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The state forest department has set up cages and night vision cameras to monitor movements of leopards along the Sabarmati river. To house leopards that are caught, the department will also set up two new safari parks, near Vadodara and in the Gir East division. Senior forest officials searched all of Sector 20 in Gandhinagar […]
In the candidate’s plaza, there are 23 identified candidates of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress contesting from Ahmedabad city and rural areas will not be able to vote themselves on 21 assembly seats. The 23 candidates are contesting elections from those constituencies where they are not registered as voters. BJP […]
The number of transgender voters has increased in Gujarat since the last state assembly elections. The prevailing voters of their community were seen in Vadodara. The voting in the polling booths will take place in two phases – December 1 and December 5. About 702 transgenders cast their votes in the last election, according to […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the victims of the Morbi bridge tragedy on Tuesday evening. He inspected the site of the bridge collapse and had a word with local officials about the unfortunate incident. He was accompanied by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and cabinet minister Harsh Sanghavi. Hours before Modi landed in Morbi, the government […]
Gujarat Sports Minister Harsh Sanghavi on Sunday flagged off the cycling competition under the 36th National Games in Gandhinagar. On this occasion, he said, “It never gets easier, you just get faster. One thing which is common among all cyclists is great enthusiasm and determination. I wish them all good luck.” Women’s 25 km cycling […]
Robbers struck on Saturday night at Vasna Road area in Vadodara. They robbed gold and silver jewellery, and cash worth Rs 20 lakh from a house in Mudra Society. A couple—Deepak Jaising Patel and his live-in partner Divya Soni—were taken hostage and 41 tola of gold jewellery, 200 grams of silver and Rs 40,000 cash […]
While pigeons around Ahmedabad Airport can cause serious harm to passengers, it’s flight operations, and million-dollar aircraft, the authorities are still unsure about where to pin responsibility. Ahmedabad recorded 35 bird-hits from January to September 2021. In 2019, 80 bird-hits were reported. The issue appears to have been aggravated by pigeon-flying competitions known as ‘kabootarbazi’. […]
Citizens in Ahmedabad, Rajkot and other cities in Gujarat woke up to posters at several public places denouncing Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal as “anti-Hindu”. The posters, which have sprung up overnight, ‘quote’ Kejriwal slamming Hindu rituals. One such poster, quoting Kejriwal, read: “I consider Hinduism to be a folly,” while another read: “I […]
The Gujarat Vidyapith is one of the few remaining bastions of Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy. Such is the zealousness towards Gandhian principles on the Vidyapith campus that anyone who heads it needs to be attired in khadi in day-to-day life. The compulsory Khadi attire was the reason why Gandhi’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi ruled himself out as […]
The Health and Food Department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has taken stringent action against three hotel and restaurant operators in the state for flouting guidelines. Hotel Dev Palace, Chetak Chivda and Gajanand Pauva House were sealed indefinitely for running food centres without adequate hygienic conditions, registration and for violating Schedule 4 norms. Schedule 4 is food […]
29 % of households in Gujarat having tap water at home, face water shortages, an audit survey by the ministry of water resources reveals. While 99% of such families have a water connection in functioning status and 87 % of families get water regularly, 20% of households receive water supply thrice or four times.. 6% […]
Nearly a week after the new Vande Bharat Express train between Mumbai Central and Gandhinagar was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the train suffered minor damages on Thursday morning after it hit cattle on tracks in Gujarat. The incident occurred at 11.18 am between Gairatpur and Vatva stations. The train sustained damage after it […]
BJP leader Sangeet Som has stoked controversy yet again with his polarising statements. While speaking at a ‘Shastra Puja’ ceremony organised by the Rajput Utthan Sabha on Vijaya Dashami in Kheda village in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district, Som extolled the Rajput community to take up arms as the population of only a particular community was […]
Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel launched ‘Atmanirbhar Gujarat Schemes for Assistance to Industries’ just prior to the state assembly polls. The benefits under the scheme will be extended to 10 sectors including green energy ecosystem, mobility, capital equipment, metals and mineral, textile and apparel, sustainability, agro-processing, chemicals, gems and jewellery and healthcare. The government aims to […]
Political circles are abuzz with rumours of Anar Patel, the daughter of former Gujarat Chief Minister and Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, taking a plunge in electoral politics. The whispers became louder when she visited Khodaldham to meet Naresh Patel, the trust’s chairman. Khodaldham is the epicentre of Gujarat politics. It serves as a unifying […]
Communal tension was witnessed in Kheda’s Matar district following reports of stone-pelting during garba in Undhera village on 3rd October at night. The police said that matters came to a head when members of two communities clashed at the garba venue. Stone-pelting and damage to vehicles was reported, but the situation was under control, the police said. There […]
A three-day “Know Your Air Force” exhibition was inaugurated by Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat at the SWAC Communication Flight in Ahmedabad’s Meghaninagar area on Saturday. The evening event was marked by an hour-long performance by the Air Force band, which played popular patriotic tunes, interspersed with a narration of the exploits of the Air Force […]
The state’s Maldhari (cattle herder) community is up in arms against the government. On September 21, the Maldhari community decided to not provide milk in the dairy or at home. Although the government has withdrawn the Cattle Control Bill, Maldhari Samaj is disappointed with the government’s policy on some remaining issues. A Maldhari convention was […]
The Surat police have arrested three persons from Mumbai after a Surat businessman filed complaints against them for “hate posts” on social media. An FIR was registered by the textile trader in Surat. According to the police, Champaklal Mehta who resides in Paal area of Surat complained that he was a member of a WhatsApp […]
A travel agency owner, Nilesh Dand from Hubli in Karnataka has filed a police complaint that a Gujarati man, Dr Tushar Thakor kidnapped him, illegally confined him and robbed him. The Chiloda police are conducting further investigations. The 50-year-old Nilesh Dand has alleged that his friend Paringat Nair had promised Rs 35 lascs to Dr […]
