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Gujarat demanded PepsiCo withdraw legal suits farmers
24th April 2019: Leading farmer unions, farmers’ rights advocacy groups and
eminent citizens of Gujarat demanded that PepsiCo immediately withdraw all the legal suits it has slapped on many potato farmers in different districts of Gujarat. The Indian subsidiary of the US MNC,
namely PepsiCo India Holdings (PIH) Pvt Ltd has filed cases of IPR infr...
Gujarat’s first transgender candidate for Lok Sabha was “c...
Monday, April 22, 2019
By Tanushree Gangopadhyay*
Gujarat’s first transgender candidate in the electoral fray, Jaysawal Naresh Babulal, will contest from the labour area of Ahmedabad East, but couldn’t claim her gender identity. Ironically, this vibrant constituency has fielded the largest number of crorepatis, numbering seven.
BJP’s Somabhai ...
As Gujarat goes to polls on April 23, Narmada is “forgotten̶...
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Boats dumped on the bank of river Narmada in Bharuch
By Mayank Aggarwal*
Sanjaybhai Machhi, 33, a resident of Bharuch in Gujarat, was a fisherman until a few years ago. He would earn enough from fishing in the Narmada river, to sustain his family. But now things have taken a turn for the worse and Sanjaybhai has had to s...
Despite “higher” water storage in Narmada dam, Kutch, Saur...
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Indira Sagar dam in Madhya Pradesh
Counterview Desk
Well-known environmentalist Himanshu Thakkar of the top advocacy group, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) has wondered as why, despite Gujarat having so much Narmada water this year, it is refusing to share it with drought hit and thirsty parts of t...
Why was Hardik Patel’s plea to suspend his conviction in a 2015 ...
Friday, April 19, 2019
Hardik Patel with Rahul Gandhi
By RK Misra*
While the Apex Court gave relief to a Gujarat Congress MLA regarding his disqualification, it denied urgent hearing of a plea from Hardik Patel of the same party, bringing into question his ability to contest the polls. In the space of just 24 hours, two leaders from Gujarat wh...
Modi supporters blamed for attack on journos, as India slips in press ...
Friday, April 19, 2019
By Our Representative
In what may prove to be a major embarrassment for Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a time when he is seeking a second term in office from India's electorate, the latest rankings released by the high-profile Reporters Without Borders (RWB), based in Paris, shows that India has slipped by two points fro...
Over-dependence on groundwater usage for irrigation: Gujarat average 7...
Saturday, April 20, 2019
By Persis Ginwalla, Sagar Rabari*
Over the three agriculture census periods (15 years), one can see that there has been an increase in overall holdings and the area under irrigation, and a net decrease in the unirrigated holdings and area in Gujarat. Increase in the irrigation cover in Gujarat is certainly significant, ...
Amit Shah earns just Rs 56 lakh annually, owns Rs 40 cr, faces four se...
CV News/ Saturday, April 20, 2019
BJP's high-profile candidate from Gandhinagar, Amit Shah, who also happens to be the party's national president, has claimed that his annual income is just about Rs 56 lakh, and his main sources of income are agriculture, rent and share market. Shah has also declared that he owns 40.32 crore of assets -- 23.55 c...
Pyramid of Virgin Dreams – Vipul Mittra
“One by one, the dozen odd menials came forward customarily to voice a few words of regret, nostalgia, repentance and sometimes even solace and consolation. All of them shed tears adeptly, almost automatically. Kartikeya wondered if they had some unseen knobs behind their ears, which when twisted, opened the valves of their tear ducts. There was fi...
60% urban men aged 20-24 unemployed, 5 lakh lost jobs in Gujarat 2016
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Counterview Desk
In a new report, "State of Working India", prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, even as taking strong exception to the Government of India discontinuing employment and unemployment survey, has quoted independent surveys to say that a whopping five million...
Book on seven interconnected “political” murders, includin...
CV News/ Wednesday, April 17, 2019
A controversial new book in Hindi, ‘Satta ki Suli’, with an account on CBI judge BH Loya’s death case, released in Ahmedabad, has sought to cover not only the alleged murder of the judge but also a series of seven other "political murders".
The book, authored by Mahendra Mishra, Pradeep Singh and Upendra Chowd...
How Modi’s Margdarshak Mandal became parking place for discarded...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
By RK Misra*
Political epitaphs have a way of returning to reclaim the hand that buried them. If the present prime minister of India spares no effort to berate Jawaharlal Nehru for perceived injustice to his deputy Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, how would Narendra Modi be rated when posterity evaluates him for putting to pa...
Future MPs being told to take a pledge to ensure sufficient budget for...
CV News/ Tuesday, April 16, 2019
As part of the Rape Free India Campaign, the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), in alliance with the Shala Mitra Sangh, a civil society group of Gujarat, released a draft pledge for the would-be elected representatives of the Lok Sabha polls, asking them to swear for ushering in a rape-free India.
T...
Study documents 34 smart city projects forcibly displacing 17,700 peop...
CV News/ Monday, April 15, 2019
As part of the Rape Free India Campaign, the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), in alliance with the Shala Mitra Sangh, a civil society group of Gujarat, released a draft pledge for the would-be elected representatives of the Lok Sabha polls, asking them to swear for ushering in a rape-free India.
Th...
Elections 2019: BJP in Gujarat trying hard to respond to Modi ‘withdra...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 COUNTER VIEW
By RK Misra*
Gujarat is the home state of two of the most powerful people in India today: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. Both were deeply rooted in state politics before graduating to centre-stage. Both leveraged their standing in the state to carve out a national niche for themsel...