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Aam Aadmi Party’s Gujarat chief and Surat’s Katargam assembly seat candidate Gopal Italia is one of the young leaders who made a mark with his struggle. Italia was associated with the Patidar movement in 2015–2016, but he wasn’t its active front-line leader. Like a common Patidar youth, despite being a government employee, he went against […]
On paper and on the ground, they’re poles apart; even sworn enemies. But has Gujarat brought together – or rather, exposed – the BJP and Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM’s secret mutual admiration club? This is certainly what the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are claiming. The AIMIM has made a steady progress in Gujarat. […]
Four workers have been killed and 20 others injured after a chemical container burst at a Sachin GIDC based Anupam Rasayan India Limited’s chemical factory in Surat. The dead workers include one from Gujarat, two from Bihar and one from Uttar Pradesh. Serious questions are being raised about fire safety in Gujarat. From hospitals to […]
Romel Sutariya, a convener of Gujarat-based NGO ‘Ek Awaaz Ek Morcha’ has claimed that a massive chit-fund scam of INR 10,000 crore bigger than the Saradha Group Financial scandal has silently crumbled the state after he mustered all the essential testimonials and documents from the local investors based in different parts of Gujarat. Saradha Group […]
Come September 5 and the countdown starts to the 90-day action plan formulated by Congress to win Battle Gujarat. The Assembly elections in this state will be a decider of sorts for the 2024 General elections. Gujarat remains the BJP bastion and defeating the party on home turf will send out the message loud and […]
Medical tourism and Gujarat are often considered two sides of the same coin. While it may be true for urban areas, in rural belts, the reality is far from it. Leave alone specialized treatment, even basics are in dire straits. The situation is particularly grim when it comes to obstetrics, gynaecologists and paediatricians. Medics from […]
Twenty-six-year-old Ramesh is not alone in waiting his turn at the OPD at Government Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad. Weakened by a persistent fever, he is drained from waiting for over two hours in the long queue. The auto-rickshaw driver has come all the way from Waddaj. The nearly three-hour wait for a brief 10 minutes for […]
Gujarat Revenue minister Rajendrabhai Trivedi is in action mode. Close on heels of the Kheda “fake farmers” racket unearthed on Saturday, Trivedi has ordered an investigation into the illegitimate enterprise. The natural question that comes to mind: What are the benefits of being a fake farmer? Well, in Gujarat, many. The Gujarat Agriculture and Tenancy […]
Patients cannot use the cashless facility of four health insurance providers in 300 hospitals affiliated with the Ahmedabad Hospital and Nursing Homes Association (AHNA) from August 8 to August 15. More than 3000 beneficiary patients of New India Insurance Company Ltd, National Insurance Company Ltd, United India Insurance Company Ltd, and Oriental Insurance Company Ltd […]
To aim for a historic win in the upcoming assembly elections in Gujarat, the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has come up with a magnificent organizational strategy to conquer the 74 Muslim-influenced regions of the state. Earlier in June, during the membership drive, led by the Gujarat-BJP president, CR Paatil, the party delegated responsibilities to […]
Gujarat has topped the list of the most number of high denomination fake notes seized in India. According to official data, the government seized notes worth ₹23,724,050 from Gujarat state in the year 2016. In a recent update, the officials confiscated around ₹159,250,181 notes from Gujarat, which is believed to be the highest in the […]
Organ transplantation has become an established and life-saving treatment for patients like Surat’s 66-year-old Mayank Patel who faced many constraints for several years till he was donated a kidney by a brain-dead person. Mayank and his family are thankful to 46-year-old Geetaben Bharatbhai Parmar whose kidney provided him a lease of life and freedom from […]
He is a man who is an MP but known all across the country. There are two reasons for this. One, C R Paatil, a three-time MP, won the Loksabha elections in 2019 from Navsari with a victory margin of over 6.89 lacs which is the highest victory margin of all candidates in the Loksabha. […]
Four days after the Chhattisgarh Government on July 7 finally approved the draft rules for the implementation of the revolutionary Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, more known as PESA, which vests powers to decide on tribal community properties among the Gram Sabhas, the Gujarat Congress has immediately drafted its tribal legislators, former MPs and leaders to the poll-bound State. After […]
The executive meeting of the Gujarat BJP was organised at Sarsana Convention Hall in Surat on Sunday. The major discussion was about the planning needed to enhance the membership drive by reaching out to more people in view of the upcoming assembly elections. The inaugural address was delivered by the State chief CR Paatil, following […]
Even as the Gujarat BJP has engineered Patidar agitation spearhead Hardik Patel’s exit from the Congress, a bolt from the blue that has come from the Gujarat State Election Commission to remove reservations for the OBCs in the upcoming 3,200 gram panchayat polls has become a bone of contention ahead of the December assembly elections. […]
‘I take the oath of God as the Chief Minister of ………. I solemnly affirm that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India established by law, I will uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India’…. Every politician worth his salt always dreams of the golden opportunity to utter these words […]
Cattle-herder Vandana Ben Limbachia has a post card in her hand, a thirsty look on her face and hope in her eyes. She is one among the thousands who have written to “Bhai Modi.” “If you have a problem, write a letter,” chips in Anuben Chowdhury, another aggrieved pastoralist from the area repeats NaMo’s refrain. […]
Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to prove his affection for his late wife. However, Bharatbhai’s actions to keep his love alive are beyond praise. After all, the best way to remember someone is by giving someone else a better life. Late Geetaben, a resident of Kamrej in Surat, proved that death, a sorrowful moment, […]
The simmering agitation under the banner of newly set-up Sardar Samman Sankalp Samiti demanding restoring the name of Motera stadium in Ahmedabad after Sardar Patel seems to have got a fillip as activists from Kheda district on Wednesday sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed in blood. The world’s largest stadium was […]
