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1. Union Minister of Consumer Affairs Ram Vilas Paswan scheduled to move The Consumer Protection Bill, 2019 for consideration and passing in the Rajya Sabha. The Bill provides for protection of the interests of consumers and for the said purpose, to establish authorities for timely and effective administration and settlement of consumer...
BJP Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh. Girish Ramdular Verma...
Khadiya police have expedited the looting of lakhs of rupees to traders in Uttar Pradesh by pretending to have homes with leaders including BJP Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh. Girish Ramdular Verma, a UP fraudster from Ahmedabad, has been arrested and handed over to Uttar Pradesh police. Girish Verma has claimed millions of rupees by t...
Pravinsinh Jadeja, former Gujarat environment minister apologises to N...
Veteran Gujarat politician apologises to NBA for opposing anti-Narmada dam movement
CV News/ August 01, 2019
Is the support for the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), considered an "untouchable" by politicians of all hues, growing in Gujarat? It would seem so, if one goes by what a veteran leader from Saurashtra, Pravinsinh Jadeja, former Gujarat ...
Civil society, political parties to hold EVM Hatao protest rallies on ...
CV News/ Sunday, July 21, 2019Representatives of social movements from 16 states have decided at a national consultation to hold massive long marches and nationwide protests on August 9, the anniversary of Quit India movement, against electronic voting machines being used during the polls. To be bannered “EVMs Quit India! EVM Hatao – Desh Bachao – ...
Ahmedabad civil rights organization to launch ‘Improve roads, Sa...
campaignCV News/ Friday, July 19, 2019Ahmedabad's civil rights organization, Nagrik Sashaktikaran Manch (NSM), has decided to launch 'Improve roads, Save lives' campaign on Sundays starting July 21 across different parts of the city for the next two months, reminding city authorities that the recent Kankaria incident, in which two persons died and ...
Demand to urgently repair roads damaged due to Ahmedabad metro work
workCV News/ Friday, July 12, 2019
In a letter to the director, Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) and other officials of the GMRC, as also the Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner and the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation mayor, senior state activist Jatin Sheth, convener, Nagrik Sashaktikaran Manch, has sought urgent intervention to ensure that t...
Gujarat’s Right to Educational rules not disability friendly: UN...
CV News/ Tuesday, July 09, 2019
A UNESCO-sponsored report has sharply criticized Gujarat for failing to be disability-friendly towards children aged 5-19. The report says that all state rules for implementing the Right to Education Act, 2006, for instance, "provide for safe transportation to and from school for children with disabilities" with t...
Sanjiv Bhatt’s life imprisonment was ‘fast track injustice...
CV News/ Monday, July 08, 2019
“It is the case of fast track injustice by the court of law; very unfortunate”, Shweta Bhatt, the wife of jailed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt told the media conference at the Press Club of India in Delhi, adding, “Because, he spoke truth before the Nanavati Commission about perpetrators of 200 Gujarat pogrom. It was th...
Satellite data ‘identify’ Gujarat’s Mundra among 6 o...
Friday, July 05, 2019
By Rajiv Shah
A fresh study, which analyzes data between February 2018 and May 2019, obtained from Tropomi, a satellite instrument on board the Dutch Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite, has warned that coal-fired power plants and industrial clusters are India’s “worst nitrogen oxides (NOx) hotspots” contributing hug...
Costs are up, profit margins down, says IIM-A survey of 1,600 companie...
CV News/ Friday, July 05, 2019
Costs are up, profit margins down, says IIM-A survey of 1,600 companiesCV News/ Friday, July 05, 2019Profit mrgins % responsesThe latest Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES), released by the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has revealed that 54% of responses obtained from 1,600 companies sa...
Gujarat agate workers use potentially low preventive practice to ̵...
Thursday, July 04, 2019
By Rajiv Shah
A decade ago the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) may have come up with a Global Programme for the Elimination of Silicosis by 2030. However, a new research paper co-authored by Canada-based scholars in association with senior Gujarat activist Jagdish Patel of ...
Gujarat meet to demand anti-lynching legislation: Budget ‘quiet&...
CV News/ Wednesday, July 03, 2019
The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), a Gujarat-based civil rights organisation, will be holding a state-level conference to demand from the Gujarat government to come up with a separate legislation to prevent rising incidents of lynchings. Proposed to be called Minorities (Prevention of Atrocities) Bill, M...
Justice for Sanjiv Bhatt? With ‘right’ political connectio...
By Fr Cedric Prakash sj
The controversial and self-proclaimed ‘godman’ Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan is currently serving a life-term in at the Sunaria jail in Rohtak after being convicted in two cases of rape and the murder of a journalist. Recently, he applied for parole asking for 42 days of parole to "look after his fields in Sirsa district"....
Narmada dam stands like statue, not satiating Kutch-Saurashtra thirst:...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar
Counterview Desk
Commenting on the Prime Minister's recent speech in Parliament, top Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar and her colleagues* have said that Narendra Modi's statement on Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) on Narmada river is "rootless and proofless", insis...
Limestone mining in Bhavnagar to ‘impact’ livelihood, wate...
The Khedut Ekta Manch – Gujarat (KEMG), a non-profit farmers’ organization based in Ahmedabad, in a representation to the High Court-appointed committee to study the impact of limestone mining in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, has that there are “very serious issues" would emerge in the wake of the decision to sanction of mining lease in the area "wi...