A bench headed by Justice Tarun Chatterjee posted the matter for further hearing on August 6.
The approval is required to put through gas sales agreements with customers, which in turn are required to finalise Gas Transportation Agreements with transmission companies.
The Gujarat government on Monday expressed shock over the decision of the Supreme Court to stay all proceedings in the July 26, 2008, serial bomb blasts case and said the stay was given without even hearing them. "We cannot make comments on the decision of the judiciary. And it is also not our intention. But as far as the state government is concerned, it was very shocking," Gujarat government spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas said.
Inspector N H Dabhi, and constables Ajay Parmar and Santram Sharma were produced before a magistrate by the state CID (Crime), which is probing the case.
Zakia Jafri, wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, on Monday filed a protest petition in a local court seeking rejection of the Special Investigation Team report giving a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the Gulberg Society riot case.
Amid an all-out attack by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Election Commission on Friday said permission to Narendra Modi's rally in Varanasi city was denied after the Gujarat police said the venue was not suitable but regretted the "delay" in conveying the decision to the party concerned.
A third judge of the Gujarat high court on Wednesday began hearing the dispute over appointment of Lokayukta of the state, following the split verdict where two judges had differed on the matter.
Armed with out-of-the box manifestos that promise abolition of income tax and unemployment allowance to educated youth, 48 Lok Sabha candidates of 21 lesser known parties have jumped in the poll fray in Gujarat.
On the first anniversary of the 26/11 attack on Mumbai, Gujarat Director General of Police S S Khandwawala said that the state police is fully equipped to thwart any terror attacks. "We are fully prepared and are also taking pereventive actions to counter any such incidents from taking place again," Khandwawala told reporters after paying tribute to those killed in the Mumbai attack last year.
The Gujarat high court on Wednesday ordered further probe into the murder of Right To Information activist Amit Jethva in view of allegations made by his father.
Major American food chains, globally known for their chicken and beef offerings, overhaul their menus to go completely vegetarian to grab a larger pie of the predominantly non-meat eating customers in Gujarat.
In a move aimed at consolidating its Indian operations, Swiss cement major Holcim will increase its control in ACC and Gujarat Ambuja Cements for close to Rs 2,700 crore (Rs 27 billion).
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on opposition BJP over its "double-standard" attitude towards corruption and attempt to "divide the society on communal lines".
A local court in Ahmedabad on Monday issued a notice to the Gujarat government on the bail plea of suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, who was arrested on Friday on the basis of an FIR lodged against him on charges of threatening and fabricating evidence.
After a strong opening, shares of the car-maker further zoomed 9.37 per cent to Rs 1,899.90 -- its 52-week high on the BSE.
The Central Bureau of Investigations will file a special leave petition against the Gujarat high court order in the murder case of former home minister of Gujarat Haren Pandya. Slamming the Central Bureau of Investigation for its "washed up" and "blinkered" probe in the 2003 murder, the Gujarat HC on August 29 dropped charges against all 12 accused.
The mayhem in Gujarat was the result of a thoroughly thought-out, elaborate and heinous strategy to communalise the society at large in Gujarat, with a view to derive political benefits, writes ex-Indian Police Service officer and former Cabinet Minister of Gujarat Jaspal Singh to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team that is looking into the role of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his ministerial colleagues and police officers in the Gujarat 2002 riots.
A political slugest erupted on Friday over the Gujarat India Police Service officers' issue with the Centre saying it can intervene if the affected officers want so and the Bharatiya Janata Party hitting back asking it not play "big brother".
The Supreme Court Thursday asked a Gujarat trial court not to pronounce its final order on the closure report of the Special Investigation Team in the 2002 Gulburg Housing Society riot case of Ahmedabad.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would pass directions on the basis of the confidential report on the investigation carried out by the Special Investigation Team into the alleged role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the killing of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri in Ahmedabad during 2002 riots.
Hence, the vehicular emission load is likely to rise in the near future as the Union government's environment report predicts the 'vehicle stock in Delhi is expected to almost quadruple by the year 2020.' The increase in private vehicles is being attributed to poor public transport system in the national capital, asper the report 'State of Environment of India 2009', released recently by environment minister Jairam Ramesh.
Congress leaders on Thursday conceded defeat in Gujarat, but said it was "not open skies" for Chief Minister Narendra Modi, nursing national ambitions.
Rain gods smiled on Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and some other places in the northern belt, which had witnessed only patchy rainfall since the advent of the monsoon late June.
Sources said BSNL is now looking at putting in place tougher terms and conditions for the new tender as the original tender was under controversy, with BSNL facing allegations of non-transparency in the bidding process to select its WiMax franchisee partners. More than 20 companies made a bid earlier this year to act as a WiMax partner to BSNL in a number of circles across India.
Confident of a big win in the forthcoming state Assembly elections, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said his party will celebrate a bigger Diwali on December 20, the day when poll results will be out.
Ignoring the strong reservations of ally Janata Dal United's leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance if the party won the forthcoming assembly elections in Gujarat.
A local court on Thursday reserved its order for October 30 on a plea filed by Zakia Jafri, wife of the slain former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, seeking more time to file 'protest petition' against the closure report of special investigation team which gave clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in 2002 riot cases.
Investigation into the alleged gang-rape of three tribal women and a minor girl at Viramgam near Ahmedabad on the night of October 18 has made no progress yet.
A local court on Wednesday granted time till October 25 to Zakia Jafri to file a protest petition on the closure report filed by Special Investigation Team giving clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in 2002 post-Godhra riots.
In a policy shift, the United Kigdom on Thursday announced it has asked its envoy to India to visit Gujarat and meet Narendra Modi to discuss a wide range of issues of mutual interest and explore opportunities for closer cooperation, prompting a jubilant chief minister to welcome the move as "better late than never".
Gujarat Congress attacked the state government over its advertisements criticising the Center's cotton policy.
The duo claimed they were employees of a software company in Mumbai and were in Jamnagar to survey the region for developing GPS-based software for their clients, which happen to be major telecom companies, Singhal added.
The Gujarat government on Friday gave an undertaking to the high court in Ahmedabad that the role of Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly Shankar Chaudhary will also be probed in connection with the case of misuse of Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for earthquake relief in 2001.
Essar Group is a major player in the port sector in Gujarat.
National Democratic Alliance convener George Fernandes said on Saturday that the post-Godhra violence in Gujarat and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots could not be compared.
In signs of growing dissent within the Bharatiya Janata Party, hoardings supporting party leader Sanjay Joshi have came up at various places in the city, targeting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the state elections scheduled in December this year.
The biggest advantage of developing seed banks is reduced cost.
Gordhan Zadaphia, who was the junior home minister of Gujarat in February 2002, when the Sabarmati Express was burnt down in Godhra leading to large-scale communal riots, told rediff.com that he will never become a witness before the Supreme Court constituted Special Investigation Team, which is probing the matter.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is serving 'dhokla' to Chinese President Xi Jinping when incursions from that country continue, Congress leaders said on Thursday taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party and Modi.
Gujarat's isolation of Muslims is nothing new. The roots of this phenomenon lie in the Gujarat history of the last 1,500 years, opines Shreekant Sambrani
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