New Delhi : Aerospace company Boeing on Sunday announced the arrival of the first four CH-47F (I) Chinooks — an advanced multi-mission helicopter — for the Indian Air Force (IAF) at the Mundra Port in Gujarat. The CH-47F (I) Chinooks will be ferried to Chandigarh, where they will be formally inducted into the IAF later […]
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Gujarat Home Minister diagnosed with cancer
Ahmedabad : Gujarat Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja has been diagnosed with throat and mouth cancer, doctors announced here on Tuesday after a surgery on Monday evening. Jadeja, 56, was admitted to the HCG Hospital in Ahmedabad and a team of doctors led by Kaustubh Patel performed the surgery. Hospital sources said the […]
BJP’s ex-legislator from Gujarat arrested for raping woman
New Delhi : Delhi Police have arrested former legislator of Gujarat BJP for sexually assaulting a woman in west Delhi last year, an officer said, adding that the accused was arrested from Ahmedabad. The victim, a widow from Gujarat, alleged in her complaint that she had met Chhabil Patel in 2017 at a social event […]
Cow vigilantes attack two in Gujarat
Ahmedabad : Two persons were attacked by alleged cow vigilantes when they were transporting cattle near Ahmedabad early on Sunday, leaving one of them with a stab wound, police said. Zaheer, 23, was rushed to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital with a stab wound and was injected several units of blood. His accomplice, Mustafa, ran away […]
Leopard sneaks into Gujarat Secretariat, caught
Gandhinagar : It was a veritable wild goose chase for the state authorities on Monday when they desperately searched long hours for a stray leopard that had sneaked into the sprawling Gujarat Secretariat complex through one of its gates. All ministerial and administrative work came to a standstill. Hundreds of scared employees and bystanders looked […]
Rahul blames unemployment, closed units for attacks on migrants in Gujarat
New Delhi : Taking on the BJP over the attacks on the migrant community in Gujarat, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday blamed closed factories and unemployment in the state to be the root cause of the violence. “Nothing can be more frightening than poverty. The root cause of violence in Gujarat is closed factories […]
35 FIRs against attackers on migrants in Gujarat, 450 detained
Gandhinagar : Police have filed 35 complaints and detained around 450 persons for attacking the migrant community residing in Gujarat, Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja said on Monday. After the rape of a toddler, there were widespread attacks on migrant labourer residents, especially from north India, believing that some from the community were […]
Gujarat lion death toll 14 in as many days
Gandhinagar : The Gujarat Forest Department on Wednesday recovered one more carcass of a lioness from the Gir forests, the only abode of the Asiatic Lion, taking the total death toll of the beast to 14 in as many days, even as seven more lions were rescued. Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) A.K. Saxena […]
Salaries of Gujarat MLAs go up by Rs 45,000 a month
Gandhinagar : The Gujarat Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill proposing to hike the salaries of legislators, Ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Leader of Opposition by at least Rs 45,000 a month. The monthly salary of the MLAs will be increased to Rs 1.16 lakh from the existing Rs 70,727, a rise of about […]
Heavy rains kill 19 people in one week in Gujarat
Ahmedabad : As many as 19 people were killed in Gujarat following torrential rains during the past one week, even as the state government relocated more than 1,000 persons to safer places. “Heavy rains have caused a total of 19 deaths in the state since last week. We also have reports of 84 cattle perishing […]