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Ahmedabad, Sep. 11 (ANI): Fishermen in Gujarat’s Veraval region have now equipped their trawlers with Global Positioning Systems (GPS).

Now, it would be easy to locate these trawlers on high seas and also warn the fishermen in case they wander into the territorial waters of other countries.

After being installed on all the 12,000 fishing boats in [...]

Washington, Sep.11 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who is currently on a four-day visit to the United States, said on Thursday that too much was being attributed to the Centre’s affidavit on the 2004 Ishrat Jehan encounter case.

“To the best of my knowledge the affidavit says [...]

Ahmedabad, Sep 10 (ANI): The Gujarat High Court on Thursday stayed a report given by the Metropolitan Judicial Magistrate S.P. Tamang, which had described the encounter of alleged terror operative Ishrat Jahan and three others as “fake.”

Ishrat, was killed on June 15, 2004, along with her partners Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad [...]

New Delhi, Sep. 8 (ANI): The Gujarat Government is planning to file an appeal against the state High Court’s verdict against its decision of banning Jaswant Singh’s controversial book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Supreme Court was told on Tuesday.

The state government counsel conveyed this [...]

New Delhi, Sep 5 (ANI): The publishers of expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh’s controversial book “Jinnah: India, Partition – Independence” have released about 5,000 copies to the markets in Gujarat, on Saturday.

Delhi based Rupa and Company the publisher of the book succeeded in sending these many copies [...]

Gandhinagar, Sep 4 (ANI): The Gujarat High Court on Friday revoked the ban on expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh’s controversial book “Jinnah: India -Partition, Independence.”

The Narendra Modi Government had banned the book on August [...]

New Delhi, Sep.1 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a notice to Gujarat Government on a petition filed by expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh challenging the ban on his book — Jinnah: ndia, Partition-Independence.

The Narender Modi-led BJP government in Gujarat had banned his Jaswant Singh’s [...]

New Delhi, Aug.29 (ANI): BJP Member of Parliament from the Aonla constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Maneka Gandhi, on Saturday extended her support to expelled party leader Jaswant Singh, saying that the party leadership had treated him unfairly with regard to his latest book on Jinnah.

Gandhi said that the decision taken at the Chintan Baithak in [...]

New Delhi, Aug.28 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat said on Friday that he was yet to read expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh’s latest book – Jinnah -India, Partition, Independence.

Bhagwat’s comment came hours after Singh filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat Government’s decision to ban his book.

Deploring the ban [...]

Ahmedabad, Aug 28 (ANI): After Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi banned Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah, the sale of ‘The Tragic Story of Partition’ written by RSS ideologue H V Seshadri, that has uncomplimentary references to Nehru and Patel, has come under the line of fire.

Sahitya [...]

New Delhi, Aug.28 (ANI): Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh on Friday filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat Government’s decision to ban his latest book – Jinnah -India, Partition, Independence.

Deploring the ban of the book, Singh has already said that books [...]

New Delhi, Aug 20 (ANI): Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh on Thursday ruled out walking away from active politics, saying he will continue to remain in public life.

He also said that he would continue with [...]

Ahmedabad, Aug.19 (ANI): Expressing concerned over the consistent rise in swine flu cases in different parts of the State, the Gujarat government on Wednesday opted to invoke the pidemic Act

Gujarat recorded nine fresh H1N1 infections on Wednesday. [...]

Gandhi Nagar (Gujarat), Aug.19 (ANI): Narendra Modi-led Gujarat Government on Wednesday banned sale of the expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh book titled– Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence-in the State.

The Gujarat government blamed Jaswant’s book for denigrating the image of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, [...]

Ahmedabad, July 15(ANI): The Gujarat government on Wednesday declared that it would soon bring a new law having a provision to punish dealers of spurious liquor with seven years in imprisonment to capital punishment.

The State government has [...]

New Delhi, July 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to give a direction to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to interrogate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the murder of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003.

A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said, “There should be some [...]

New Delhi, July 13 (ANI): Congress Party MPs today staged a protest against hooch tragedy in Gujarat that killed at least 130 people due to consumption of spurious liquor.

Congress has alleged that a BJP Corporator of Mahemdabad Municipality was behind the [...]

Ahmedabad, July 11 (ANI): Rejecting liquor baron Viajy Mallya’s suggestion to rethink the state’s prohibition policy, the Gujarat government said, that he should look at his liquor business and keep out of state’s affairs.

With the death toll of state’s worst liquor tragedy nearing 130, Mallya, the owner of United [...]

Ahmedabad, July 10 (ANI): The Gujarat hooch tragedy death toll has risen to 103.

According to police, the number of fatalities could go up as about 200 people are still undergoing treatment.he new cases were reported from Odhav, Amaraiwadi, Rakhial and Raipur.

On Thursday night, Gujarat Police rounded up over 800 bootleggers and sealed scores of illicit [...]

Ahmedabad, July 9 (ANI): With the death of 17 more people, the death toll following the consumption of spurious liquor in Ahmedabad rose to 65 on Thursday.

According to police, 17 more people died during treatment at various hospitals. Several are still undergoing treatment. he new cases were reported from Odhav and Amaraiwadi during the [...]