Gujarat HC Directs Schools To Reserve 25% Seats For Poor Children NEW DELHI: The Gujarat High Court, yesterday, directed the state government to make sure that schools which are affiliated with the state board should implement the 25 per cent reservation for poor children as per the Right to Education (RTE) Act. The schools have been asked to begin the Read More

Maruti Suzuki India and the government of Gujarat state together took an initiative called ‘All Gujarat Institute of Driving, Technical Training and Research (AGIDTTR)’. The objective of this public-private-partnership was to provide lucrative employment opportunities to the tribal youth through comprehensive driver training program. And now this initiative has achieved a milestone of training 10,000 tribal youths in professional driving. Read More

The country largest automaker, Maruti Suzuki is setting-up a first-of-its-kind Industrial Training Institute in Mehsana, Gujarat. To be called as “Japan-India Institute of Manufacturing” (JIM), marks a collaboration between the Governments of Japan and India to create a pool of skilled manpower for manufacturing in India. As part of Maruti Suzuki India’s corporate social responsibility initiative, institute will begin operations Read More

In July, when the national media was gazing at the Dalit upsurge in Gujarat’s Una, another episode occurred in a north Bihar village, Babu tola-Matthiya, in Muzaffarpur district’s Paroo area. Two Dalit youth allegedly attempted to steal a Bhumihar’s motorcycle. The Dalits were thrashed and urinated upon. The Paroo police arrested two of the 11 accused and an inquiry established Read More

The Gujarat Assembly on Tuesday passed the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Constitution Amendment Bill, becoming the sixth state to pass the bill. The ratification of the bill comes in quick succession after the Chhattisgarh assembly passed it unanimously on Monday. Himachal, Assam, Jharkhand and Bihar state assemblies have also passed the Bill. The state assembly of Gujarat had convened Read More

The protest rally by Dalits in Una in Gujarat on the independence day has come in for praise from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who said it was the people’s response to the “farce” of Sangh Parivar’s love for Dalits and that the movement had far reaching consequences in national politics. “The Declaration of Independence echoed in Una (Gujarat), during Read More

A day after a Pakistani national was arrested from near Vighakot border in Kutch, Border Security Force (BSF) seized two Pakistani fishing boats from Harami Nala off Kutch coast but fishermen on board managed to run away. At about 10:50 PM on Tuesday, a special party of water wing of BSF on board speed boats spotted two Pakistani fishermen aboard Read More

BJP President Amit Shah met party leaders and Ministers in Gujarat, where Assembly election is due in late 2017, and discussed organisational matters. Shah, who arrived in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, is expected to stay till Friday and meet some more leaders, said Gujarat BJP media convener Harshad Patel. Several top BJP leaders and Ministers, including state unit chief and Transport Read More

Retired IPS officer and a key accused in faux come across cases, DG Vanzara’s son Arjun, a category-II officer, on July 5 was caught red-surpassed alongside along with his subordinate officer with the aid of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths in Vadodara even as accepting Rs seventy five,000 as bribe. Arjun Vanzara is a mamlatdar (executive Justice of the Peace) Read More

BJP President Amit Shah on Monday addressed party employees in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh ahead of nation assembly elections scheduled in 2017. In his speech, Shah stated: “after I went to Gujarat, humans instructed me that top Minister Narendra Modi belonged to that country however it isn’t always the case anymore.” “PM Modi is now an MP from Varanasi, he is Read More