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Even before the pandemic, four out of five children in Gujarat (79.7 percent) were suffering from anaemia – the highest in any Indian state – according to the latest National Family Health Survey – 5. Since then, the situation has only gotten worse. “We didn’t have any money during the lockdown as there was no work. So, […]
If he removes his ‘P’ cap, a boyish nonchalance comes over his face as you instantly spot his hair loosely playing on his forehead. And as he wears the cap, you can’t escape his round eyes looking straight into you with that unmistakable steel. The two gestures capture his journey from a rustic farmer’s carefree […]
New Delhi: Reports from some websites misquoting, mistranslating, and misinterpreting a Hebrew statement issued by Amnesty International Israel on the Pegasus Project and its leaked database have been seized upon by the Modi government in an attempt to discredit the allegation that an official agency in India might have been snooping on journalists and opposition politicians. In a […]
A young Civil Engineer died by hanging himself in Parle Point Gokul Row House, Surat. After his father died due to contracting Covid almost six months ago, Rishit was under stress. Rishit Zaveri, a Labour Contactor, was under stress for one and a half years due to the financial crisis. Rishit’s dead body was found […]
For 31-year-old homemaker Drashti Parmar and her husband, who is an electrician and the sole breadwinner of the family, it was the post covid hospitalisation costs that were difficult to manage. Drashti and her mother were diagnosed with Covid-19 a month ago and received free treatment at Civil Hospital. The Ashram road residents lost their […]
Less than 24 hours after the consortium of media organisations which are part of the Pegasus Project reported the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal telephone number in the leaked database of numbers believed to be potential targets for surveillance, France has ordered an investigation into the matter. Quoting remarks made by Prime Minister […]
New Delhi: Over the past few days, The Wire – in collaboration with 16 other media organisations – has been revealing the names of people who were either persons of interest or forensically identified as having been targeted by clients of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Those on the list include heads of state, political figures, activists, students, […]
Farmers will be protesting against the Farm Bills at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Thursday. This will be a new phase of the ongoing farmer’s movement against agricultural laws, which is about to begin, with more than 200 farmers to demonstrate at the site. Farmers from Sindhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders are reaching Jantar Mantar by […]
The Income Tax department is conducting raids on premises owned by the Dainik Bhaskar newspaper group over alleged tax evasion, news agencies and outlets have reported. Searches are being carried out at multiple locations by multiple teams, including the newspaper’s promoters’ residences and offices, news agency ANI has reported. Raid locations are spread across Madhya Pradesh […]
On Wednesday, Karnataka became the first state in India to reserve jobs in public employment in favour of transgender persons. The state government informed the division bench of the Karnataka high court of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Suraj Govindaraj that it has amended the Karnataka Civil Services (General Recruitment) Rules, 1977 to provide […]
There is perhaps a gallery of defaulters with the Indian investigative and legal teams. And so, it comes as no surprise when businessmen dodge arrests and flee the country from the clutches of the law. In 2018, Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara, owner of Vadodara-based company Sterling Biotech Ltd, did just this. He along with his family, […]
Having vanquished the mighty Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in the rough and tumble of West Bengal politics, the maverick Mamata Banerjee wants to try a hand at bearding the lion in his den — Invincible Gujarat. More significant than whether Didi succeeds in Gujarat is that she is sending a strong message to the […]
The Congress party now aggressively places allegations on the BJP government for hacking phones of 300 people using Israeli spyware Pegasus. Former Gujarat Congress president Arjun Modhwadia on July 21, blamed the government for the whole incident. He said, “The call details of my mobile phone were obtained illegally in 2012 to frame IPS officer […]
On July 16, 2019, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced the reconstitution of a ‘high level committee’ to implement Clause 6, a salient section of the Assam Accord. The clause is designed to provide ‘constitutional safeguards” to the “Assamese people” and its importance had come to the fore in the wake of the Modi government’s […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday fielded its senior leaders across the country including state chief ministers to try and blunt the opposition attack over the Pegasus spyware revelations. As part of the Pegasus Project, 17 global partners revealed how a leaked list of numbers, which include some who have been targeted with the […]
The 21-year-old backstroke champion from Ahmedabad, Maana is all set to create history in the coming global sports event, Tokyo Olympics 2021. She is the first and the only Indian female swimmer in Tokyo Olympics, Maana Patel. This achievement came with its own hurdles. In early 2016, a shoulder injury almost ended her budding career. […]
Buoyed by her an emphatic victory in the West Bengal elections where she humbled the combined might of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, a triumphant Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced that it is time for a Bengal model in the country, not Gujarat. ‘‘I have arrived’’ — she seemed to convey […]
On his 81st birthday Bapu shares :” I am no longer part of the CM face rat race. I do not qualify for the state legislative assembly, nor do I wish to contest general elections.”Born in Gandhinagar district’s Vasan village on 21st July 1940, Shankar Sinh Vaghela who holds a postgraduate degree, the octogenarian fondly […]
As if giving birth to a girl child during her first pregnancy was like a sin for 32-year-old Damini ( name changed to protect the identity of the victim), daughter of an Assistant Sub Inspector deployed in a police station of Western Ahmedabad was subjected to mental and physical torture and even unnatural sex by […]
This is the fifth incident of murder in eastern Ahmedabad, within a span of a fortnight, a financier Bala Subramani of Vatva was stabbed to death by a person named Jayesh Goswami who had borrowed money from the deceased. The incident took place near Khokhra Garden, this morning. According to police sources Bala used to […]
