Western India
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
Genocidal speech against Muslims: Kajal ‘Hindustani’ arrested in Gujarat
Hindutva activist Kajal ‘Hindustani’, infamous for her genocidal speeches against Muslims, was arrested on Sunday in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district for delivering a hate speech on Ram Navami that caused violence in Una town on April 1.
India
Rahul Gandhi gets bail by Surat court in defamation case, next hearing on April 13
Congress former chief Rahul Gandhi was Monday granted bail by a Surat court in a defamation case over his 2019 remark about thieves with the surname Modi.
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India
Ram Navami violence: Vadodara police accused of targeting Muslims; Women, mentally ill man, students among those booked
Violence and vandalism have marred Ram Navami Processions in several states of India, targeting Muslims.
India
2002 genocide: Gujarat court acquits 26 men accused of gang rape, murder of dozen Muslims
A Gujarat court has acquitted all 26 Hindu men accused of gang rape and murder of more than a dozen Muslims in separate incidents in Kalol during Muslim genocide in 2002, for want of evidence in the 20-year-old case.
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India
Gujarat HC quashes CIC’s order to provide Info on PM Modi’s degree, Kejriwal fined for RTI
Gujarat High Court on Friday quashed and set aside orders of the Chief Information Commission directing Gujarat University and the Public Information Officer of the Prime Minister to furnish...
India
Bilkis Bano: Gangrape convict on stage with BJP MP, MLA at Gujarat govt event
At a recent government event on Saturday, one of the 11 people convicted in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case and was released last year due to Gujarat's remission policy, appeared alongside Jasvantsinh Bhabhor, a member of parliament from the BJP representing Dahod, and his brother Shailesh Bhabhor, a BJP legislator from Limkheda.
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India
Rahul Gandhi gets two year jail term for remarks against PM Modi, gets bail for 30 days
A Court in Gujarat's Surat District Thursday convicted former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case for his remarks “why all thieves share the Modi surname” made during a public speech in Karol in April 2019.
Western India
Two men died while cleaning drainage in Gujarat
Two men — a worker and a contractor — died after inhaling toxic gas while cleaning an underground drainage line in Gujarat’s Rajkot.
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India
NIA court convicts 2 Muslim brothers accused of ISIS links to 10 years’ imprisonment
A special NIA court in Ahmedabad on 28 February sentenced two Muslim brothers Naeem Ramodia and Wasim Ramodia to 10 years of imprisonment.
India
SC dismisses whistleblower Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea, imposes Rs 10,000 costs for challenging HC order
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by former IPS officer and whistleblower Sanjiv Bhatt challenging a Gujarat High Court order which set a deadline for the trial in an alleged drug planting case in which he is an accused, Live Law reported.
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Central India
“He was harrased because of Dalit identity. He told me about this,” says IIT-B student Darshan’s father
In a 58-second public appeal video, Ramesh Solanki, father of the first-year B Tech Dalit student at IIT Bombay, who died by suicide on 12 February, asked people to participate in a candle march on 19 February so that “Darshan gets justice."
India
SC asks CBI, Gujarat Govt why they want Teesta Setalvad in jail
The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the CBI and the Gujarat government as to why they want to send human rights activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand back in jail after they have been out for over seven years on anticipatory bail.
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