Category: Gujarat, India

PM Modi in Somnath: ‘Indira Gandhi nationalised banks but didn’t help poor to open accounts’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the dedication ceremony of a Four-Lane Extradosed Bridge over the Narmada in Bharuch on Tuesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday criticised former prime minister Indira Gandhi saying she nationalised banks across the country claiming that it was for the betterment of the poor, but did not actually ensure that they had access to banking facilities.

‘Will kill lawyers who defend Gujarat IS suspects’

RAJKOT: A lesser known right-wing outfit in Jamnagar has issued a brazen threat to murder lawyers and their families who defend the two arrested ISIS suspects in the court. On Tuesday, Pratik Bhatt, who calls himself the Gujarat president of Hindu Sena, issued an open threat to lawyer Imtiyaz Koreja in Jamnagar.

Gujarat ISIS suspects remanded to police custody

Ahmedabad, Feb 27 – A local court on Monday remanded to 12-day police custody the two ISIS suspects arrested by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad from Rajkot and Bhavnagar on Sunday. Police said the two brothers — Wasim Ramodiya and Naeem Ramodiya — were learnt to be planning to conduct lone-wolf attacks in the state.

Gujarat ATS foils ISIS plot targeting ‘religious place’

Rajkot , Feb. 26 : The Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad on Sunday claimed to have successfully foiled an attack by two brothers who are alleged ISIS operatives. The ATS team nabbed Wasim Ramodia and Naem Ramodia, from Rajkot and Bhavnagar respectively, and also seized literature on making explosives, 90 grams gun powder, mobile phones and also Jihadi material from them.

Now it’s 10+6: Govt names more BJP members to PSU boards

A fresh list of independent director-appointees to central public sector enterprises, released Friday by the Department of Personnel and Training , comprises at least six more members of the BJP. This comes a day after The Indian Express reported that the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had on January 24 approved at least 10 BJP members to be on the boards of state-owned companies.

Bollywood producer Abis Rizvi’s mortal remains brought back to Mumbai

Bandra wears a sombre look as film producer’s body arrives from Istabul at his Meena Mahal residence early on Wednesday morning. Rizvi’s father was there at the gate to receive it An eerie silence took over the otherwise chirpy 7th Road near Bandra’s Andrew College, where around 7.45 am, film producer Abis Rizvi’s body was brought home, Meena Mahal, from the airport.

Supreme Court to hear petition challenging CBI interim director…

New Delhi , Jan. 3 : The Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear a plea challenging the appointment of interim Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation Rakesh Asthana, a 1984 Gujarat cadre Indian Police Service officer. The Public Interest Litigation filed by Prashant Bhushan on behalf of Common Cause, an NGO, sought the quashing of Asthana’s appointment in accordance with the Vineet Narain case.