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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 be contesting in Lok Sabha polls from the Dhule constituency of...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Denying bail to undertrial with critical health condition amounts to death sentence: Gujarat HC
Denying bail to an undertrial with a critical health condition would amount to a death sentence, the Gujarat High Court said on Monday while granting bail to a 69-year-old murder accused suffering from a rare disease, Bar and Bench reported.
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Muslim man beaten to death while in Gujarat police’s custody
Irshad Sheikh, a resident of Surat was allegedly beaten to death by cops while in custody at Chowk Bazar Police Station in Surat on Wednesday.
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Muslim blogger in coma after brutal police attack in Surat
A 22-year-old blogger and social media influencer Samir Ansari from Umra village in Gujarat's Surat district who was brutally attacked by cops for not wearing a mask is in hospital in a critical condition, the family said.
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Denied ventilator; “people’s doctor” dies of COVID-19 in Gujarat
Doctor Naresh Shah, known as "People's doctor" in Palanpur town of Banaskantha district in Gujarat, succumbed to coronavirus early on April 18.
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Gujarat: Dead bodies of COVID-19 patients pile up in hospital for 3 days
In yet another grim example of the worsening pandemic situation, bodies of coronavirus patients are piling up in the Valsad Civil Hospital in Gujarat for the past three days.
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Farmers not leaving protest sites near Delhi: Rakesh Tikait
Denying the claims that agitating farmers have left protest sites along the Delhi border, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said they had gone to the fields to work and would return when the Central government was "free from West Bengal elections".
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Ishrat Jahan extrajudicial killing: Case against three remaining cops dropped
A special CBI court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday discharged three policemen accused in the extrajudicial killing of Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh and two others in June 2004.
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Dalit man lynched: Jignesh Mevani protests inaction against cop, detained
Gujarat MLA and Dalit politician Jignesh Mevani, was detained by Gujarat Police, on Tuesday for protesting inaction against police sub-inspector PR Solanki in connection with the lynching of Amrabhai Boricha, a 50-year-old Dalit resident of Ghogha, Gujarat.
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Before suicide, tribal MP Delkar sent letter to PM Modi seeking appointment for “a few minutes”
In an exclusive report, National Herald has claimed that the deceased Lok Sabha MP from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mohan Delkar, who died by suicide in a Mumbai hotel last month, had written several letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, seeking "justice" before suicide.
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After 20 years, Surat court acquits 126 Muslim activists in SIMI case
After 20 years of trial, the district court in Surat in Gujarat has acquitted 126 Muslim activists who were arrested in 2001 and jailed for two years under the draconian UAPA charges in the Surat Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) convention case.
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Gujarat civic polls: BJP sweeps, AAP, AIMIM make inroads
Even as the saffron party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained power in all six Gujarat municipal corporations — results of which were declared on Monday — Aam Admi Party (AAP) and the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) who were contesting for the first time in Gujarat have made inroads in state's urban centres.
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15 labourers, sleeping on footpath killed in Surat road accident
Fifteen migrant labourers, sleeping by the roadside, were crushed to death after a dumper ran over them near Kosamba village, around 60 km from Surat on Tuesday morning.
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Nation stood in silence when he was targeted, children on Sanjiv Bhatt’s 57th birthday
"Today, however, instead of laughter, our home is steeped in deafening silence, the morning, instead of being filled with giddy anticipation of waking dad up to another amazing year, to gifts, flowers, cake and breakfast … is filled with a nauseating sense of helplessness as yet another year stares us in the face, of dad being away from us," wrote Aakashi Bhatt and Shantanu Bhatt, children of Sanjiv Bhatt on Monday morning.
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