NCP MLA Kandhal Jadeja said his party has decided to support BJP candidate.
The Congress had sent the 44 legislators to the resort to fend off 'poaching' attempts by BJP.
The Indian Coast Guard has seized 1,500 kg of heroin.
Company has taken preliminary tests of 1,181 candidates from state ITI.
Of the three young caste leaders, OBC leader Alpesh Thakor has already joined the Congress, while Patidar community leader Hardik Patel recently announced his decision to back the opposition party after accepting its proposed reservation formula.
India's first teaching programme in Citizen Journalism, a certificate course launched by the JM Foundation for Excellence in Journalism, will be held in Goa from November 12 to November 14, 2010.
The Gujarat high court on Friday rejected the plea of suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjeev Bhatt to set aside criminal procedure initiated against him in the 1990 custodial death case.
The four choices offered to candidates were: Sharad Yadav, Shatrughan Sinha, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Vijay Rupani.
Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, who remained elusive for past five days and was declared an absconder, surfaced on Friday, a day after a Ahmedabad court granted her anticipatory bail in connection with post-Godhra riots cases.
The SC asked Gujarat Congress 'why is it so late in raising question over the use of NOTA'.
The Special Investigation Team probing the 2004 police encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, along with forensic experts, on Thursday reconstructed the events that took place on the day of the incident at the original site near Kotarpur area of the city. SIT chairman Satyapal Singh said that a eleven-member team from the All India Institute of Medical Science and Central Forensic Science Laboratory, New Delhi, was helping them in reconstruction and collection of data.
"The Narendra Modi government has not properly utilised funds for the construction of roads under the Gramya Sadak Yojna and the National Employment Guarantee Scheme," Mukherjee said. Speaking to reporters, Mukherjee said that though the Centre had allocated funds to Gujarat for the construction of 1,100 kms of roads under the Yojana, only 179 km roads had been laid.
BJP, SP and CPI accuse Lalu's railway Budget as being discriminatory, parochial and disappointing.
In this video, Hardik is seen appealing to Gujarat's Dalits who have been violently protesting thrashing of four young Dalit men in Gujarat's Una by 'gau rakshaks' for engaging in cow slaughter.
Rahul Gandhi on Thursday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the violence in Gujarat during quota agitation by Patels, saying it was a repercussion of the "politics of anger" pursued by Modi.
A rash of rape incidents were reported in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal on Tuesday with minor girls among the victims even as a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in Gujarat died after being allegedly raped and dumped in a bush by her uncle.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto for the state assembly elections, saying that it is a blueprint for development of all sections of the society.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto for the state assembly elections, saying that it is a blueprint for development of all sections of the society.
The Election Commission on Monday rejected the nomination papers of the Congress candidate for Visavadar for not providing original mandate in time, paving the way for a straight fight between former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel and the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate.
Raising doubts over the Gujarat government's claims that some 2002 post-Godhra riots-related intelligence documents were destroyed 'in routine course', suspended Indian Police Services officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Friday sought a "high-level investigation" into the matter.
Justices M R Shah and K S Jhaveri ordered, "Not before me", withdrawing themselves from hearing appeals of around 29 convicts.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hit back at the Congress, which had demanded that a sedition case be slapped on him for his 'no tax' remark, and dared the party's leaders to file a case against him.The All India Congress Committee had taken strong exception to Modi's controversial statement, daring the Centre to stop funds to Gujarat for a year and not collect any taxes from it."I dare the Congress government to press charges of sedition against me," he said.
Karnataka energy minister Shivkumar was in-charge of hospitality for all Congress Gujarat MLAs.
The involvement of some Hindutva top-guns in the 2002 massacre and the fact that the massacre took place under Narendra Modi's watch are bound to add to the feelings of disquiet about his acceptability as a pan-Indian and all-communities leader in other parts of India where emotional attachment to Modi does not play the same role as in Gujarat, notes B Raman.
Religious guru Asaram Bapu and four others had a miraculous escape when their helicopter crashed just ahead of landing at a local college in Godhra on Wednesday, police officials said.
A pre-poll survey on Thursday projected Naredra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party sweeping Gujarat, Rajasthan and Karnataka and the party-led National Democratic Alliance giving a big jolt to ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance in Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha elections.
The largest-ever study on caste-based discrimination and segregation against Dalits has found that untouchability is still practiced widely across Gujarat, despite the practice being abolished by the Constitution, according to the Robert K Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights based in Washington, DC.The report said it addressed almost all known untouchability practices, including the segregation of housing, drinking-water wells, places of religious worship.
The High Court has said the matter was sub-judice when it was made public.
Gulail.com and Cobrapost on Friday came out with sting operation details of alleged illegal phone tapping on a Bangalore woman in 2009 done under the reported instructions of former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah -- a confidante of Narendra Modi -- and the state police.
The Opposition can only question us if we stop them from campaigning. The opportunities are equal for all, he said.
A court in Jodhpur on Friday allowed Gujarat police custody of self-styled godman Asaram for interrogation in connection with a sexual assault case lodged by two Surat-based sisters against him and his son.
The bench recorded that Pandey, in the letter, expressed willingness to step down and urged the state government to revoke the notification appointing him till April 30.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ahmedabad police declared Gujarat Indian Police Service officer P P Pandey an absconder in the 2004 fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others.
The government said the mortality rate due to H1N1 virus has fallen to 10 per cent this year.
The Nanavati Commission, probing the 2002 riots, has summoned former Gujarat minister and currently spokesperson of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party I K Jadeja on September 5 for questioning.
The quota stir by Patels has led to the emergence of new leaders on the political scene of Gujarat.
Under attack from right wing forces, Gujarat government on Tuesday kept on hold its decision to seek death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani, Babu Bajrangi and eight others in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case.
The Gujarat government on Monday alleged that Congress is spreading lies on the issue of construction of gates of Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam.
The Gujarat forest department has advised tourists and locals against taking "selfie with lions" to discourage them from getting dangerously close to the wild animal and putting their lives at risk, an official said.
The state government has challenged a trial court's decision to acquit 61 persons in the Godhra train burning case in Gujarat high court and sought death sentences for twenty convicts awarded life imprisonment in the case.
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