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Buoyed by his party’s Punjab triumph, an enthusiastic Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday took the battle straight into the toughest opponent’s camp as he appealed to the people of Gujarat to give the AAP an opportunity to end the “corrupt 25-year rule of the BJP.” As thousands cheered on a blistering Ahmedabad […]
The Directorate of Estates (DoE), which comes under the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, has slapped an eviction notice on the Congress leadership to vacate the accommodation in Chanakyapuri in the Lutyen’s Bungalow Zone. The C-11/109 was once a powerful address in central Delhi as it was occupied by George, secretary of Sonia Gandhi. Although […]
In a major shakeup, the Home Department of the Gujarat government on Saturday ordered the promotion and transfer of 67 IPS and 58 SPS officers in the state. Among the IPS officers, Vidhi Chaudhary, IPS (GJ:2009), Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone-3, Surat City is transferred and appointed to the vacant ex-cadre post of Joint Director, […]
Amid the unprecedented economic crisis sweeping the tiny island nation, president Gotabaya Rajapaksha has declared a state of emergency after hundreds of protestors took to the street. The law invoked by the rulers gives extraordinary powers to the military forces to arrest and imprison suspects for a long period without trial. Facing the worst ever […]
Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann were the centre of all attention at the road show on Saturday morning. The duo visited Gandhi Ashram in Sabarmati around 10 am and then will hold a “Tiranga Yatra” roadshow from Khodiyar Mataji temple in Nikol to Sardar Patel statue in Vijay […]
Aam Admi Party chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and newly sworn-in chief minister of Punjab Bhagwant Mann visited Gandhi Ashram this morning and kickstarted their electoral campaign for the upcoming assembly election in Gujarat. The AAP leaders visited Gandhi Ashram and spinned the customary wheel kept at the Ashram. Gandhi Ashram near Juna […]
The festival of spring harvest is known by different names across the various regions in India. In essence, however, Chaitri (spring) Navratri celebrates the nine forms of Shakti (Mother Goddess). This nine-day festival is celebrated in spring (March-April) and is also known as Ram Navratri. Navratri, or the significant nine-days, comes four times a year. […]
Prabhakar Sail ( 37), the man who shot into prominence in the backdrop of high profile Aryan khan drug case last year died of a heart attack at his house in Mahul on 1st April. He was brought to the Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar where declared brought dead. Last year, when the nation was engrossed […]
Alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar created an international record of sorts at the end of the Financial Year (FY) 2021-22 by their large-hearted gesture of giving approximately Rs 50 lakh for student and community welfare initiatives of the Institute. According to sources, such massive involvement by IITGN’s youthful graduates is unprecedented. […]
The BJP has for the first time in its history achieved the 100-seat mark in the Rajya Sabha after the party won one seat each in Assam, Tripura and Nagaland in the elections held on Thursday. In the recently held biennial polls for 13 Rajya Sabha seats across six states, the BJP lost its solitary […]
While the Gujarat government continues to invest in loss-incurring entities like the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) and Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC), the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on Thursday pegged the consolidated losses of State Public Sector Undertakings (SPSUs) in the state at a humongous Rs 30,400 crore. Gujarat currently […]
Buoyed by his party’s huge victory in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal is betting big on Gujarat as he arrived in Ahmedabad on Friday night on a two-day visit with newly-elected Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for a roadshow fashioned as a “Tiranga Yatra.” Many Ahmedabadis were zapped to receive a phone […]
Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi had challenged the Gujarat government’s decision to redevelop the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad in a petition filed with the Supreme Court on Friday. Observing that the High Court should not have summarily dismissed the petition, a bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant restored the matter to the High […]
In what seems to be the latest tragedy in a series of unfortunate events, a young Ahmedabad doctor working with Shardaben Hospital in the Saraspur area of Ahmedabad took his life on Thursday morning. This is the fourth suicide case of a resident doctor over the past month, in Gujarat? The deceased, identified as Dr […]
The Mumbai unit of National Investigation Agency (NIA) has initiated an investigation into an email threatening to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi by claiming that 20 sleeper cells with 20 kilograms of RDX have been activated for the purpose. According to intelligence sources, the email also claimed that 20 big attacks had been planned in major cities. The NIA is […]
Seven teachers, including two chief invigilators, were on Thursday suspended after they allowed a few hijab-wearing girls to write their SSGL exams in the Gadag district of Karnataka. The teachers were employed at CS Patil Primary School and were invigilating for the 10th board examinations. A few students refused to appear for the examinations, while […]
Participating in the discussion on the issue of inflation in a resolution mooted by Congress MLA Bharatji Thakor, Senior Congress MLA and Congress Whip Dr C J Chavda came down heavily on the ruling dispensation, Bhartiya Janata Party. Dr C J Chavda pointed out that 3 crore persons had to be provided foodgrain under Antyoday […]
India may finally witness an end to Covid-related restrictions after a long and arduous two-year period, thanks to the decline in Covid-19 cases in the country. As per the Central government’s order, wearing of face masks and maintaining social distancing norms are set to continue. On Thursday, India reported 1,225 new coronavirus cases while the […]
When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is on a two-day visit to India, US Deputy NSA Daleep Singh, an Indian origin American has said from the soil of New Delhi that the US would not like to see a rapid acceleration of India’s imports of energy and other commodities from Russia. He was replying to […]
Exactly a month after the Gujarat government, (on February 28), shunted Rajkot Police Commissioner Manoj Agarwal following serious allegations of corruption and extortion levelled by three BJP leaders, another damning charge seems to nail his role in “using his office to further personal gains.” Following the allegations and subsequent case study in February, Agarwal, a […]
