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Gujarat AAP MLA resigns, allege caste bias; gets suspended hrs later
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Botad in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region, Umesh Makwana, resigned from all party positions on Thursday, June 26, citing caste-based discrimination. A member of the Koli community, classified…
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Gujarat HC receives bomb threat on Tuesday
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court received a bomb threat via email early on Tuesday morning. A bomb squad and a police team launched a full-scale search operation in and around the High…
- India
Doctor abuses, assaults Dalit woman and family in Gujarat, case lodged
A 58-year-old Dalit woman and her family were subjected to casteist slurs and assault by a doctor and her family in Ahmedabad’s Nava Vadaj area, Gujarat, on June 14. The altercation reportedly…
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Photo: Ex-Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani’s funeral
Politicians led by Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid floral tributes to former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, who died in the Air India plane crash, while people lined up in large…
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Ex-Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani cremated with state honours
Ahmedabad: Politicians led by Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid floral tributes to former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, who died in the Air India plane crash, while people lined up in…
- India
119 Air India crash victims identified; process to end soon
Ahmedabad: Four days after the horrific crash of an Air India plane claimed 270 lives, 119 victims have so far been identified through DNA matching and 76 bodies, including that of former…
- India
All seven, including infant, killed in Uttarakhand helicopter crash
Rudraprayag: All seven people on board, including a 23-month-old infant and the pilot, lost their lives when a helicopter en route from Kedarnath Dham to Guptkashi crashed early Sunday morning in the…
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Chandrababu Naidu remembers Vijay Rupani as soft-spoken leader
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said that the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad left a deep sorrow in him, which also led to the death of former Gujarat…
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Gujarat Congress leader held for ‘morale-breaking’ FB posts on Op Sindoor
Gujarat Congress general secretary Rajesh Soni was arrested by the state’s Cyber Crime Cell on Friday, June 6, for controversial Facebook posts on Operation Sindoor. The posts allegedly undermine the morale of…
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Gujarat reports 167 new Covid-19 cases; country’s active case tally nears 5,000
Ahmedabad: Gujarat has reported 167 fresh cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, marking a significant rise as the virus makes a slow comeback across India. The state’s active COVID-19 caseload…
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Gujarat: ‘Drishyam’ style plot unfolds as woman kills man, fakes own death
Patan: Loosely drawing on a plot from crime thriller “Drishyam”, a married woman along with her paramour allegedly killed a middle-aged man and dressed the corpse with her clothes before setting it…
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Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and J&K to conduct fresh mock drills from Thursday
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory), which share borders with Pakistan, will conduct a fresh series of civil defence mock drills beginning from Thursday, May 28. It should be…
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Photos: PM Modi holds roadshow in Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held a grand roadshow in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar, drawing thousands of supporters and locals. The streets of Gandhinagar came alive with chants of “Bharat Mata ki…
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For 75 years, we tolerated proxy wars: PM Modi
Gandhinagar: On the second day of his Gujarat visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued hammering Pakistan over its support to terrorism and said that for 75 years India has tolerated proxy warsbut…
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Gujarat: Dalit man assaulted for calling upper caste child ‘beta’; dies later
A 20-year-old Dalit man succumbed to injuries on May 22, six days after being brutally assaulted over allegedly addressing a teenager from an upper case as “beta (son)” at a shop in…
