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NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted, allegedly by two hawkers, at New Delhi Railway Station on Sunday evening. Police said both the accused were arrested. The victim had to board a train for Gujarat. According to police, the victim had gone to Chandigarh, along with her family, for some rituals and lived there […]

NEW DELHI: Former President Ram Nath Kovind is a “passionate champion of social transformation, speaking for the poor, the historically excluded and oppressed, and the marginalised”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote in a letter. In a letter to Kovind on his last working day as 14th President of India, the PM hailed him as a person […]

NEW DELHI: Congress party on Saturday dismissed Gujarat Police’s Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) claims that social activist Teesta Setalvad was part of a “larger conspiracy” carried out at the behest of late party leader Ahmed Patel to dismiss the Narendra Modi government in the state after the 2002 riots. In a statement, Congress general secretary […]

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested two people, including a senior official of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and a representative of a private firm GHV (India) Private Ltd in connection with an alleged bribery case of Rs 10 lakh. A CBI official said that the agency sleuths […]

GANDHINAGAR: Ahead of the crucial assembly elections in Gujarat later this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the Medical College in Navsari. The 446-bed hospital, when completed, will cater for the needs of over one crore people from 2,397 villages in five districts. According to Gujarat government officials, Prime Minister […]

GANDHINAGAR: Ahead of crucial assembly elections in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the ambitious Astol project on June 10, which aims to provide water to 174 villages in the Valsad district, during his one day visit to the state. The Gujarat government in a statement said, “The Prime Minister will dedicate several big […]

  GANDHINAGAR: With the assembly elections just a few months away, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) further strengthened its ranks as its effort to woo the Patidar community got a big boost with the inclusion of community leader Hardik Patel on Thursday. Hardik, who resigned from the Congress last month, was inducted into the […]

NEW DELHI: Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who quit the Congress earlier this month, is all set to join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat on Thursday, party leaders said. According to Gujarat BJP leaders, Patel, who quit the Congress, will be joining the party in the presence of state unit chief CR Patil. […]

NEW DELHI: Patidar Gujarat leader Hardik Patel, who took the 2017 elections by storm in his home state, is no longer cryptic about his posts on social media as he announced to quit the Congress party, barely three days after Chintan Shivir in Udaipur concluded. In his resignation letter to party interim Chief Sonia Gandhi, Patel […]

  NEW DELHI: The rising price of fuel has undoubtedly affected the life of the common people. With India having one of the highest tax rates for fuel, there has been a constant call for the reduction of taxes. Prominent states like Karnataka and Gujarat were among the first to reduce the rates in November […]