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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Surat, July 11 (ANI): Members of Sakhi Mandal, a women’s group in Gujarat’s Surat district, destroyed liquor dens.

They burnt all material and spurious liquor kept in drums launching their drive against liquor barons on Saturday.

The drive followed death of over 122 persons in a [...]

Ahmedabad July 11 (ANI): The toll in Ahmedabad hooch tragedy has rises to 122after nine more deaths were reported.

The police said that now 122 people have died and 227 were admitted to various city hospitals. The city is witnessing deaths from spurious liquor since last five days.

The Crime Branch, of the Gujarat Police is investigating [...]

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, June 23 (ANI): Gujarat police has said that they were taking all precautions ahead of the Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra, which commence on Wednesday.

Security forces staged a flag march in the city on Monday.

Police have planned foolproof security on the entire 14-kilometer route of the procession and particularly in [...]

Gandhinagar, Apr 8 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L K Advani will file his nomination papers from Gandhinagar constituency today.

According to sources, Advani will be accompanied by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Advani will be seeking a fifth term from Gandhinagar after his victory from this constituency in 1991, 1998, 1999 [...]

GANDHINAGAR: With the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani in the fray, the Congress thought long about who to
field from the Gujarat constituency. And after a fortnight of deliberations fixed on legislator Suresh Patel, said a party leader.
With Advani, who is seeking re-election for the fifth time, having bested candidates such [...]

Retired IPS officer A I Saiyed, who had a brush with the rioting mobs in the 2002 post-Godhra violence in Ahmedabad, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
A day after joining the party, reportedly on the invitation of the BJP Gujarat president, Purshottam Rupala, Saiyed said, “I have received over two dozen phone calls greeting [...]

Retired IPS officer A I Saiyed, who had a brush with the rioting mobs in the 2002 post-Godhra violence in Ahmedabad, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
A day after joining the party, reportedly on the invitation of the BJP Gujarat president, Purshottam Rupala, Saiyed said, “I have received over two dozen phone calls greeting [...]

The Gujarat police have intensified patrolling on a highway bordering Madhya Pradesh following reports of a number of make-shift country liquor vends coming up in the neighbouring state.
The police suspect that before the polls, a lot of liquor is being smuggled from Madhya Pradesh to Gujarat, a state under prohibition.
‘It is a usual practice [...]

Ahmedabad, Feb. 27 (ANI): The Municipal Corporation of Ahmedabad on Friday considered several raids across the city and recovered huge quantities of used syringes and other medical wastes, suspected to be the reason behind the recent Hepatitis B [...]