Kamal Saiyed

Being positioned as a future alternative to Jawaharlal Nehru Port or JNPT in Mumbai, the Gujarat government has been planning to develop a port in Valsad since 1997.

On Tuesday, the Nargol Gram Panchayat held a general board meeting and passed a resolution opposing the development of the port, fearing it would affect the livelihood of farmers and fishermen. There are 14 elected members, including the sarpanch, in Nargol Panchayat.

On December 10, 2020, the Railway Ministry approved the proposal to scrap services of 11 “uneconomic branch lines” and narrow gauge sections of the Western Railway, including three from Gujarat. These included the Billimora-Vaghai train, which was started by the Gaekwad dynasty of princely state of Baroda in 1913.

The party has also decided to use the ward committee grant of Rs 1 crore per year for the public works as per citizens’ demands.

The committees will examine the requisitions on a case-to-case basis, given the shortage of the drug with health officials saying that districts would have to adopt a fragmented policy of distribution.

Chief minister Vijay Rupani announces ex-gratia aid of Rs 4 lakh for kin of victims.

Lockdown and curfew timings in other states too have affected the textile business in Surat, said Pramod Chaudhary, former president of Southern Gujarat Textile processing Association.

Kishan was arrested for allegedly morphing a video of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani using Taylor Swift's song, 'I knew you were trouble', and circulating it on social media. He was let out on bail later after his statement was recorded.

For the relatives of deceased patients, queues begin from the wait at hospitals for their dear one's body, for hearse vans to take them to the resting place, to finding a furnace free at a crematorium -- the time for each disposal/cremation has increased because of the Covid-19 protocol.

Only those seeking the Remdesivir injections were allowed inside.

During the first wave, which saw the peak in September last year, the highest oxygen consumption was recorded on September 21 at 240 MT. On October 1 2020, the state consumed 214 MT.

On Friday, state BJP president C R Paatil had announced, the Surat BJP had made arrangements of 5,000 such injections and those who are in need should personally visit the Surat BJP office with patients medical treatment documents.

Surat-based writer-director Abhishek Galshar’s idea culminated in a 4 minute, 20 second Hindi film on the situation of a poor family during the Covid-induced nationwide lockdown

Delkar, MP from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, was found hanging in a room at Hotel Sea Green South in Marine Drive on February 22.

Over 19 years after they were arrested, the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Surat has acquitted all 127 persons accused of “promoting a banned organisation”, the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in 2001. What is the case?

BJP corporator of ward number 21 Vrajesh Unadkat has requested his friends to bring "raddi" (old newspapers) in place of bouquets and garlands, which he will sell to buy notebooks for needy students.

The BJP, which recorded a landslide win in Narmada district — a Congress bastion in the local body polls, wiped out the Congress and BTP in the district panchayat as well as five taluka panchayats.

It came over two months after he put out a video threatening to resign over alleged harassment by local administration officials of the UT.

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, who congratulated the people of Gujarat for on Twitter for "the beginning of a new politics", is expected to arrive in Surat to participate in a victory rally on February 26.

A total of 192 seats in Ahmedabad, 72 in Rajkot, 64 in Jamnagar, 52 in Bhavnagar, 76 in Vadodara and 120 in Surat were up for grabs in the elections. The AAP had fielded 470 candidates across the six corporations.

Police said his body was found hanging from the ceiling fan at around 2 pm and a note running over four pages, written in Gujarati, was recovered from his room.

This is the highest number of tickets given to Muslims in this district by the BJP so far, says district unit president Marutisinh Atodariya. Some of the nominees were with the Congress earlier.

The city employs nearly 15 lakh migrants from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand in its textile and diamond industries which powers the city's economy.

Junagadh Agricultural Unive-rsity’s (JAU) cattle breeding farm (CBF), among the oldest organised farms in the state, too has 1,100 heads of the coveted purebred Gir cattle and Jaffrabadi buffaloes.