While the government is inquiring into 11 cases, the licence of one firm that sold the fake seeds has been cancelled, while in one another case, the complainant farmer reached an agreement, the government stated in written replies during the Question Hour.

He said this while supporting a non-government resolve brought by BJP MLA Bhupendrasinh Chudasama asking the government to make intense efforts to promote natural farming among farmers.

Solanki also said that his request was at first accepted and then denied on the ground that ambulances do not count as “medical items”.

An official release from the party stated that by writing these slogans on the wall, Paatil sounded the party's election bugle while adding that party workers are prepared to win all 182 seats.

Many doubted BJP’s promise of building a Ram temple in Ayodhya but the temple will be a reality in near future, the BJP leader further said.

On protest fast since March 2 outside Khagaria Collectorate in Bihar

'The BJP has been successful in misleading people based on its religious agenda. And wherever the party was successful in doing so, it won. In places where they could not do this, they faced big defeats.'

Though the BJP leaders called these “courtesy meetings”, they hold significance ahead of the formation of new government and selection of ministers for the cabinet.

Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai, who dissolved the assembly on Saturday, ordered the new Assembly to convene on March 15 at 11.30 am for administration of the oath of affirmation.

Sources in the government said that for now it has been decided that only Mann will take oath as Khatkar Kalan is a place of utmost historic importance.

No major tax burdens were announced for the common man despite a financial crunch triggered by the Covid pandemic, but there was no expansion of welfare schemes, a usual highlight of the state’s Budgets in the past, either.

These crops include wheat, mustard, barley, gram, paddy, maize, bajra, cotton, sunflower, moong, groundnut, tur, urad and sesame.

The case is now listed for hearing on March 10 before the division bench of Justice Augustine George Masih and Justice Sandeep Moudgil.

As per the reply, the government is paying daily financial assistance of Rs 300 to the families of fishermen apprehended by the Pakistani authorities. In 2020, the state government paid Rs 2.30 crore to 184 fishermen families.

Patel has been at the centre of various farmers’ protests against land acquisition for bullet train project and express highways, and was spearheading the protest against a Railway goods line in Choryasi and Olpad taluka of Surat district.

Goyani was arrested by Surat district Kamrej police on February 16, for his alleged involvement in the murder of Grishma Vekariya on February 12.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in his home state on a two-day visit between March 11 and 12. Apart from attending a number of programmes in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, Modi is also scheduled to hold a roadshow from Ahmedabad airport to Gandhinagar.

A death sentence pronounced by a trial court is required to be confirmed by the HC under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) . The death sentence can be executed upon confirmation from the high court.

The volunteer — Nikunj Trivedi — has been coaching children from low-income families for about five years now, but the numbers have significantly risen from 15 in pre-Covid19 years to 55 in the recent months.

This is the eight such arrest of a foreign national at the SVPI airport along with a heroin seizure made by the DRI in the past two weeks.

It is also alleged the accused persons performed certain ‘black magic’ on the two complainant women so that they give birth to male children.

On Wednesday, Pune's maximum temperature was 33.3 degrees Celsius, which was marginally below normal. But nights remained warmer as the minimum temperatures rose to 18.3 degrees C.

The rally will be flagged off at 8am from Jio World Drive BKC in Mumbai. More than 100 cars will participate and will proceed to Taj Gateway, Nashik.

Earlier, there had been a demand to carve out separate states from UP, especially Purvanchal and Bundelkhand regions. The last major initiative in this regard was in 2011 under the BSP government, when the Assembly passed a proposal to divide the state into four parts.