Gopal B Kateshiya

Naresh Patel declared Thursday that he was not joining politics “for now”, adding that Khodaldham will instead set up an academy to train youths for politics.

Congress has been out of power in Gujarat for two-and-a-half decades and party’s Patidar MLAs and leaders were aggressively persuading to facilitate Naresh Patel’s entry into the party to boost chances of winning the Assembly polls this year.

All these events were held in Saurashtra, where the Opposition party put in a strong performance in the last Assembly election.

“No fisherman has shown up at our diesel pumps for the last three months to purchase diesel. If something is not done by the beginning of the next fishing season in August, we may well become redundant and defunct,” a Jay Sagar Matsyodhyog Sahkari Mandali Limited member says.

Workers of the ruling BJP’s Mahila Morcha, secretaries of milk-cooperative societies and party supporters went door to door on Friday and distributed the bandhanis free of cost.

After inaugurating a hospital in Rajkot, the prime minister thanks the people of the state for teaching him values and sending him to Delhi, from where 'he has been trying to build the India dreamt of by Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel'.

Even as the BJP-led Gujarat government is yet to take a call on the Chalala body crisis, the municipality’s functioning has come to a standstill in the absence of the political executive.

The BJP leadership is doing everything it can, including bringing in a ‘Patel Chief Minister’ and a new ministry last year, to win back the Patidars who were somewhat disenchanted before the 2017 elections following the quota agitation led by Hardik Patel.

This will be the Prime Minister’s second visit to Jasdan after he addressed an election rally in the takula during the last Gujarat Assembly elections in 2017. Significantly, this is a region where the BJP has faced a tough test.

The Union Minister wound up his two-day long visit to Gir forest in Junagadh for firming up the plan for the proposed Project Lion.

The vessel will offload the wheat consignment at El Iskandariya (Alexandria) port of Egypt after around a week-long sea-journey.

Domestic cotton prices have doubled compared to last year. But does that justify a ban on shipment similar to that on wheat, especially ahead of the new planting season?

Loading was halted on May 14 after the central government announced a ban on the exports of wheat the previous evening.

The snap announcement of the ban on wheat exports has led to chaos at the Deendayal port in Gujarat's Kutch district, with exporters and traders unsure of the fate of their cargo.

This was the third rally in Gujarat by Kejriwal, the AAP national convenor, in quick succession, after a Tiranga Yatra in Ahmedabad in March and a tribal sammelan with Chhotu Vasava of the Bharatiya Tribal Party in Bharuch on May 1.

Held in Rajkot on May 11, the meeting drew enough of a turnout for AAP Gujarat unit chief Gopal Italia to proclaim: “We can be proud that we did not ride government buses to reach there but came on our own to listen to Kejriwal."

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The state government has not made physical procurement of gram from farmers in years. The decision comes ahead of the Gujarat assembly elections scheduled later this year.

Prashant Kishor was said to be batting for Naresh Patel, the influential chairman of the Shree Khodaldham Trust, urging the Congress to pick this Patidar. This was seen as one of the reasons for Hardik Patel's growing distance from the Congress.

Citing a report by an expert committee formed by it, the SC noted that construction of new overhead power lines in GIB habitats in Rajasthan and Gujarat was still going on.

Gondal is one of the biggest APMCs in Gujarat, and attracts farmers from across the Saurashtra region. This is the time when they market their rabi (winter-spring) crops of wheat, chana (chickpea), jeera, dhaniya (coriander) and saunf (fennel).

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The son of Congress leader Sanjay Rajyaguru, Indranil had much clout within the party after 2012, despite being only a one-time MLA, as much on account of his political lineage as his wealth

Ever since the Gujarat govt took over the task of organising the Madhavpur Mela, the village panchayat's income has gone up manifold. Yet, some locals are not happy. What is the legend being the fair, and why is the state taking such an interest in it? We explain.