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The work order for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project 'Statue of Unity' - the world's tallest statue of India's first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was issued by the Gujarat government on Monday, to leading engineering company Larsen and Toubro (L&T).
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Cyclone Nisarga slammed Maharashtra coast with wind speeds of up to 120 kmph, making landfall at 12.30 pm at Alibaug near Mumbai. The process was completed by 2.30 pm, a senior India Meteorological Department official said. Alibaug witnessed wind speeds of up to 120 kilometres per hour. It weakened into a 'deep depression' late on Wednesday evening, the IMD said.
"Cases were lodged against the Dalits and how many of them were guilty is a matter of investigation," Gehlot said.
Modi said it was Patels' timely intervention which helped save J-K from "aggression".
Medha Patkar was on Monday arrested when she tried to stage a demonstration outside the Secretariat in Mumbai demanding implementation of rehabilitation package for people in Maharashtra affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project.
With oil flowing past $145 a barrel, leading companies in the country have lined up plans to explore opportunities in jatropha cultivation and prospects of biofuel. The companies are flocking to Gujarat, which has earmarked 1,900,000 acres in the Narmada region for the crop cultivation.
In a determined voice, she told rediff.com, "I beckon the people of the state and voluntary organisations to launch a well-concerted protest to counter the injustice meted out to the people of Nandigram. We cannot just sit idle and let a government destroy a state."
Flash floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 22 people in India and forced more than 1,70,000 from their homes.
Decreasing the height of Shivaji's statue to make Sardar Patel's statue look taller is 'narrow and distorted mindset', the Sena said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana.
The saffron party promised a "direct payment of a proportionate bonus" to small and marginal farmers -- those owning up to five acres of land.
After the public spat over the legacy of Sardar Patel between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Modi will lay the foundation stone for the statue on Thursday.
Parts of south, east and northeast India are expected to get some relief from the blistering heat, with the onset of monsoon expected to take place over Kerala on Saturday.
Fourty-four people, 41 of them school children from classes 9 and 10, are feared killed as the Gujarat State Transport bus they were travelling in fell into the main Naramada canal near Vadodara on Wednesday morning. The bus, carrying 61 passengers, fell into the canal in Bodeli area after the driver lost control. Four passengers have been rescued after the mishap. The school children were on their way to school for their examinations when the accident occurred.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday dedicated to the nation the 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the tallest in the world, and said it will be a reminder about the courage of a man who thwarted efforts to disintegrate India.
Citing examples of alleged corruption, she claimed that families affected from Sardar Sarovar and Indira Sagar project had been forced or lured by officials to prepare fake registries to avail benefits of the state government's special rehabilitation package (SRP).
Conceptualised by Manvendra Singh Gohil, the scion of the 600-year-old Rajpipla dynasty in Gujarat, who acknowledged being gay two years ago, the first of its kind project is expected to be ready to accommodate elderly homosexuals by the end of this year.
Medha Patkar on what she calls the Special Exploitation Zones.
Seven people died and 20 others were missing after a boat capsized in Narmada river at Malsar village, about 80 km from Vadodara, Gujarat.
The NBA has received no response from the PMO after the fact-finding mission.
Patkar has been on fast for the last eight days protesting the government's move to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar Dam and demanding rehabilitation for the people displaced by the project.
Patkar said she expected some concrete action from the Centre on the Narmada Bachao Andolan's demand for rehabilitation of the project-affected people and reversal of the decision to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam.
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd has informed BSE that a meeting of the board of directors of the company is scheduled on January 24, 2003 to take on record the unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2002.
From being called 'paon paon wale bhaiya' (foot soldier) by villagers to being addressed as 'Mama' (maternal uncle) by children, Chouhan's long innings at the top was interrupted when the BJP fell short of seven seats from the majority mark in the 2018 polls.
Like his previous two movies Fanaa and Rang De Basanti, the screening of Aamir Khan's forthcoming film Taare Zameen Par in Gujarat ran into trouble when a group of men forced a cinema hall owner in Vadodara to remove posters of the flick for the actor's support to Narmada Bachao Andolan.
The resulting power produced will meet the demand of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Jignesh Mevani of Dalit Samiti on Monday said the PM paid only lip service instead of reining in the cow vigilantes.
Kishori Lal Verma was the state education minister during the then-BJP government in the early 1990s.
The PM told industries that they must keep rehabilitation in mind.
Bhagwatibai Patidar, who had began her fast with Patkar, continued to refuse food for the 10th day today.
Unrelenting in her demand that work on the Sardar Sarovar Dam should be halted immediately, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar's indefinite fast entered the eighth day Wednesday.
They were protesting against the demolition of slums by the Brihanmumbai\nMunicipal Corporation.
Several schools in the state declared a holiday as traffic was disrupted due to inundation of low-lying areas.
Later, a delegation led by Patkar and comprising social activists Praful Bidwai and Swami Agnivesh met Kumar. But unsatisfied with her reply, the demonstrators refused to leave the premises till they got a "final answer".
The bus was going to Mumbai from Ahmedabad when the mishap took place.
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