BJP on Saturday declared that Bollywood actor Paresh Rawal will be its candidate from Ahmedabad East. There has been a lot of speculation over who would be BJP’s candidate from Ahmedabad East, the seat of seven-time MP Harin Pathak. The seat even became a bone of contention between party patriarch L K Advani... - 24 Mar 14, 2:45am -
IIM, Ahmedabad, held its 49th Annual Convocation on Saturday. A total of 524 students of post-graduate and fellowship programmes received diplomas and titles. Hemant Mundra... - 24 Mar 14, 2:26am -
To enable women fighting against crime, the Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (GFSU) in Gandhinagar, in collaboration with a company of forensic experts, is gearing up to launch the ‘Nirbhaya Investigation Van’. The idea is to ensure forensic evidence is collected from the scene of crime at the earliest and female victims of crimes... - 24 Mar 14, 2:26am -
Eight people, including two children, were killed on Saturday when a tanker carrying flammable chemical turned turtle, rammed stationary vehicles and burst into flames on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway No 8. The incident took place around 2.30 pm on Saturday near Charoti Naka in Dahanu. The driver and cleaner of the tanker ... - 24 Mar 14, 2:26am -
There was a spike in cases of cheating and other irregularities in the board examination conducted on Saturday. A total of 26 cases of cheating were reported across the state. A dummy writer was caught from Vivekanand High School in Amraiwadi. Lalitkumar Kunil appeared for the English paper of commerce stream... - 24 Mar 14, 2:26am -
The state home department transferred three IPS officers and five deputy superintendent of police on Saturday. The transfers were ordered after taking the relevant permission from the Election Commission... - 24 Mar 14, 2:26am -
Notice the distance between former model Mehr Jesia and her sparsely filled plate as she relaxes after the launch of chef Vicky Ratnani’s book ... - 23 Mar 14, 11:35pm -
Keeping in mind the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSEB) has decided to declare the results for Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) by the end of May. ... - 23 Mar 14, 2:30am -
The BJP on Friday snubbed senior leader Jaswant Singh, denying him a ticket for the Lok Sabha elections from Barmer in Rajasthan and instead decided to field Col Sonaram Choudhary from the seat, which Singh was keen on.... - 23 Mar 14, 2:17am -
A PIL seeking details of Chief Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Sadbhavna’ fasts expenditure was withdrawn from the High Court on Friday. The petitioner K M Paul had moved the PIL in Gujarat High Court on Thursday, seeking details of the expenditure incurred by the state government on Modi's 'Sadbhavna' fasts in 2011. ... - 23 Mar 14, 2:17am -
It may be recalled that terror group Indian Mujahideen last year tried to target Modi and planted nearly a dozen bombs at his Patna rally. - 8 Jan 14, 5:21am -
A single-judge bench of HC comprising Justice A J Desai has passed an order in this regard and kept it for further hearing on January 10. - 8 Jan 14, 5:19am -
Though Patel has not heard from Anandi so far, sources said the truce is the result of Anar, their daughter. Sources said Anandi had relied on Anar to handle the situation. - 7 Jan 14, 5:01am -
Mafatbhai Patel, the estranged husband of Gujarat revenue minister Anandiben Patel, who had on January 3 publicly announced to join Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), creating ripples in the state BJP, has postponed his decision under family pressure. - 7 Jan 14, 4:59am -
An Aam Aadmi Party worker, Dinesh Wankar, was arrested by the Manjalpur police in Vadodara after a police sub-inspector of the traffic department lodged a formal complaint. - 7 Jan 14, 4:55am -
Activist Teesta Setalvad has alleged that the complaint filed against her, for allegedly usurping Rs 1.51 crore collected for turning Gulbarg Society into a museum, is a part of sinister campaign to derail the Zakia Jafri protest petition against Narendra Modi and others. - 7 Jan 14, 4:53am -
A police constable was killed and 25 others were injured as a Veraval-bound bus of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSTRC) fell off a bridge in Vanthali taluka of Junagadh district on Monday. - 7 Jan 14, 4:52am -
AAP National Executive Committee Member Anand Kumar, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, visited AAP state officer here on Monday and held discussions with more than 100 volunteers present there. - 7 Jan 14, 4:51am -
The Gujarat High Court (HC) on Monday allowed Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) to implement a no-confidence motion passed by its board members against its chairman Vipul Chaudhary. - 7 Jan 14, 4:49am -
A top official of the Gujarat police dissuaded university students in Surat from clapping as he felt that "only eunuchs clap". The comment came from N D Solanki, Deputy Commissioner of police (DCP) Surat Zone 2, when he went to inaugurate a four-day Inter University Tennis Tournament, organised by Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) on Saturday. - 5 Jan 14, 3:03am -
Former Vadodara Mayor and Padma Shri-awarded surgeon Vitthalbhai Patel died late Friday night at a private hospital, where he was admitted following a severe heart attack. Patel, 81, is survived by his wife and four daughters. - 5 Jan 14, 2:55am -
CBI has established in the investigation that Jethava was murdered at the behest of Solanki as the Saffron leader''s illegal mining activities, including illegal lifting of soft muram in prohibited area, were being exposed. - 5 Jan 14, 2:52am -
Gujarat forest department and researchers of an NGO made an attempt to satellite-tag a whale shark off Sutrapada coast in Gir Somnath district on Friday, but the operation remained unsuccessful after the tag got entangled in fishing net. - 4 Jan 14, 5:20am -
Nearly three years after they were allocated flats under the Centre''s JNNURM scheme, thousands of beneficiaries have come under the scanner of the civic body. - 4 Jan 14, 5:10am -
Ahmedabad Collector and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) on Friday conducted public hearing for the proposed Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) at Dholera that was attended by the DSIR Authority officials, revenue officials and around 2,000 villagers affected by the project. - 4 Jan 14, 5:09am -
On Friday, State Minister for Revenue and Urban Development Anandiben Patel was busy holding meetings with top secretaries from various departments at her office in Swarnim Sankul-I in the secretariat in Gandhinagar. Spokespersons Saurabh Patel and Nitin Patel were seen around her office. - 4 Jan 14, 5:00am -
The Vadodara AAP workers, armed with their brooms sat outside the district collectorate office to "awaken" people to clean politics. - 2 Jan 14, 5:57am -
The officers, who reconstructed the encounter site near the Narmada canal in Harni on Tuesday, will submit their report to the Gujarat HC. - 1 Jan 14, 12:36am -
The BJP state unit has crossed out Ramabai Ambedkar Maidan where Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav held his rally on November 21. - 1 Jan 14, 12:32am -
The curtain fell on the three-day annual Vikram Sarabhai International Arts Festival, hosted by city-based Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, in Ahmedabad on Monday. - 31 Dec 13, 3:13am -
