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The Admission Committee for Professional Postgraduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPPGMEC) on Thursday declared that the procedure of postgraduate medical and dental courses for 2022-23 has been deduced. The committee notified that a total of 101 state quota seats are empty in MD, MS and Diploma courses. There are only seven vacant seats in MD. There […]
Viral Gadhvi, the police inspector of the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) of Rajkot city police who is placed under suspension, and Upendra Jograna, a former sub-inspector with the Rajkot Crime Branch, were booked Thursday for allegedly restraining an Unjha businessman wrongfully in Gujarat’s Rajkot, torturing and trying to force him to surrender a property […]
Imran Khedawala of the Congress is the only Muslim candidate elected to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly in the just concluded polls, which saw the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) register a landslide victory. The outgoing Assembly had three Muslim legislators, all from the Congress. Khedawala, the sitting Congress MLA from the Jamalpur-Khadia Assembly constituency in […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all ready to form the government in Gujarat for the seventh straight term on December 12. Party. Bhupendra Patel will take oath as chief minister again, along with 20 other cabinet ministers. Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel on Friday submitted his resignation to Governor Acharya Devvat after BJP observed […]
Dropping from 59 percent, the success rate of women candidates in the 2022 Gujarat Assembly elections, which recorded 40 female candidates from all four political parties, reduced to 37.5 percent. Only 15 women candidates made it to the House this time. Among these 15 newly elected women MLAs, 14 won from the BJP, which had […]
A meeting of the newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs in Gujarat began in Gandhinagar on Saturday to choose a new legislative party leader, who will take over as the next chief minister of the state. The meeting took place at the BJP’s state headquarters ‘Kamalam’. The meeting to pick a new leader is said […]
Taking “moral responsibility” for the party’s “unprecedented loss” in the Assembly Elections, the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Gujarat, Raghu Sharma (64) has submitted his resignation to AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge. In October 2021, the AICC leadership entrusted Sharma, the then Rajasthan health minister, with the responsibility of Gujarat. Shortly after in November 2021, […]
The Gujarat Assembly Elections results are being studied by poll strategists and party pundits. And the one glaring spotlight has been 15 seats in the Saurashtra-Kutch region where the combined figure of Cong-AAP votes are higher than votes polled by the winning candidates. AAP which emerged number two on 35 seats — nine reserved for […]
In the recently held Gujarat Assembly elections, NOTA (None of the Above) received 9% fewer votes than expected, yet it polled more than the victory margin on four seats. 5.01 lakh votes, or 1.6% of all votes cast, went to NOTA, outnumbering votes for larger parties including the BSP (0.5%), the Samajwadi Party (0.29%), the […]
The Election Commission (EC) of India has concluded that Home Minister Amit Shah’s “taught a lesson in 2002” remark at a rally during the recent Gujarat Assembly elections campaigning did not violate the model code of conduct (MCC). Speaking at a rally on November 25, Shah had said that the BJP had taught a lesson […]
Of the 45 new candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Gujarat assembly elections by dropping the sitting MLAs, all but two sailed through. In a bid to nullify anti-incumbency sentiment, the BJP released 45 MLAs including former chief minister Vijay Rupani. The saffron party has been in power in Gujarat for 27 […]
Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja shared an image with his wife Rivaba for winning the Gujarat Assembly election. The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the Jamnagar North constituency bagged an over 57 per cent vote share. Jadeja tweeted that, “Hello MLA you truly deserve it.” Rivaba defeated her nearest rival, Karshanbhai of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by […]
The sixth edition of the Vedanta Udaipur World Music Festival, India’s largest world music extravaganza, will be held from December 16th to December 18th,2022. The focus of this year’s musical celebration will be the revival of forgotten musical instruments such as the Sarangi by providing an international platform for local musicians to showcase their talent. […]
News outlets the world over have widely reported on the ruling BJP recording a historic win in Gujarat. The party won 156 seats, decimating the Opposition. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the campaign to a record win on his home turf bringing the BJP to power for the seventh consecutive term. The Assembly poll win […]
The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2022, which seeks to strengthen the protection of endangered species and enhance punishment for illegal wildlife trade, was passed in the Rajya Sabha by a voice vote on Thursday. The Bill was introduced by Environment and Forest Minister Bhupender Yadav. Responding to the debate on the Bill in the […]
Five years ago, in 2017, Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mevani were the most-staunch BJP critics. This time around, while Patidar agitation leader Patel and OBC leader Thakor crossed over on BJP’s side, Mevani stood with the Congress. All three have won from respective seats, with perhaps the same concern for the scheduled and […]
It is a colossal majority with which Gujarat has thrown back the BJP to helm power in the state. Thursday’s results have created history of sorts. A seventh term for any party and that too with a record-setting mandate could only mean one thing: alls well with Modi’s Gujarat. There is no sign of voter […]
It is a straight 75 of 92. That is BJP’s strike rate in Gujarat’s hinterland. Just as one thought it was the “rubarn” (rural+urban) push that secured the party’s thumping success, a closer scrutiny of the results reveal that rural Gujarat has emerged BJP’s epicentre of power. In fact, the Congress is nearly decimated in […]
A reversal of roles worked well in Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) favour. A huge section of the Patidar community voted against the BJP in the 2017 Assembly polls. Reason: the quota agitation. However, an analysis of the vote share shows how the saffron brigade has done exceedingly well this election. The BJP won almost all […]
One97 Communications, which operates under the Paytm brand, has said that the company’s board will meet on December 13 to decide on a share buyback programme. Paytm has Rs 9,182 crore of cash in hand and a large chunk of this predates its initial public offering (IPO). The announcement comes when the company’s shares were […]
