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The union social justice minister Ramdas Athawale said that the Patidars in Gujarat cannot be given the Other Backward Classes (OBC) but they can be given reservation in a separate category, during his visit to Ahmedabad. The minister in a press conference “In my opinion they cannot be included in the OBC category, but they […]
Yet another incident of mobile blast sets out warning bells for mobile users. A mobile phone exploded in Rajula near Amreli district. User Mavjibhai Kwad, who lives in Chhatadia village, was holding a mobile phone in his hand when it suddenly exploded, injuring his fingers. Hearing the loud sound, people around him were left in shock […]
The names from BJP have now started appearing in the cases related to land grabbing, much against their virtue of ‘party with a difference’. More and more BJP MLAs and police officers with protection from BJP are openly grabbing land in Gujarat. Now BJP MLA from Godhra has been alleged of land grabbing of Patangadi […]
Under sections 375 (1) and (2), “wish” and “consent” of a woman are important, but an exception says that it is not a crime if the accused is married to her. Last week, the Chhattisgarh High Court acquitted a man of marital rape and ruled that sexual intercourse between a legally wedded man and a […]
There are a lot of stories that open our eyes, make a deep imprint on our minds, and stay with us for years. That is the power of literature. I think this is what novelist, poet, Tabish Khair meant when he wrote to me in a tweet about the ‘need to propagate strong literature’. So, […]
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd will recall over 1,81,754 of its petrol variant cars to look into and rectify faults in their motor-generator unit, said the company on Friday. It will be the second-largest safety action by an automaker in India. Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest carmaker, will recall more than 1.80 lakh cars due to […]
They may be royal, but their lives are often not royal fables. This is exactly what is happening in the 400-year-old princely state of Rajkot in Gujarat. The feud is most intriguing. The family is fighting over 20,000 crores of property. A princess is claiming her right as a daughter from her estranged brother. And […]
In a big step away from party diktat that frowns upon questions and allegations against its policies even from outsiders, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader has openly challenged his own party’s scheme. BJP’s Savli MLA Ketan Inamdar has dashed off a letter to Chief Minister Vijay Rupani stating that “genuinely poor” people are being deprived […]
A national youth movement, Yuva Halla Bol, has announced that it will be using Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday – September 17 – to highlights the many ways in which his government has failed the country’s young people. Modi’s birthday, they have decided, will be celebrated as ‘Jumla Diwas’ – replete with some of the […]
Not so long ago, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Manish Tewari were colleagues. Destiny saw Priyanka Chaturvedi, a brilliant young leader quitting the party in a huff. She joined the ShivSena in Maharashtra and also got nominated as a Rajyasabha MP. Manish Tewari, a young Congress leader who had Sonia Gandhi’s blessings to become the information and […]
In an unusual finding, a tunnel-like structure was discovered at the Delhi Legislative Assembly on Thursday. Delhi Legislative Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said that the tunnel connects the Legislative Assembly to Red Fort. He added that the British used the tunnel to move freedom fighters without provoking reprisal. Goel further said that when he […]
The Union Home Ministry announced on Thursday that the visas of foreign nationals, who have been stranded in India because of Covid-19, have been extended till September 30. “Indian visa or stay stipulation period of foreign nationals stranded in India due to Covid-19 pandemic to be considered as deemed to be valid till September 30, […]
According to the health department, 10 new Covid-19 cases were registered in Gujarat on Thursday, tallying the number of infections to 8,25,445, while no deaths were reported from Covid in the state. At the same time, it is said that with the discharge of 12 patients from hospitals in a day, the number of those […]
In the context of the pandemic, Depression was witnessed to be a serious illness and the Gujarat High Court has taken a very close look at this when an engineering student was denied admission by a government college for not appearing in the exam due to depression and suicidal thoughts. The High Court issued the […]
Aggressive Hindutva is back with more muscle power in Gujarat. That was the takeaway from the first day of the BJP state executive meeting that Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated on Thursday in Kevadia. It was also clear that even though the state Assembly elections are still 16 months away, the BJP has begun […]
Calling the Centre’s National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP), which aims to unlock value in brownfield projects by engaging the private sector, a ‘clearance sale’, the Congress on Thursday hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that the move will wipe out an entire generation’s efforts. Congress party’s spokesperson Pawan Khera lashed out […]
With actor and Big Boss 13 winner Siddharth Shukla’s untimely death on Thursday morning, fans, family and friends of Shukla were left in a state of shock and teary-eyed. At age 40, suffering a massive cardiac arrest shows how fragile our lives could be. Padma Shree recipient and one of the best cardiologists in the […]
Thousands of State-board schools in Gujarat on Thursday started physical classes for standard 6 to 8 with attendance even lower than the 50% capacity prescribed by the State Government according to the Covid-19 protocol, while several private CBSE schools are yet to decide on resuming offline classes. Officials said a good number from the 30,000 […]
The Income Tax Department carried out a search and seizure operation on a manufacturer and distributor of synthetic yarns and polyester chips having a corporate office in Delhi and factories at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Dahej. During the search operation, many incriminating documents, loose sheets, digital evidences etc. have been found indicating involvement of […]
Indian television and Bollywood actor Siddharth Shukla paased away due to heart attack at the age of 40. He was rushed to Cooper Hospital in Mumbai at 9:25 am today and breathed his last at 10 am. Intially, hospital sources said he took some medicine before sleeping and didn’t wake up. Later, the hospital confirmed […]
