the benefits of the Centre’s flagship crop insurance scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), for the past several years. Addressing a press conference, Congress leader, AICC National Spokesperson and former Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil alleged that Gujarat is the only state […]
A wedding celebration in Gujarat’s Patan district turned violent after a 21-year-old groom was allegedly dragged off a mare and assaulted during his wedding procession. Unlike many past incidents involving upper caste and Dalit communities, this case involves two Other Backward Class (OBC) communities—the Patni (Devipujak) community and the Thakor community. Police have registered a […]
Gujarat’s first integrated Information Technology (IT) township, Infocity in Gandhinagar, is set to return to government control after 2030. The Gujarat government has decided not to renew the lease of Creative Infocity Ltd (CIL), the company led by founder Dilip Barot, which developed and managed the state’s flagship IT park project. The decision means the […]
A series of fatal lion attacks in Gujarat has raised fresh concerns over the growing conflict between humans and Asiatic lions, especially in and around the Gir landscape. In the latest incident, a five-year-old boy was killed by a lioness in Amreli district, taking the number of reported human deaths linked to lion encounters this […]
The Prime Minister Internship Scheme, launched by the Central Government with the objective of providing employment opportunities and industrial exposure to young people, has witnessed a disappointing response in Gujarat. Although the scheme was introduced with an ambitious national target of offering internships and employment opportunities to one crore youth over five years, participation in […]
What began as allegations of government officials misusing subsidised residential plots near the Statue of Unity has ended in one of the most significant crackdowns by the Gujarat administration against its own officers. On Sunday, the Narmada district administration demolished five illegal bungalows constructed on government-allotted land at Garudeshwar after an investigation found that the […]
A Gujarat connection has resurfaced in a visa fraud conspiracy in the United States after another Gujarati national pleaded guilty in a federal court in Boston for his role in staged armed robberies that were carried out to obtain immigration benefits. The latest development comes more than a year after another Gujarat-origin accused was convicted […]
Gujarat, one of India’s most industrially developed states, has failed to secure a place among the country’s top 10 states in terms of women-owned industrial enterprises, highlighting a significant gender gap in entrepreneurship despite the state’s robust industrial ecosystem. According to official data released on the occasion of MSME Day, Gujarat has 39,076 women-owned industrial […]
Nearly a month after around 150 homes in Surat’s Nasirnagar slum settlement were reduced to rubble, Gujarat High Court on Thursday came down heavily on the state government, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), the police and Torrent Power over the controversial demolition, questioning who authorised the operation and why it was carried out without following […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted searches at five locations in Delhi linked to businessman Harpreet Singh Talwar and his associates as part of a money laundering investigation related to the 2021 Mundra Port heroin seizure case. According to officials, the searches were carried out under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering […]
In a significant policy shift aimed at making Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) more attractive to professionals, investors, and multinational companies, the Gujarat government has announced major tax relief on liquor served within the financial hub. Through two separate notifications, the state government has drastically reduced Value Added Tax (VAT) on foreign liquor and […]
American aerospace giant GE Aerospace has submitted its long-awaited engine analysis reports to Indian investigators probing the crash of Air India Flight AI-171, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, killing 260 people. The engine reports were among the final critical pieces of evidence awaited by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau […]
An elderly couple from Gujarat’s Surat has sought permission for euthanasia, claiming that years of alleged harassment by municipal officials and local political leaders have left them physically, mentally and financially devastated. The couple, who have already endured the loss of nine family members in a tragic road accident, say they have now reached a […]
There was a time till late 1990s when Mundra was easy to miss—a quiet fishing village on India’s western edge, with no highways, no industry, and little to signal its future. Yet history hints that this arid region of Kutch with its marshy coastline was never just an ordinary outpost. For nearly two centuries, it […]
