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Elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur, and Uttarakhand will begin from Feb 10. The Election Commission here on Saturday afternoon said “Our idea is to conduct elections in a way that helps both the voter and the candidates. This year the ratio of female votes has increased substantially in all five states. There are 8.55 […]
AAP leader Isudan Gadhvi’s blood reports came back positive Saturday. Three days prior, his breathalyser sample was negative. This was immediately after arrest following the clash with BJP workers. “Immediately after the arrest, my report was negative. But three days later, my blood sample showed less than 0.0545 percent trace,” said Isudan. He was speaking […]
NCP leader & State Minister Nawab Malik had given a complaint to Vigilance department of CBIT and Customs against NCB officer Sameer Wankhede saying that Wankhede holds a permit room and bar license in his name from October 1997 onwards till date. Also Read: Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik’s Salvo Against Sameer Wankhede Continues Nawab Malik’s […]
AAP leader Isudan was tested for alcohol consumption after his frenzied protest at the BJP headquarters in Kamalam. But a BJP corporator’s son was let off, despite viral posts on social media about the ruckus created after his antics post a New Year’s Eve party. The CCTV footage is testimony to his corporator mother storming […]
Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik has once again displayed his desi outspokenness which may ruffle the feathers of the ruling dispensation. Satya Pal Malik (born 24 July 1946) was also the Governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir from August 2018 to October 2019, and it was during his tenure that the constitutional […]
In the first of its kind expression of zero tolerance to conversions, the Gujarat Home Minister has warned ‘Vidharmis’ ( heretics) of serious consequences for attempting to convert young and innocent girls. “Vidharmis are running an organised conspiracy to convert young and innocent girls. As Home Minister and on behalf of police I warn these […]
The protest of traders against increase in goods and services tax on textile has finally payed off as GST Council has decided to defer the hike in GST rate on textiles from 5 per cent to 12 per cent. Several states flagged higher tax rate on textile products from January 1 and demanded that the […]
Gujarat was barely recovering from the Covid-19 blues of the previous year when a trickle of cases in the March of 2021 had swollen into a nasty ocean of a second wave. That was also when, ironically, the ruling BJP in Gujarat was celebrating its huge victories in the just-concluded elections to six municipal corporations […]
There are two Gujarats: one that sees a rapid rise in Covid cases and the other, more powerful, doesn’t want to see it. When the State reported over 100% increase in Covid-19 cases from 204 on Monday to 548 on Wednesday, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was in Surat speaking at the Vibrant Gujarat Pre-Event Summit “Weaving Growth […]
Sunita Devi, a young woman from the Scheduled Caste community, was hired as a cook at Sukhi Dhang Government Secondary School in Uttarakhand’s Champawat district. She was then sacked by the school, after higher caste students refused to eat the mid-day meal prepared by her. While the school appointed a new cook, a Brahmin, Dalit […]
Sex, films, drug cases, celeb spats and filmi controversies, here’s a list of all the kept Twitterati on their fingers this year!! Aryan Khan’s Arrest in a Drugs Case King Khan’s eldest born landed in trouble when, in October, he was arrested in connection with a drug bust aboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai […]
Quick on the heels of the paper leak in the head clerk examination on December 10, another paper leak has come to light in Saurashtra University. The case was exposed at a news conference by the opposition Aam Aadmi Party which claimed that the paper for the third semester of B.Com was leaked in the […]
The ‘Dharma Sansad’ organised at Haridwar in Uttarakhand on December 17-19 saw an assortment of leaders from the Hindutva ecosystem taking the stage to set a new benchmark for brazen hate speech in the country. “We have to make preparations,” said Swami Prabodhanand Giri, president of the Hindu Raksha Sena, a right-wing organisation based out […]
Change is the only option for better babudom बेहतर नौकरशाही के लिए बदलाव ही एकमात्र विकल्प We were surprised. With the word naukarshahi but yes that’s what bureaucracy is called in Hindi. Our Hindi is limited to Bollywood and those unending Parliament debates. Neither enriches our Hindi, unfortunately. So let us tell you that the Gujarat government has decided that they will […]
When Bhupendra Patel’s name was announced at a BJP Legislature Party meeting on September 12, 2021, as the new Gujarat Chief Minister in Gandhinagar, he was taken aback. Patel, 59, was sitting in the fourth row among dozens of MLAs like him, in a simple shirt and trouser, no way dressed for the occasion — […]
After steadfastly denying for days that the question paper of the December 12 head clerk exams had not leaked, the Gujarat Police have already picked up at least 11 people in what has emerged as a well-oiled paper leak scam. And several others are on the radar. Even as this was the ninth government exam paper […]
Aryan Khan: For 26 days following his arrest on October 3 in an NCB drug raid on a cruise ship, Aryan Khan grabbed headlines every day. When he finally drove out of jail on October 30 following a hard-won legal battle for bail, he was no longer just Shah Rukh Khan’s 23-year-old star son. He […]
Finally, the Gujarat Police have arrested half a dozen people from 10 persons named in an FIR in the alleged leak of the question paper of the December 12 exams for government head clerks. This is the 9th paper leak of a State Government exam in 7 years held by the Gujarat Subordinate Services Selection Board (GSSSB). Not satisfied by the action, the Aam Aadmi […]
’83 and the Cup of Joy This Christmas, Santa Claus brings you cricket. Virat Kohli and his band of boys may have made an early exit in Dubai, but the World Cup will still come to India this year. Kabir Khan has recreated our 1983 win in the UK with Ranveer Singh reprising the role of […]
Notwithstanding all the denials by the Gujarat Government, the State’s own police appear to be close to establishing that the question paper of the December 12 head clerks exam was indeed leaked. The alleged scam has already put a huge question mark over the future of as many as 88,000 candidates who appeared for the […]
