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In a bid to weed out fake voters ahead of the Assembly elections, the Gujarat Congress has pointed fingers at the electoral roll prepared by the Election Commission. Representatives of the state Election Commission met the Congress delegation, Saturday. The list, a copy of which was shared with media, includes ghost voters, deceased persons and […]
A Gujarat youth from the tribal district of Chhota Udepur has been nabbed by Ahmedabad police for faking an air ticket. According to the police, a youth approached the Qatar Airways ticket counter at Ahmedabad International Airport at around 3 am. He started arguing with the ticket staff after they expressed their helplessness as they […]
Following the CBI raid at Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence on August 19, 2022 nearly 12 Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers were notified for their immediate transfer orders by the Lieutenant General VK Saxena. The CBI had conducted raids at the residence of Manish Sisodia and 30 others locations in connection with alleged […]
To register their protest over the “unfair remission” granted to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, hundreds of citizens, women’s organisation members and students gathered in a procession at Ashram Road, Saturday morning. The demonstration sent out a strong message to the state and Central government: “Revoke the Remission.” The Bilkis Bano case dates […]
In a quick resolve, Botad police, Saturday, apprehended priest Mahendra Singh Rawat as the prime accused in the murder of fellow mahant Pratap Singh at the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple at Garhada. The little town was jolted awake on Friday after word spread of a dead body found within the temple precincts. Within hours, it was confirmed […]
In its second expansion in just 26- months, Gujarat’s Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) has decided to add Nandoli within the city’s limits. In June 2020, the city’s area was expanded from 464-square-kilometres to 480-square-kilometres, in which Bopal-Ghuma municipality and Kathwada, and Nana Chiloda gram panchayat regions were enlisted. Nandoli is an agriculture-based village, located […]
August 20, 2022: The Supreme Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed questioning the setting up of a zoo in Jamnagar by the Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre Society (GZRRC). The GZRRC is supported by Reliance Industries Limited. The Petition was filed by an activist challenging the setting up of the Zoo. He […]
In a matter of internal ignominy, the US federal government commission, namely the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Friday, August 19, 2022, strongly condemned the early release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case. “USCIRF strongly condemns the early and unjustified release of 11 men sentenced to life in prison for […]
In a three-week ‘Pitch Black’ exercise aimed at practising Offensive Counter Air (OCA) and Defensive Counter Air (DCA) combat in a simulated scenario, the Indian Air Force (IAF) deployed its four Sukhoi- 30 MKI fighter jets and two C-17 heavy-lift aircraft being conducted in the northern territory of Australia. The Exercise Pitch Black is being […]
India’s southern state of Karnataka’s Energy Minister V. Sunil Kumar on Friday, August 19, 2022 asserted that the state government would soon clear all of its dues amounting to ₹ 355 crore to the demarcated power stations after the Union Power ministry debarred nearly 27 DISCOMS from across 13 states from buying or selling electricity […]
Captain Zoya Aggarwal, who is a senior Air India pilot of aircraft Boeing-777 is the first Indian woman pilot to take an aircraft above the North pole. She secured a Guinness world record achieving a distance of about 16,000 km, which made her place in SFO aviation museum on Friday. It was the first time […]
On one hand, the government and the Home Minister are always appreciating the Gujarat police, on the other hand a constable of Surat police, named Head Constable Vipul Ranchodbhai Kordia has been suspended for blackmailing the Gujarat police. The constable was using his position to provide CDR secretly. As soon as this matter came to light, […]
A minimum of two people have died due to overcrowding during Janmashtami celebrations, at a temple in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, the police said as of 20/08/2022. The incident took place during midnight celebrations at Banke Bihari temple, reveal police officials. Abhishek Yadav, a senior cop in Mathura said that on the auspicious occasion of […]
A mother of three was left staggered when she birthed twins with entirely different skin colors. Chantelle Broughtonm, 29, reveals that she is often inquired if the children are actually her own. The odds are so rare that genetics experts say that the chance of this happening is one in a million. Chantelle’s son Ayon […]
Rishi Sunak who is an Indian origin candidate for the post of British Prime Minister came to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple’s function for the occasion of Janmashtami. He was accompanied by his wife Akshata Murthy. They both participated in the function at the Bhaktivedanta Manor temple. Post the function celebrations. Rishi […]
Ironically enough, Rajiv means lotus. The symbol of the party which opposes with all its might the ideology and policies that Rajiv Gandhi, India’s youngest prime minister espoused. Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his tributes to the former prime minister on his birth anniversary. Born on 20 August 1944 in Mumbai to the illustrious Indira […]
The Congress is going all guns blazing over the “questionable” release of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case. The case dates back to 2002 and is wrought in the post-Godhra communal riots that flared up in Gujarat. Bano, then 21 and five-months pregnant, was gangraped by the 11. They also stand guilty of […]
Gujarat police have begun investigations after a Swaminarayan saint’s body was found within the BAPS temple premises in Gadhada, a prominent pilgrimage town in the Botad district of Gujarat. Pujari Pratap Singh Sindha was in service to god. The police have taken possession of the dead body and are taking further action. The police are […]
The Delhi Police detained Aam Aadmi Party workers who gathered outside Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence to extend their support to Sisodia after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided his premises. The central probe agency’s searches against the Delhi Deputy CM come weeks after Lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena recommended a probe […]
After the Jammu and Kashmir Police recovered a consignment of arms and ammunition dropped by a Pakistani drone in Jammu’s Toph village located near the international border, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted raids at multiple locations. The raids were conducted in Jammu, Kathua, Samba and Doda. A case was registered on February […]
