With support from other farmer organisations and activists, including RSS-affiliate Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, the potato growers have not only sought compensation but also called for boycott of the food giant's products.
The 8-km-long road show would start from the Ahmedabad airport and culminate at the Sabarmati Ashram.
Former IPS officer D G Vanzara, who was accused in the alleged fake encounters of Ishrat Jahan and Sohrabuddin Sheikh and was later discharged in both the cases, has been given post-retirement promotion as the inspector general of police (IGP) by the Gujarat government, six years after he retired from service. As per the notification issued by the state home department, a copy of which Vanzara tweeted on Tuesday night, he has been promoted as the IGP with effect from September 29, 2007. Additional secretary to the state home department, Nikhil Bhatt, on Wednesday confirmed that his department has issued a notification about Vanzara's promotion.
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While officials have denied any connection with the proposed high-profile visit and issuance of notices, residents of the slum have questioned the timing of the move, which came days after the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation began building a wall allegedly to cover a slum on a route that the US President is likely to take while visiting the city.
Prayers were offered and sweets distributed though people mostly took the virtual route to extend wishes. People also visited temples, observing social distancing norms.
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's brother-in-law and Bihar Congress leader Anirudh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav today met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at his Gandhinagar office.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Jashodaben, who lives in Brahmanwada village of Unjha town of Mehsana district in Gujarat has been given round-the-clock police protection by the Mehasana police.
Modi said bribery was not possible as the money was transferred directly into accounts of the beneficiaries.
Metro cities are ranked lower in cleanliness index and tourist towns also lag
A total of 3,006 session sites across all states and union territories will be virtually connected during the launch at 10.30 am by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and around 100 beneficiaries will be vaccinated at each session site.
Meanwhile, Nitin Patel told reporters in Gandhinagar that this was a ploy to defame him.
Coast Guard DIG B K Loshali has been sacked following a Board of Inquiry over his comments that contradicted the government's stand on the sinking of a Pakistan fishing boat last year.
Through a tweet, Modi said he went to meet his mother early Tuesday morning and had breakfast together.
Scandal-hit Satyam Computer Services is likely to abandon its proposed IT park project in Gandhinagar in view of the multi-crore fraud in the Hyderabad-based software firm, Gujarat government officials said on Friday.
The sessions court in Surat which convicted Narayan Sai will pronounce the sentence on April 30.
The gold medal winners were given a cash award of Rs 30 lakh each, while silver and bronze medallists took home Rs 20 lakh and Rs 10 lakh respectively.
Senior party leader and prime ministerial candidate L K Advani will contest from Gandhinagar constituency in Gujarat. Other prominent names announced in the first list include Navjot Singh Sidhu (Amritsar), Vinod Khanna (Gurdaspur), Shripad Y Naik (Panaji), Anurag Thakur (Hamirpur) and T P S Rawat (Pauri).
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He also said that efforts were on to increase the use of natural gas by four times in this decade and to double the oil refining capacity in the next five years.
The third phase of Lok Sabha elections scheduled for Tuesday will see the maximum number of seats going to the polls in a single phase -- 117 across 15 states and Union Territories. It will also be a test for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party which will aim to defend the maximum number of seats at 62. This time the BJP will be tested in its bastion Gujarat -- where polling will be held for all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state -- apart from Karanataka, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh, where the party had done well in 2014. Here are some of the big political leaders' who await their fate on Tuesday.
Despite Gandhinagar being his pocketborough, senior BJP leader L K Advani is leaving nothing to chance for the forthcoming parliamentary elections. The BJP's prime ministerial candidate is launching the election campaign in his constituency in Gujarat on Sunday though there has been no announcement about the Lok Sabha elections which are likely to be held early next year.
It has also been decided to suspend the interstate bus services till March 31, the officials said. The decisions have been taken at a high-level meeting attended by chief secretaries of all states and the cabinet secretary and the principal secretary to the prime minister.
Party's state unit chiefs of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat were also detained along with the workers during the protests.
In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, where it was introduced for the first time in any parliamentary election, around 60 lakh voters had opted for the NOTA option -- equalling about 1.1 per cent of the total votes polled during those elections across 543 seats.
"All health parameters of the patient are normal and so he has been discharged," doctors attending to Pandher at the Gandhinagar Civil Hospital said.
'The new cases should be divided into three categories - mild, moderate, if a patient needs oxygen, and severe, if he/she needs ventilator support'
A total of 16 turncoats were in the poll fray -- nine fielded by the Aam Aadmi Party, three by the Congress and four by the BJP.
Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surendra Kohli were brought early Friday morning to Ahmedabad.
Voicing confidence that the Bharatiya Janata Party will form the next government at the Centre, veteran BJP leader L K Advani, who had reservations on the PM candidature of Narendra Modi, on Sunday said he will accept any role the party will offer him after the Lok Sabha elections.
The prime minister is checking in with baggage of the kind that will make history, any which way things take a turn, says Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com
Prohibition state Gujarat is adding colour to the favourite drink of Bacchus.
Another Gujarat police official, M L Parmar, accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case surrendered before the CID on Friday.
Rediff.com takes a look at how politicians celebrated Raksha Bandhan across India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, who is on a two-day official trip to India, on Thursday visited the world's largest museum based on life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dandi Kutir, in Gandhinagar.
Now, a panch witness, Manoj Panara,turned hostile in the case.
The Institute of Petroleum Management, Gandhinagar, invites applications for its two-year Post-graduate Diploma in Business Management.
India needs an aerospace command to exploit outer space and it will be established soon, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi said on Sunday.
Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, said political parties should not ignore their senior leaders.
It was widely speculated that the mantle would fall on Nitin Patel.
