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Temporary staff of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation,AMC’s new west zone went on strike to press their demand for permanent employment in the AMC. A large number of municipal workers, including valve operators who attend to drainage and water supply valves and sanitary workers, stayed away from work on Tuesday in the new west zone. The areas […]
Even after four months of time gap and killing of over 60 people and 40,000 displaced people following communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, only 294 people have been arrested despite the investigation team naming nearly 6000 people as accused.
The first session of the new Delhi assembly begins today – a seven-day sitting in which Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has to prove that his Aam Aadmi Party has the numbers to continue to govern Delhi.He is expected to seek a confidence vote tomorrow. AAP has 28 MLAs; Mr Kejriwal needs 36, over half of […]
New Zealand was one of the first countries to hear the bells, with fireworks erupting from the top of Auckland’s Sky Tower at 11am UK time. In Australia a phenomenal display over Sydney Harbour Bridge was preceded by a clip of the Queen opening the Opera House 40 years ago. The colossal array of fireworks […]
Formula One legend Michael Schumacher remained in an induced coma today after spending a third night in hospital with severe brain injuries sustained during a skiing accident in the French Alps. The German racing great entered the new year in a critical condition with his family at his bedside and doctors unsure of his future […]
The Nanavati commission investigating the communal riots of 2002 has got yet another extension — its 21st — for six more months. Sources said that this means that the commission is likely to come up with its final report only after the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.On Tuesday, the state government extended its term till June […]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday managed to keep his political outfit intact and denied reports of rift by saying that a key party MLA Vinod Kumar Binny is not upset with his decision to allocate Cabinet berth to a few elected leaders.”Binny is not miffed, he met me Tuesday evening at […]
After a decade, Gujarat will get a Lokayukta as Justice (retd) D P Buch takes oath at a ceremony organized in Raj Bhavan banquet hall in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. The oath will be administered by governor Kamla in the presence of chief minister Narendra Modi.Buch was appointed as the Lokayukta a few days back by […]
The first Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre of India’s maiden mission to Mars was today carried out successfully by Isro scientists on the spacecraft, which is presently travelling some 2.9 million kilometres away from Earth. “The first Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) of Spacecraft was carried out successfully at 06:30hrs (IST) by firing the 22 Newton Thrusters for […]
A court in Ahmedabad is likely to deliver its verdict on Thursday on Zakia Jafri’s protest petition challenging the clean chit to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and others in the Gulbarg Society massacre case
