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Elections 2024
Surat: Congress candidate’s nomination rejected, others ‘forced’ to withdraw, BJP candidate elected unopposed
BJP’s Mukesh Dalal has been elected unopposed from the Surat Lok Sabha seat on April 22, after nomination papers of the Congress party’s candidate Nilesh Kumbhani were rejecte and all other candidates withdrew their nomination papers.
Elections 2024
Electoral politics best way to reach people: Former IPS officer Abdur Rahman on contesting LS polls
Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and Inspector General (State Human Rights Commission) of Maharastha Abdur Rahman will...
India
Three weeks after Hindu mob attack, Gujarat University asks 7 Afghan students to vacate hostel
Gujarat University has issued official notices to seven students from Afghanistan to vacate the hostel rooms immediately, with five already complying with the orders. The university’s action came in the wake of the recent attack on foreign students by a right-wing Hindu mob while the students were offering Taraweeh prayers on the hostel premises.
India
Sanjiv Bhatt gets 20 years in jail in 1996 drug planting case
A special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Thursday sentenced former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt to 20 years imprisonment in a 1996 drug planting case.
India
Gujarat court convicts former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in 1996 drug seizure case
A Sessions court at Palanpur in Gujarat's Banaskantha district on Wednesday convicted former IPS officer and whistleblower Sanjiv...
India
Ahmedabad blasts case: 38 convicts sentenced to death, 11 to life imprisonment
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 provisions of UAPA and IPC 302.
India
Gujarat: Govt officer conducts speech contest on “My role model-Nathuram Godse”
The Gujarat government on Wednesday suspended a probationary youth development officer from Valsad district for organising a speech competition for school students with "My Role Model - Nathuram Godse."
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East India
“My son has lost 13 precious years”: Mother of Muslim man acquitted in Ahmedabad blast case
"My son has lost 13 precious years (of his life). He got justice but it is delayed," says Jahida Khatun, a 75-year-old woman of Jharkhand whose son was acquitted in the case related to the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts.
India
Ahmedabad blasts: 28 of 77 Muslim men acquitted, 49 convicted after 13 years of trial
A special court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday convicted 49 accused and acquitted 29 accused in the case of Ahmedabad serial blasts in 2008 in which 56 people were killed and over 200 suffered injuries.
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India
Professor Juzar S Bandukwala: Gujarat’s anti-violence crusader
Bandukwala, who fought against the ghettoisation of Muslims in Gujarat was 77
India
‘How can you decide what I eat? Because someone in power thinks…?: Gujarat HC
"You don't like non-veg food, it is your lookout. How can you decide what people should eat outside? How can you stop people from eating what they want?", asks Gujarat High Court to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation while hearing a plea filed by street vendors who have been prohibited from selling non-vegetarian food on the streets of Ahmedabad.
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India
‘Selling non-veg food doesn’t harm anybody’s rights’: Ahmedabad street vendors move court
Street food vendors from Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city selling non-vegetarian food have filed a petition in the Gujarat High Court after their handcarts were seized by the municipal corporation.
India
Gujarat: 100 tribals embraced Islam and now 9 Muslims booked for ‘criminal conspiracy’
An FIR was registered by Gujarat police against nine Muslims after over 100 tribals from 37 families of the “Vasava Hindu” community, all residents of Kankariya village in Amod taluka of the Bharuch district, embraced Islam.
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India
Gujarat: Dalit family attacked for visiting temple
A Dalit family in a village near Gandhidham town of Gujarat’s Kutch district, was attacked by around 20 Hindu men for visiting a temple on Tuesday, 26, October.
India
“Police communalised complaint”; Bail to Muslim men in Gujarat’s first ‘anti-conversion law’ case
Four Muslim men arrested in connection with the first case filed in Gujarat under the draconian anti-conversion law were granted bail on Wednesday.
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India
Hindu mob attacks Madarasa students in Gujarat
Two Madarasa [Islamic school] students were brutally thrashed by a Hindu Mob in Paldi, Gujarat's Ahmedabad district on Sunday night.
India
Gujarat: Hindu mob thrashes Muslim delivery boy
21-year-old delivery boy, Anas Mohammad, accompanied by his supervisor at Delhivery courier service, was attacked after he revealed his Muslim identity.
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