Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has a new fan – Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan.
Bachchan, who has fans mooning over him the world over, has gone overboard in his praise for Modi and Gujarat after their meeting here Wednesday.
In his blog the filmstar states: ‘He (Modi) lives simply and with mere basic needs and most unlike [...]
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) While paying fulsome tribute to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 85th birthday Friday, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani has, however, admitted to differences with him on issues like the Ayodhya movement and the removal of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after the 2002 Godhra [...]
Lucknow, Dec 23 (IANS) Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) international president Ashok Singhal Wednesday accused the police of conspiring against self-styled spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, facing charges of paedophilia and child abuse, and demanded immediate removal of the Gujarat police chief.
‘Asaram Bapu is being victimized. The saints would not tolerate it at any cost and will [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Election Commission Tuesday termed the Gujarat government’s move to make voting compulsory in local body elections as ‘full of difficulties’ even as the issue has evoked a larger national debate in the country.
‘Such proposals had come up for discussion in the commission on many occasions earlier. For India, it [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla Monday said there were difficulties in making voting compulsory in the country due to the huge size of the electorate.
Participating in a question-answer session after delivering a lecture on ‘Electoral Democracy in India’ at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), he said there were [...]
Gandhinagar, Dec 20 (IANS) Nine women were trampled to death and at least six other women were injured in a stampede at a religious function in Dhoraji town in Gujarat’s Rajkot district Sunday night, police said.
The condition of two of the injured, admitted to the nearby Junagadh Government Hospital, has been described by doctors as [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Congress and Left parties have opposed the Gujarat government’s move to make voting compulsory in local body elections in the state.
Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said forced voting was an infringement of individual rights.
‘I feel forced voting is an infringement of individual rights. Coercive measures should not be used,’ [...]
Gandhinagar, Dec 19 (IANS) Gujarat Saturday became the first state in India to make voting compulsory in all local body elections, with Chief Minister Narendra Modi calling it a ‘move to strengthen democracy’.
Amid opposition from the Congress, the assembly passed the Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2009.
It makes voting compulsory in elections to [...]
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Nitin Gadkari has just been handed a crown of thorns. As he takes charge of India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the 52-year-old finds himself in a post that has failed more than one veteran in the past.
Although Gadkari – the outgoing president of Maharashtra BJP – succeeds [...]
Ahmedabad, Dec 16 (ANI): The Narendra Modi government has made a decision to bring into force an amendment bill during the forthcoming assembly session in the State, that would make it compulsory to vote during local body elections.
Once the bill gets the nod in the assembly, it would be obligatory for all residents to vote [...]
Ranchi, Dec 13 (IANS) The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are trying to woo voters in the Jharkhand assembly polls by bringing chief ministers – considered role models of development – of different states ruled by them to campaign for their candidates.
The BJP has fielded Chhattisgarh’s Raman Singh, Gujarat’s Narendra Modi and [...]
Ranchi, Dec 13 (IANS) The Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are trying to woo voters in the ongoing Jharkhand assembly polls by bringing chief ministers – considered role models of development – of different states ruled by either party to campaign for party candidates.
The BJP has fielded Chhattisgarh’s Raman Singh, Gujarat’s Narendra Modi and [...]
Kollam (Kerala), Dec 12 (IANS) Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Abdul Nasir Maudany, who has been linked to T. Nazeer, the alleged south India chief of Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) who has been arrested, Saturday accused the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of plotting against him.
He, however, said he would cooperate with [...]
Gandhinagar, Dec 11 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Friday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek the states’ views before announcing any unilateral commitment on a cut in carbon emissions at the Copenhagen climate summit.
In a letter to the prime minister, released to the media here, Modi said union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s announcement [...]
Bhuj (Gujarat), Dec 2 (IANS) Eight years after the northern coast of Gujarat was ravaged by a major earthquake, the colourful Kutch region in western India put the past behind to showcase its ancient cultural heritage and folk traditions at Rannotsav festival.
The venue was a stretch of ground overlooking the Hamirsar Lake in Bhuj town, [...]
