Ahmedabad | The Gujarat High Court on Monday took suo motu cognizance of the Morbi bridge collapse and asked the state government to file a report within a week. The high court bench comprising Chief Justice Arvind Kumar and Justice A.J. Shastri initiated the suo motu Public Interest Litigation (PIL). The court instructed the government to […]
Ahmedabad | Aam Aadmi Party national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced Isudan Gadhvi as the party’s Chief Ministerial face for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls. Kejriwal said that the people of Gujarat have selected Gadhvi as the CM face. “The party had received 16,48,000 responses to select the CM face, of which 73 […]
Ahmedabad | Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said here on Monday that the Central agencies “can arrest Manish Sisodia and even him” till the Gujarat elections are concluded. “Once the elections are over, this all will be on the backburner,” he added. Kejriwal and his deputy Sisodia are on a two-day Gujarat tour. […]
Ahmedabad | A special court designated for the speedy trial of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case on Friday sentenced 38 of the 49 convicts to death under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, while 11 others were given life imprisonment. Of the 77 persons arrested in […]
Gandhinagar: Four passengers from London on an Air India flight tested positive for coronavirus at the Ahmedabad airport on Tuesday, an official said. The four, all Indian citizens, have been admitted to the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Hospital, while the rest of the passengers and the crew will have to remain in home isolation for 15 days, […]
Ahmedabad: Nine people were killed due to a huge blast and fire in an Ahmedabad cotton mill on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters have rescued nine others from the site of the blast which razed an entire portion of the building. According to sources from LG Hospital, the hospital superintendent has confirmed deaths of nine persons. “Nine persons […]
Ahmedabad: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi prayed at Hanumangarhi temple and later participated in the bhumi pujan for the new Ram temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday, his nonagenarian mother Hiraba watched the events live on television. As PM Shri @narendramodi ji laid foundation stone at #RamMandirAyodhya, his mother Hiraben Modi witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony from […]
Gandhinagar: Gujarat, which is witnessing almost 30 deaths every day due to Covid-19 since the last 15 days, on Monday saw its total toll cross the 1,500-mark to reach 1,506, while the almost 500 cases daily since the month’s beginning, took its case tally to 24,104. A total of 514 new cases were detected from […]
New Delhi: Two mild-intensity earthquakes hit Rajkot district of Gujarat on Monday afternoon, a day after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook the region. According to the National Centre for Seismology, an earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale hit 132 km north by northwest of Rajkot at 3.56 p.m, while another measuring 4.1 struck 118 […]
New Delhi: A day after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook Rajkot district of Gujarat, another earthquake measuring 4.4 hit the district on Monday afternoon. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the earthquake arose 82 kilometre North West of Rajkot district. It had a depth of 13-kilometre and occurred at 12:57 p.m. No casualties or damage […]
