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The Crime Branch of Ahmedabad arrested four suspects on June 7, involved in the recent murder of a local journalist, Manish Shah. The murder, which has been revealed to be a contract killing worth two lakhs, was allegedly instigated due to a personal feud. The main suspect’s brother and the deceased journalist’s wife were reportedly […]
Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi on Friday met President Droupadi Murmu and staked claim to form the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre. The 73-year-old Modi will take the oath of office as Prime Minister on June 9, matching Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of holding the position for three consecutive […]
Amidst intense discussions on the structure of the upcoming Narendra Modi-led Union Council of Ministers, prominent RSS officials, including Arun Kumar, the party’s point of contact with the Sangh, met with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership on Thursday. The meeting, two days after the BJP lost the majority in Lok Sabha after 10 years […]
A standout moment from the Lok Sabha election campaign trail was this one when Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav labelled his party’s candidate, Awadhesh Prasad, “poorva vidhayak (former MLA)” while campaigning in Faizabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh corrected himself swiftly as Prasad, who was standing next to him on the podium, told him […]
Narendra Modi will take the oath as the prime minister of India for the third consecutive time in the coming days. In the Varanasi constituency of Uttar Pradesh, Modi won the election, securing 6,12,970 votes out of a total of 11,30,143. The turnout was 56.57%. The name Modi has inspired awe and fear in the […]
Yusuf Pathan was under a different kind of pressure in Baharampur, West Bengal as he was making his political debut and was up against five-time MP and seasoned Congress politician Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury,. “I felt the same tension before the 2007 India-Pakistan World T20 final in South Africa. That was quite helpful and I knew […]
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the NEET UG Result 2024. Of the 67 candidates who achieved a perfect score (720/720), 44 reached the because, ironically, they got an answer to a basic physics question wrong – and received “grace marks” for that. Their wrong answer was based on an incorrect reference in their […]
The BJP-led NDA’s 293-seat win and the opposition INDIA bloc’s significant gain of 232 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections came as a huge surprise for many pundits and pollsters. Even though Prime Minister Narendra Modi is almost guaranteed a third term and an NDA government, the current government will not have an easy […]
Even as the Lok Sabha election results emerged contrary to most of the Exit Polls, in Gujarat opposition Congress succeeded in preventing the hat-trick by the BJP as its candidate Geniben Thakor won from Banaskantha seat. Thakor, sitting MLA from Vav, on Tuesday defeated Dr. Rekhaben Chaudhary by a margin of … votes. The BJP […]
A 27-year-old woman, the daughter of Maharashtra cadre IAS officers, died by suicide on Monday morning by jumping off from the 10th floor of a high-rise apartment in south Mumbai. Lipi, the victim, died by suicide at 4 a.m. at the Suruchi apartment, which is close to Mantralaya, the state secretariat. She was a law […]
The Election Commission on Monday announced that India set a world record with 642 million registered voters in this polling season. A record-breaking 312 million women participated in the voting process in the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections 2024. CEC Rajiv Kumar said, the process of vote counting on June 4 will begin with postal ballots […]
In the recently concluded financial year 2023-24, the Adani Group of companies performed its best, delivering a record overall EBITDA growth of 45 per cent. “Sustained growth in EBITDA is due to a high contribution of the core infra and utility platform, which offers a high level of predictability, stability, and visibility,” the conglomerate said […]
In India’s electoral history, a party has crossed the ‘400 paar’ only once, when the Congress won 414 seats in the Lok Sabha elections that followed Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Even in the initial years following Independence, when the Congress was the predominant party, its numbers were more modest – between 1951-52 and until 1977, the […]
Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has upgraded Adani Green Energy Limited’s (AGEL) Long-Term Issuer Rating to ‘IND AA-’ from ‘IND A+’. The outlook is stable. Ind-Ra continues to fully consolidate AGEL and its subsidiaries to arrive at the ratings and has analysed the cash flow upstreaming available to AGEL from its subsidiaries. As per various bond […]
After three days of the Rajkot game zone fire tragedy that killed 27, the chief of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday said that they have been given the go-ahead to question even senior IAS and IPS officials if the probe warranted. The Rajkot collector said that the DNA samples of all the victims […]
The top leaders of the opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) are expected to meet on June 1 to review their performance in the Lok Sabha elections and plan their course of action before the results are announced. As the final phase of voting will soon begin, sources stated that the scheduled meeting will […]
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday released the absolute number of votes cast in the initial five phases of the elections for the Lok Sabha constituencies. The poll panel released the absolute number of voters voluntarily the day after the Supreme Court refused to issue directions to it on an NGO’s plea to […]
A non-resident Gujarati (NRG) is being deemed as the mastermind behind the killing of a 75-year-old man in Detroj taluka of Ahmedabad district. Identified as Ravi Patel, a resident of Chicago in the US, he has been accused of plotting the thrashing of the victim through contract killers, which eventually led to his death. Ravi’s […]
Residents of Vadodara and elsewhere are protesting against the newly installed Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited’s (GUVNL’s) pre-paid smart electricity meters. Protests began in Vadodara on May 14, with people claiming that they had been “overcharged” on a daily basis, since the installation of smart meters. Several residents also complained of frequent disruptions in power […]
Extreme heat has caused the deaths of 15 people in the state. In Surat alone, ten people died after manifesting symptoms of suffocation, epileptic convulsion, dysentery, and heatstroke, related to the heatwave. Four people died of a similar cause in Vadodara. The heatwave also took the life of a four-year-old child in Vadgam. This summer, […]
