Ahmedabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gujarat once again captured all 26 Lok Sabha seats on Thursday while decimating the opposition Congress with BJP candidates improving their voteshare with dreamlike numbers, the highest margin being 6.78 lakh votes and the lowest at 1.25 lakh. If the Modi wave swept all the […]
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Gujarat: BJP ahead, Amit Shah leads by 1 lakh votes
Ahmedabad: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat appeared way ahead of its rival, the Congress in all the 26 Lok Sabha seats after five rounds of counting of votes, with party President Amit Shah was leading in Gandhinagar with a margin of over 1 lakh votes. Among the key trends, Shah and the BJP’s […]
Anil Ambani’s Reliance to withdraw defamation cases against Congress, National Herald
Ahmedabad: The Reliance Group, led by Anil Ambani, on Tuesday announced its decision to withdraw the Rs 5,000 crore civil defamation suit, filed in a court here, against Congress leaders and the National Herald newspaper over their statements and an article on the controversial Rafale fighter jet deal. The court of city civil and sessions […]
Woman opts for ‘Chicken Dinner’ with PUBG mate over hubby and kid
Ahmedabad: Online game PUBG (PlayerUnknown Battleground) has taken the world by storm and has spawned myriad situations and new highs in addiction. Now take the recent case of this Ahmedabad woman, all of 19 and married with a year-old baby, who wants divorce from her husband, not because of any domestic feud or discord, but because […]
Gujarat Dalits face boycott after bridegroom rides horse
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel on Friday rushed to a North Gujarat village after reports of boycott of the Dalits by higher castes objecting to a youth of the community riding a horse in a marriage procession. The Dalit community of Lhor village in Mehsana district, which is also the home district of the […]
Vanzara, Amin discharged in Ishrat’s ‘fake’ encounter case
Ahmedabad: A special CBI court here on Thursday absolved controversial Gujarat police officers D.G. Vanzara and N.K. Amin of all charges in the sensational Ishrat Jahan encounter, after the Gujarat Government refused permission to prosecute them in the case. Allowing a discharge petition of the officers, who are now retired, the court stated that it […]
Ahmedabad court summons Rahul Gandhi in defamation case
Ahmedabad: A court here on Wednesday issued summons to Congress President Rahul Gandhi in a suit filed by a BJP member accusing him of making defamatory statements against the party President Amit Shah at a poll rally in Madhya Pradesh last month. The case was filed by Krishnavadan Brahmbhatt, a BJP corporator from the city’s […]
India’s first case: Man fined for spitting pan masala
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has fined a man for spitting pan masala at a public place in what it claims is the first case of its kind in the country. The AMC has fined Mahesh Kumar from Ahmedabad’s eastern suburb of Naroda Rs 100. He was caught spitting on CCTV near the Sardar Patel […]
VVIP voters in Gandhinagar: Modi, Amit Shah, Advani
Ahmedabad: What is common to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, BJP President Amit Shah, BJP patriarch L.K. Advani, Madhya Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel? All of them are voters in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, most areas of which are in Ahmedabad city. The Prime Minister reached Gandhinagar on Monday evening where […]
Hardik Patel slapped by BJP worker at poll rally
Ahmedabad: Firebrand Patidar leader Hardik Patel was on Friday slapped at a public meeting in Surendranagar district in Gujarat by a man who alleged Patel was playing politics with the sentiments of the community. Patel was addressing an election rally described as a ‘Jan Aakrosh Sabha’ at Baldana village when a man identified as Tarun […]