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Aarti held to highlight Sabarmati pollution beyond Vasna barrage in Ah...
Taking strong exception to the cleaning-up drive of Sabarmati river passing through Ahmedabad on the occasion of the World Environment Day, senior activists Jatin Sheth and Santosh Singh have said that the move started by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is restricted not to the entire Sabarmati river but to the area of the riverfront in...
Rise in Ahmedabad’s temperature ‘related to’ higher ...
The Green Catalyst team, consisting of 45 volunteers from 15 different colleges of Ahmedabad, organized two different programmes on the occasion of the World Environment Day, supported by Ahmedabad-based environmental organization Paryavaran Mitra.
The team, which works for awareness and education on waste management, including e-waste and plastic...
It’s now official: Akshay Kumar has not been conferred honorary ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019 By Our Representative
It is now official. Super-star Akshay Kumar has not been conferred any honorary citizenship by Canadian authorities, as claimed by him ahead of the 2019 elections. In reply to a query by Roshan Shah, who is a Canadian citizen living in Waterloo, Ontario, and belongs to Ahmedabad, the country’s author...
Total Narmada Dam oustees 53,000, not 23,000, NBA tells Govt of India
CV News/ Monday, June 03, 2019 Narmada Valley Development and Rehabilitation Minister Surendrasinh Baghel's claim in a press communique that all the 83 rehabilitation sites, built in Madhya Pradesh to resettle Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam oustees, would be given all the facilities till June 20 to make them liveable "is impossible to achieve", the ...
Cleared 50 TP-DP Schemes in first five months
With a determination of seedy and well plan development of urban areas in the state, Gujarat Chief Minster Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani has cleared as many as 50 Town Planning Schemes (TP) – Development Plan (DP) in first five months of year-2019. The clearance of these 50 TPs have given developmental planning for over 5,000 hectares of land areas.
Since ...
Surat fire tragedy: Gujarat govt hasn’t learned from past traged...
CV News/ Saturday, May 25, 2019 In a memorandum to Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), Gujarat, a political group, has said that the Takshshila fire tragedy in Surat, which has led to the death of 23 students, suggests that the Gujarat government has not learned any lesson over the last two years, dur...
Surat fire tragedy, three arrested, three officials suspended
Mukesh Puri, Principal Secretary of Urban Development, submitted his primary investigation report to Chief Minister on fire tragedy incident that recently occurred in
Surat.
Later, Puri, apprising the media persons about the details of his submitted report, said that in reference to the report in a high-level meeting was held in Gandhinagar in wh...
As Narmada goes dry, environmentalist asks: Where’s Gujarat govt...
CV News/ Friday, May 17, 2019Senior Ahmedabad-based environmentalist Mahesh Pandya has sharply criticised the Gujarat government for failing to come up with water policy despite "grim" situation across the state. Pandya, who heads Paryavaran Mitra, told a seminar jointly called by the Gujarat Institute for Civil Engineers and Architects and Public ...
Jurisdiction And Functions Of Lokpal
The Lokpal has jurisdiction to inquire into allegations of corruption against anyone who is or has been Prime Minister, or a Minister in the Union government, or a Member of Parliament, as well as officials of the Union Government under Groups A, B, C and D. Also covered are chairpersons,members, officers and directors of any board, corporation, so...
Suspend senior cop Falguni Patel for “abusing” Dalits
CV News/ Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Jignesh Mevani, Gujarat Dalit rights leader and MLA, has demanded that the state government should immediately suspend Aravalli district's deputy superintendent of police Falguni Patel for allegedly abusing Dalits in Khambisar village after people from the dominant caste stalled a Dalit wedding procession, leading to ...
The highest increases in crimes in eight states with Gujarat
Counterview Desk
In their joint submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee to meet for the listing of adoption of list of issues at its 126th session, July 1-26, 2019, top Dalit rights organizations have taken strong exception to, among other things, "disproportional application of death sentencing by the judiciary of minorities, such...
Dalit wedding processions row: Rights leaders question Gujarat CM̵...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Martin Macwan, Jignesh Mevani
By Our Representative
Addressing media in the wake of a series of incidents -- in which dominant rural castes stopped Dalit wedding processions to pass through village streets -- rights leaders Jignesh Mevani, an independent MLA of Gujarat state assembly, and Martin Macwan, founder of Gujarat...
LS Candidates with Criminal Background
Criminal Background · Candidates with Criminal Cases: 170(19%) out of 909 candidates analysed have declared criminal cases against themselves. · Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 127(14%) out of 909 candidates analysed have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. · Candidates with Declared Convicted Cases: 5 candidates ha...
The government’s performance score on the top 10 voters’ priorities is...
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) commissioned perhaps the largest ever Voter Survey in any country. The survey was conducted between October 2018 and December 2018, prior to the General Elections to the Lok Sabha 2019. It covered 534 Lok Sabha constituencies with 2,73,487 voters participating in this exercise spread among various demogr...
India’s 80% construction sites “unsafe”, deaths 20 t...
Sunday, May 12, 2019 By Rajiv Shah
The Government of India may be seeking to project India’s construction sector as the country’s second-largest employer of the country after agriculture, providing jobs to more than 44 million people, and contributing nearly 9% to the national GDP, yet, ironically, its workforce is more unprotected than any oth...