Gandhinagar, Dec 1 (IANS) Former Gujarat chief ministers Shankersinh Vaghela and Suresh Mehta Tuesday announced a ‘maha rally’ in Ahmedabad Dec 6 to protest the ‘repressive and extravagant functioning’ of the Narendra Modi government.
Addressing reporters in Ahmedabad, the two also announced the formation of a citizens front aimed at articulating the problems of ’suppressed government [...]
New Delhi, Nov. 11 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi called an emergency meeting to review disaster management preparations on the oncoming Cyclone Phyan, which is expected to hit the Gujarat coast later this evening.
The high alert meeting was attended [...]
Gandhinagar, Nov 8 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi reshuffled the top brass of the state administration, transferring 80 bureaucrats and 19 police officers in one sweep late Saturday.
The transfers came within a day of chief minister resuming office Friday.
Among those transferred were 36 officers of the rank of secretary and principal secretary and 44 [...]
Gandhinagar, Oct 30 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is down with swine flu, doctors said Friday, two days after his return from Russia. He has been quarantined for a week, is on a liquid diet and those who interacted with him recently have been advised medical caution.
The 60-year-old Modi’s sample was found positive at [...]
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Two more swine flu deaths were reported in India Friday, taking the total toll in the country due to Influenza A (H1N1) virus to 465, health authorities said here.
Also, 62 new cases were reported in the country, taking the total number of people affected with the flu to 13,784.
Among [...]
Gandhinagar, Oct 30 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is suffering from swine flu, doctors said Friday, two days after his return from Russia. He has been quarantined for a week and officials, businessmen and others who have interacted with him recently have been advised medical caution.
The 60-year-old Modi’s sample was found positive at the [...]
Ahmedabad, Oct 29 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has tested positive for swine flu on Friday.
According to doctors at the government hospital here, Modi tested positive after undergoing an H1N1 virus test.
Modi will be kept in isolation for seven days, said a Gujarat Government spokesperson.
The Chief Minister recently returned from Russia. (ANI)
Gandhinagar, Oct 30 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is down with swine flu two days after returning from Russia, doctors at a hospital said Friday.
This was confirmed by Atul Patel, the doctor at a government civil hospital on Friday morning.
The chief minister who returned from his three day-visit to Russia on Wednesday worked through [...]
Mumbai, Oct 24 (IANS) Expressing anguish over his party’s poll defeat, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has accused Maharashtrians of betrayal in the assembly elections. ‘Where did we go wrong? What were our crimes? Who did we harm? We are really shocked…’ he has said.
Continuing to express his pain for the second consecutive day in [...]
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday sought the Gujarat government’s stand on a lawsuit that seeks revival of a judicial report, which concluded that the state police had killed Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others in cold blood in June 2004.
A bench of Justice B.N. Agrawal and Justice Aftab Alam [...]
Bangalore, Oct 2 (IANS) For people in Karnataka who are weighed down by high prices of food articles, vegetables, fruits and flowers, the political class is not offering any cheer. It is busy in low discourse with epithets like ‘rascals’, ‘emperor of lies’, ‘mentally not sound’ and ‘no respect for age’ hurled at each other.
‘This [...]
Ahmedabad, Oct 1(ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had warned first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru against China in November 1950.
Modi said this while inaugurated a community hall at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial in [...]
Surat, Sep 30 (IANS) A total of 5.5 crore additional households will be provided cooking gas connections over the next five years covering almost two-thirds of the country, Union Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said here Wednesday.
He said this would increase the coverage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections to 16.5 crore households in India from [...]
Ahmedabad, Sep 30 (ANI): The Home Ministry has filed a revised affidavit in the Ahmedabad court against the Narendra Modi led-Government’s argument over the fake encounter of 19-year-old Gujarat college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others.
The three-page affidavit was prepared by the Home Ministry and settled by the Attorney General GE Vahanvati.
The Gujarat Government claims [...]
Bangalore, Sep 29 (IANS) Over 3,500 Karnataka government doctors Tuesday submitted their resignation protesting the ‘meagre’ hike in salaries. The treatment of patients was, however, not affected as the doctors have given the government two weeks to either accept their demands or their resignations.
The doctors went ahead with their letters, rejecting the appeal of the [...]
