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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 […]
Ashok Gehlot, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, joined the Congress party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra on Saturday along with other party members. From the village of Rangpuria in Rajasthan’s Bundi district, the padayatra was resumed. “Cleanliness warriors, and sweepers are also joining the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. #BharatJodoYatra There is a journey of every class, there is […]
Ashok Gehlot, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, stated on Friday that the country should be proud of itself for holding the G-20 presidency and that all prime leaders who have led India since its independence have contributed to that success. He claimed that every prime minister since India’s independence had helped the country prosper. He […]
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 […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video meeting of the Governors and Chief Minister of States and LT Governors of Union Territories, to discuss aspects relating to India G20 presidency. Prime Minister Modi stated that India’s G20 presidency belongs to the entire nation, and is a good opportunity to showcase the country’s strengths. PM Modi […]
A 40-year-old man was remanded to four-day police custody for allegedly raping and killing an 8-year-old girl in Surat. While her relatives protested in the Katargam neighbourhood calling for the culprit to be given the death penalty. The girl was lured by the man on December 7 while she was playing outside her home, according […]
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 […]
BhartPe has filed a criminal suit against its former MD and co-founder Ashneer Grover and his family, seeking up to ₹ 88.67 crore in damages for alleged cheating and embezzlement of funds. The suit, running into 2,800 pages, alleges that Grover, his wife Madhuri Jain and other family members created fake bills, enlisted fictitious vendors […]
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 Monthly flows through the systematic investment plan (SIP) course into the mutual funds touched a new height of Rs 13,306 crore in November. Retail investors have ignored the instability in the world stock market. The total fund industry’s Assets Under Management (AUM) surpassed the Rs 40 lakh crore mark, as per the data of […]
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 […]
Shortly after limiting the scope of pre-matric scholarship for minority students in November, the Ministry of Minority Affairs has decided to end the Maulana Azad Fellowship — dedicated to pursuing higher education — to minority students, from 2022-23. Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani announced this in Lok Sabha on Thursday in response to a question […]
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a copy of decisions taken by its Collegium on December 12, 2018, saying no final decision was taken that day and, therefore, discussions which are part of a consultative process cannot be made public. “Some discussions might have taken place. But unless and until a final […]
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 […]
Acting upon a petition by a young Christian couple, challenging the refusal of a family court for divorce, a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court Friday held that the stipulation of the period of one year or more for filing a divorce petition by mutual consent — under Section 10 A of the Divorce […]
The centre said on Friday, that more than 16 lakh Indian nationals have given up their citizenship since 2011 comprising 183,741 in this year. On being asked in the winter session of Parliament, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan provided the figures. He said that the number of Indians who yielded their permanent […]
The introduction of a private member bill by a BJP member on implementation of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) across the country witnessed vociferous protest from the Opposition members in Rajya Sabha on December 9. The Opposition members requested the BJP member Kirodi Lal Meena to withdraw the Bill and also asked Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar to […]
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 […]
