New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi accused the UPA government of bonding with the enemies and attacked the Centre's foreign policy, while addressing the Indian diaspora in the US via video conferencing on Monday. "Our army personnel get decapitated and we send chicken biryani to the prime minister of the country responsible for it. I can't understand why the Indian government is asking its own troops to withdraw from...
10:51 AM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday addressed the Indian diaspora in the US via video conferencing. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader's address comes on the occasion of 53rd Gujarat Day. Taking a swipe at the UPA and the recent scams, Modi lashed out saying that the misgovernance of some individuals at the top have broken trust of 120 crore Indians and that it was time to...
08:13 AM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday addressed the Indian diaspora in the US via video conferencing. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader's address comes on the occasion of 53rd Gujarat Day. Reaching out to the diaspora community, Modi lauded the Gujaratis for being cultural ambassadors of India abroad. Highlighting the all-round progress made by his state, he said that the world is looking at India very minutely....
07:37 AM, May 13, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Congress has decided to field new faces and play the sympathy card in the upcoming bye-elections for two Lok Sabha and four Assembly seats in the state. Krishna Gadhvi, who has been given ticket for Banaskantha Lok Sabha seat is the widow of Mukesh Gadhvi who died in March 2013, while for Porbandar Lok Sabha seat the party has chosen former city Youth Congress President Vinu Amipura. Porbandar...
12:43 AM, May 13, 2013
Palanpur: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a man living in Fanwara locality near the victim's house in Deesa, around 28 Kms from Palanpur, the police said. The incident happened on Sunday when the 14-year-old girl was alone at her home and the accused Kishore Panchal (25) lured her, the police said. According to the complaint filed by the mother of the victim, the accused took her to the...
08:10 PM, May 12, 2013
Ahmedabad: A day after an elderly couple sought the district collector's permission to end their life saying they are "fed up" with the "abuse" by their son, their daughter-in-law attempted suicide on Saturday, apparently over the ignominy. Leena Balda (35) attempted suicide by consuming phenyl kept in the bathroom. She was rushed to Ahmedabad civil hospital where her medical condition is such that her statement cannot be recorded, police said....
10:28 PM, May 11, 2013
Ahmedabad: Slamming the state government over the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, Gujarat High Court observed that it was apparently shielding the policemen accused in the case. The court made this comment after going through the progress report of the investigation in the case carried out by the CBI and which was submitted, in a sealed cover to the court on Thursday. The bench also questioned the intention of...
06:01 PM, May 11, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who has been refused US visa since 2005, will address Indian diaspora in 18 cities in that country through a video conference on June 13 as a part of Gujarat Day celebrations. "The event has been organised by NRIs and particularly the people of Gujarat-origin living in USA as part of Gujarat Day celebrations," an official statement said. "The Chief Minister will be addressing...
10:22 PM, May 10, 2013
Jamnagar: A 30-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly killing her toddler son by setting him ablaze at her residence on Wednesday, apparently following a dispute with her husband, police said. "Vandana, wife of one Kishore Vadgama who is a carpenter by profession, today burnt her two-year-old son Raunak alive, after dousing him with kerosene," they said. The incident took place this morning at Vambay Awaas Yojana, where the couple is...
12:35 AM, May 09, 2013
Sydney: Prosecutors have filed in an Australian court for a fresh trial of a former Indian origin surgeon in a hospital in that country for causing grievous bodily harm to a patient. Prosecutors in the Australian state of Queensland filed for the trial of Jayant Patel before the chief judge of the Brisband district court on Tuesday, local media reported. Patel, who worked in the Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland,...
03:15 PM, May 07, 2013
Ahmedabad: The attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq happened just after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh succumbed to his injuries from an attack in a Lahore prison. Human rights activists fear these prisoners are caught in a no man's land. Sixty-year old Ukardiben is struggling to make ends meet. Her son Sunilal and son-in-law Vijay, both fishermen, have been in a Pakistan jail for the past eight months, after straying into...
09:07 AM, May 07, 2013
Ahmedabad: A PIL has been filed in Gujarat High Court seeking investigation in connection with water theft in Porbandar. The petitioners Meldabhai Ranavaya and two others from Porbandar have claimed "people who are distant relatives and workers of state Agriculture Minister and BJP MLA from Porbandar Babu Bokhiria have resorted to illegal trading of water from the public water distribution pipelines and selling it at a higher price". The petitioner...
01:45 AM, May 07, 2013
Vadodara: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Vadodara Crime Branch on Saturday apprehended a father-son duo from Kashipura village in Wagodiya tehsil of the district in connection with the 2007 Ajmer dargah blast case. The two were identified as Jayantibhai Jamsingh Gohil and Ramesh Jayantibhai Gohil, Vadodara Police Commissioner Satish K Sharma said. The duo was also wanted in the 2002 Best Bakery case here from the post-Godhra riots period,...
11:08 PM, May 04, 2013
Mangalore: Senior BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday cautioned Karnataka's electorate against voting for the Congress in the state legislative assembly poll May 5, 2013, as it had failed on all fronts at the national level. "You have seen how the Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government in Delhi has been faring during the last nine years, how it failed to control price rise, inflation and in...
05:33 AM, May 03, 2013
Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday accused the UPA government of "degrading" constitutional institutions and endangering the federal structure of the country. "All our constitutional institutions are being degraded. If we don't give strength to our constitutional institutions, all systems will be finished," Modi said. "A democracy functions according to systems. It cannot be based on individuals. People may come and go, but the system of democracy is...
03:57 AM, May 03, 2013
Ahmedabad: A Special CBI Court on Thursday ordered the issuance of arrest warrant against top Gujarat police officer PP Pande, an accused in the 2004 alleged fake encounter of Mumbai teenager Ishrat Jahan and three others. The 1980-batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre is currently Additional DGP (Crime) and he was Ahmedabad's Joint Commissioner of Police at the time of the encounter. Judge Gita Gopi, while granting the prayer of...
06:34 PM, May 02, 2013
Ahmedabad: A Congress MLA from Mandvi in rural Surat, Prabhu Vasava, was arrested by the police on Wednesday on charges of rioting. However, he was later released on bail. According to the police, Vasava and one of his accomplices Narpatsinh Mahida were arrested on Wednesday on the basis of a complaint filed by former Congress MLA Kuwarji Halpati in the Mandvi police station. Prior to the Gujarat Assembly elections held...
01:26 AM, May 02, 2013
Navsari (Guj): Alleging that the Central government was being soft on Pakistan, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said every Indian "should feel ashamed" over the beheading of two Indian soldiers by that country's troops. "Every proud Indian should feel ashamed when heads of two of our soldiers are axed at the border. This is shameful. India is being mocked at," Modi said while addressing 'Vivekananda Youth Sammelan' on...
11:30 PM, May 01, 2013
Ahmedabad: Supreme Court-appointed SIT, probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, on Wednesday claimed suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was not a "witness" in the complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but a "manipulator". "Sanjiv Bhatt was never a witness to any meeting held by Chief Minister, but he is fabricating everything...(he) is manipulating and has conspired to play media card in building pressure groups to influence not only amicus curae...
11:22 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday moved its teams to Uttar Pradesh on a tip off to arrest former Joint Commissioner of Police PP Pande. CBI sources said that he was key to unfolding the mystery surrounding the Ishrat Jahan case. The teams will interrogate Pande's family and friends to know about his whereabouts, the sources said. The CBI had recently accused the Gujarat government and...
05:48 PM, May 01, 2013
