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That the chilling murder of 25-year-old Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner, Aaftab Poonawala, received widespread media coverage is no surprise. As if the details of the case are not horrifying enough, however, a large section of TV media also used the event to further anti-Muslim narratives, like that of ‘love jihad’, given the couple’s […]
The Supreme Court on Monday disapproved of a remark made by Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on the collegium system of appointing judges. Rijiju, at a TV event, had hit out at the mechanism to appoint Supreme Court and high court judges, saying the collegium system is “alien” to the Constitution. “Mr Attorney General, I […]
Calling out the controversial film, The Kashmir Files, as “propaganda” and “vulgar”, Israeli filmmaker and a jury chief at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Nadav Lapid, said he was “shocked” and “disturbed” by its inclusion in the competitive section. Sharing the jury report during the closing ceremony of the 53rd edition of IFFI […]
There is an increasing craze among real estate developers in Ahmedabad to plan luxury apartments. Approximately 3000 new apartments ranging from Rs 2 crore to Rs 10 crore are to be launched in Ahmedabad city over the next three years. Industry specialists say that as the target market is an elite-class society, the competition among […]
Days are coming to an end for campaigning for the first phase of the Gujarat assembly elections, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attempted to turn the tide in his favor by holding a roadshow in Surat. A day earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had done a road show on this route. Like the Prime […]
The Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday that religious freedom does not include the fundamental right to convert others to a particular religion, and that it certainly does not include the right to convert an individual through fraud, deception, coercion, or allurement. The central government said that it is “cognisant of the menace” and […]
As Gujarat gears up for the assembly elections this week, PM Modi continued his campaign in Gujarat today, speaking at public meetings in Palitana and Anjar. PM Modi said in his first rally of the day that the Bhavnagar and Saurashtra regions embody ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat.’ In his second address at Anjar, PM Modi […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged that the Congress party’s mindset is of “well-wishers of terrorists” and for being skeptical about the Batla House encounter that occurred in 2008, which was an act of terrorism. PM Modi stated during his speech at a public rally in Surat, Gujarat, the Batla House encounter was an […]
The election heat wave in Gujarat will be over by the end of this month when the scheduled elections in two phases, December 1 and 5 will occur. In the meantime, political leaders are accusing each other of using provocative and misleading speeches in their campaigns. Congress’s new president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the dominant leaders […]
Days ahead of polling in the first phase of the Gujarat assembly elections, former BJP minister and think tank Jai Narayan Vyas on Monday formally joined the Congress, boosting the party’s morale. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot were formally present at the party headquarters in Ahmedabad to welcome Vyas and […]
After the Prime Minister’s 27 km long roadshow, and grand rally at Hiranagari, Surat, it was the turn of AAP’s convenor, Arvind Kejriwal. Arvind Kejriwal, who has been camping in Surat for two days, after meeting diamond entrepreneurs, once again wrote that Isudan Gadhvi, Gopal Italia, and Alpesh Kathiriya of Varachha are winning with a […]
When James Cameron released Avatar in 2009, science fiction overwhelmed all of us with its extraordinary visuals and animations. The movie stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver in the prime roles and is situated in the mid-22nd century when humans are populating Pandora. Pandora is a lavish livable moon in […]
Khambhalia, Dwarka: Vikram Maadam was talking to a group of Muslim women in his office in Khambhalia. It was an informal meeting, if there’s anything informal for a politician who will be contesting an Assembly election in a few days. Over the years, 64-year-old Congress leader Vikram Arjan Maadam has built a reputation of being […]
More than 2,000 km from Gujarat, a tsunami of protest is taking shape in Vizhinjam in Kerala. Vizhinjam is located close to Kerala’s capital city Thiruvananthapuram, and the bone of contention is a project by Ahmedabad-based billionaire Gautam Adani. Back in 2015, an Adani Group company called the Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited started constructing […]
In the second phase, 163 candidates, or 20%, have a criminal background. The second phase of voting for 93 seats will take place on December 5. There are 833 candidates in the running. In 2017, there were 101 candidates with a criminal record (12 percent). There are 92 candidates (11%) who have serious criminal cases […]
“I want our son back; neither allowances nor any election promises are of interest to us. “I haven’t seen him in two years,” said Ankita Thapariya, the mother of Ankit, a fisherman imprisoned in Pakistan for illegally entering the neighboring country’s water territory. The situation is no different for the families of 655 fishermen from […]
Two Gujarati brothers, one in ninth grade and the other in the sixth, are suddenly center stage in a rather unlikely arena for children – politics – and it is none other than the Prime Minister who has now spoken about the duo, just days after the opposition Congress filed a complaint with the Election […]
Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said on Sunday that Gujarat will conduct the “Grand Olympics” in the future. In the poll-bound state, he addressed the media persons at Kamalam, the BJP’s Gujarat headquarters. When asked about the capability of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar to host international sports events such as the Olympics, he said, “Not only […]
Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, made another written prediction about the Gujarat Assembly election results today in Surat, claiming his party will win seven to eight seats in ‘diamond city’ Surat and form the government. He had earlier said that Congress would get fewer than five seats. He stated again on Sunday that […]
A violent crowd presided over by the Latin Catholic church on late night Sunday attacked Vizhinjam police station in Thiruvananthapuram in the demonstration against the construction of the new Adani port. The group targeted the police station with the help of sticks and bricks and assaulted police officials post an arrest of a person. The […]
