Gujarat
Gujarat Congress has demanded legal action against chief minister Narendra Modi and former minister of state (home) Amit Shah over the alleged illegal snooping on a young woman, passing her financial benefits from the state exchequer and misuse of state machinery for personal interest.A delegation, led by leader of opposition Shankarsinh Vaghela and state president […]
In a raging political war over Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir, union minister Farooq Abdullah had now hit out at Narendra Modi.”Even if Modi becomes PM for ten times, he will not be able to do away with Article 370. You talk of debate, BJP does […]
In a major setback to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected his plea for quashing of charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.The apex court, while dismissing his plea, asked the Congress leader Sajjan Kumar to face murder trial in a case related to riots in Sultanpuri in 1984.The […]
The judge was on leave which reportedly led to the postponement. The order on Zakia Jafri’s protest petition, due to come on Monday, will be posted on December 26 as presiding judge Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra is on leave. A source at the court said, “Judge Ganatra was on a 15-day leave. He will […]
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission, also known as ‘Mangalyaan’, crossed the distance of Moon’s orbit on Monday morning. “MOM is now the farthest object sent into space by India,” Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) announced on Monday. A coded ranging pulse is sent to the spacecraft to measure MOM’s distance from the ground. When the spacecraft […]
The battle against Aids is being won, with deaths down, record numbers of people being treated, and new cases among children down by more than half.But ongoing discrimination against sufferers is the biggest obstacle to winning the war, according to the head of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS).Speaking to The Independent on […]
Diesel prices were on Saturday hiked by 50 paise per litre but there will be no revision in rates of petrol this fortnight.The price increase, the 11th since January, excludes local sales tax or VAT and will be effective from midnight Saturday, oil companies announced.The price of diesel in Delhi will be hiked by 57 […]
A division bench of the Gujarat High Court of Chief Justices Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala has held the police inaction responsible for the July 2009 hooch tragedy. Blaming the police for the hooch tragedy, the court remarked that prohibition has failed completely in the state. The division bench directed the state government to […]
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
