The Supreme Court has ruled that some numbers of Asiatic Lions, till now only limited to the Gir forests in Gujarat, should be relocated to Madhya Pradesh. The court holds that in case of a natural calamity or outbreak of an epidemic, this will give the species a better chance of survival. CNN-IBN's Environment Editor Bahar Dutt joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Does this also...
06:25 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Ahmedabad: Tremors shook Ahmedabad city and many other parts of Kutch and south Gujarat Tuesday afternoon, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA) official said. "A powerful earthquake, with the magnitude of 7.8 on Richter scale, occurred at the Iran-Pakistan border area, the effect of it in form of tremors was felt in western, central and southern areas of our state as well," Deputy Director, GSDMA Gandhinagar, Birju Patel said. There...
06:12 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, saying Supreme Court documents on the 2002 communal carnage provide "clinching" evidence of his government's "deliberate refusal" to prevent the mass violence. "In the light of these documents which have now come into the public domain thanks to the efforts of Zakia Jafri, there can be no doubt left of the direct culpability of Narendra...
02:56 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Bhopal: Welcoming the Supreme Court's decision to shift Asiatic lions from Gujarat to Palpur Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said here on Monday that the move would not only result in creation of a new home for the lions but also ensure a rise in their numbers. "Madhya Pradesh has made adequate arrangements to shift and rehabilitate Asiatic lions and took all steps for...
10:40 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Monday said it will study the full judgement of the Supreme Court on relocation of Asiatic lions to Madhya Pradesh before deciding its future course of action on the issue. Currently, Gujarat's Gir sanctuary is the only home to Asiatic lions, an endangered species. The apex court on Monday directed the Centre to shift the Asiatic lions from the Gir forest to Kuno Sanctuary in...
10:40 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues moved into a newly-built four storey office building in Gandhinagar on Monday. After inaugurating the new building 'Swarnim Sankul-1' on Monday afternoon, the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues officially moved into the office. "The lamp lighting ceremony (as part of the building inauguration) was performed by Savji Damor, a class-IV employee of the Sachivalaya (state secretariat)," an official release...
09:26 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Ahmedabad: Zakia Jafri, wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, on Monday filed a protest petition in a local court seeking rejection of the SIT report giving a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the Gulberg Society riot case. The petition also sought further investigations into the case by an independent agency other than the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team and...
05:14 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Kadi: India is home to the largest child labour force in the world, child rights groups say. CNN-IBN takes a look at the cotton ginning factories in Gujarat where children operate dangerous machines and inhale cotton dust all day. Thirteen-year-old Amit has been learning to write again, this time, with his left hand. Eleven months ago he lost his right arm while working at a cotton ginning factory. On hidden...
02:55 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has given its go-ahead for the relocation of Asiatic lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh in the next 6 months. The two BJP-ruled states, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, had been locked in a dispute over whether the Asiatic lions should be relocated out of Gujarat or not. The Madhya Pradesh government wanted Gujarat to send a few lions from the Gir forest to Kuno Palpur...
02:35 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Ahmedabad: Zakia Jafri, wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim Ehsan Jafri, is likely to file a protest petition in a trial court in Ahmedabad on Monday against the Special Investigation Team (SIT)'s closure report giving clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the Gulbarg Society massacre case in Ahmedabad. "Tomorrow (Monday) we are filing our protest petition against the SIT's closure report in our complaint against...
09:43 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Kadi: India is home to the largest child labour force in the world, say child rights groups. Underpaid, overworked and going largely unpoliced, millions of India's children are at work every day when they should be at school. CNN-IBN traveled to Gujarat's cotton district to find that the use of child labour, brought from Rajasthan, is simply routine. At first glance it's an image of 'Vibrant Gujarat' with 350 cotton...
09:25 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Shajapur: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday slammed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for making "tall claims" about development, and claimed that despite all talks of progress every citizen of Gujarat is burdened with a debt of Rs 26,000. "When Modi became Gujarat Chief Minister for the first time, the state had a loan burden of Rs 46,000 crore, but today it has risen to Rs 1.72 lakh crore,...
02:30 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Vadodara: A high-powered delegation from the Government of Argentina will meet Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar on Monday to discuss issues of collaboration and investment opportunities in various fields. Governor of Mendoza province in Argentina, Dr Fransisco Perez, who is leading the delegation, said, "During the meeting, we will apprise the Chief Minister about the possibility of tie-up between Gujarat and Argentina in various fields like higher education,...
10:49 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Anand: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh dismissed talks of the next general elections becoming a contest between personalities, possibly involving Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, and said elections in India are fought between parties. "Our political system is not like the American system. Polls are not fought between two individuals but between parties. We should not trivialise the polls. The polls are not about...
10:52 AM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh has ruled out an apology for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the 2002 Gujarat riots. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Rajnath said Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister had to apologise for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots because of the comments Rajiv Gandhi had made then. Below is the transcript of an excerpt from the interview: Karan Thapar: Both...
09:30 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Ahmedabad: Through this summer, CNN-IBN will focus on the acute water shortage that is gripping large parts of the country. In areas like North Gujarat, where those who were promised water from the Narmada canals are still waiting for relief. Even as Chief Minister Narendra Modi talks of his Gujarat model of governance across the nation, back in the state, even before the summer has set in, water shortage is...
09:05 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Ahmedabad: A three-member high-powered committee which probed a failed jail break bid in Sabarmati Central Jail by digging a tunnel, submitted its report to the Gujarat Home Department on Friday, a top official said. "A report has been submitted by the committee on the tunnel digging case," Principal Home Secretary SK Nanda told PTI. "Though I have not gone through the report, the probe focused on negligence of prison authorities,...
10:19 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has questioned Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's claims of being a development oriented leader, alleging that the BJP leader's claims are totally hollow. According to Digvijaya Singh Kerala is a most development state in terms of social indicators while Haryana has the highest per capita income among all the states in the country. He pointed out that both Kerala and Haryana had a...
11:15 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Ahmedabad: A swimming pool in Ahmedabad is creating waves of controversy. The Gujarat University Vice Chancellor, Adesh Pal, is building a private pool with a capacity for 72,000 litres of water. Political activists have hit out at him saying this is blatantly insensitive given that thousands of villages in the state are drought hit. Many are questioning the estimated cost of Rs 20 lakh for the pool, while the university...
07:53 AM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came under attack again by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who said Manmohan was not accepted as a leader within his own party. As Modi goes on overdrive, one of the big questions is as to whether in this era of coalition politics, he could lead a coalition government. The JD(U) for one has rejected Modi's mantra, saying the Gujarat model cannot apply to...
09:18 AM, Apr 10, 2013
