Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Gujarat Assembly condemns the death of 44 jawans in the terrorist atta...

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani as the Leader of the House moved a resolution in the State Assembly today to unanimously condemn in strong words the death of 44 jawans in the terrorist attack at Pulwama in Jammu & Kashmir on February 14 last. Leader of the Opposition Pareshbhai Dhanani, Deputy Chief Minister Nitinbhai Patel and oth...

Industrial units will soon get ‘Electricity Duty Waive’ certificate wi...

Gujarat government has decided to ease, speedup and transparent the waiving of the electricity duty for the newly setting up industrial units or the qualifying additional units of the existing industrial units for five years from the date of production. The qualified industrial units will soon get certificate of waiving of electricity duty within ...

Stop Translocation of the Crocodiles Sardar sarover

Stop Translocation of the Crocodiles from the Lakes Near Sardar Sarovar Dam as translocation of crocodile is not a viable / appropriate solution, because it is short-sighted with long term impacts transfer of a problem from one site to other site, only. The Gujarat State Forest Department has started relocating crocodiles from two ponds / impoun...

Only 40% forest land claims approved, 10% tribal farmers got land titl...

CV News/ Monday, February 11, 2019 Gujarat's tribal rights organization, with a claimed membership of over 10,000 in seven districts, Eklavya Sangathan, which organized a rally on February 11 at the riverfront in Ahmedabad, has demanded that tribals' right to own forest land, get foodgrains as per the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, and...

No aadhaar, no ration? Hard blow by Gujarat govt on poor and marginali...

By Pankti Jog* Only those who have aadhaar registration and linked it with ration card will get ration from a Public Distribution System (PDS) shop. This decision of the Gujarat government has hit very badly thousands of poor and marginalized communities of Gujarat, especially during the drought year. The Gujarat government has always been eager ...

Seismic activity “responsible” for polluted Narmada waters...

Counterview Desk Well-known anti-dam organization, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), has alleged that seismic activity could be a major reason why the Narmada water got polluted and undrinkable. A statement signed by several senior NBA activists, including Medha Patkar, Kailash Awasya , Mukesh Bhagoriya, Kamla Yadav, Rahul Yadav, Suresh Patidar, Jagdi...

Disclose reasons behind the presence of Sulphide in Narmada dam

Disclose reasons behind the presence of Sulphide and decrease in Dissolved Oxygen (DO) in Sardar Sarovar Dam and its canals. All write to the authority for the disclose reason. The Sardar Sarovar Dam is understood to be The Lifeline of Gujarat and is considered to be the solution to water problem of almost the entire state. Recent media repor...

Very high sodium content in Maggi

Advts of Maggi Nutri-licious Atta Noodles and Alia bhatt endorsed Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water found to be false. Class Action Suits filed on both companies. NGO, Ahmedabad has filed two cases before the District Forum against Nestle India Ltd and L’Oreal India Pvt. Ltd for their misleading advertisements. The advts of Nestle’s Maggi Nutri-l...

Officers suspended for 800 acers land scam

Resident Additional Collector and two others suspended for transferring 800 acres of government land of Chotila taluka for false interpretation of ALC Gandhinagar, Thursday: In a past case of irregularities found in transfer of over 800 acres of government land at Bamanbor and Jivapar in Chotila taluka in Surendranagar district under Agricultura...

Dalit solidarity with Prof Teltumbde in Ahmedabad

CV News/ Saturday, February 09, 2019 As part of protests being held across India, several Dalit rights activists gathered in Ahmedabad to show solidarity in support of Prof Anand Teltumde, sought to be persecuted allegedly on "frivolous and unsubstantiated" charges, such as he sympathizes with Maoists, that he helped provoke violence at Bhima Ko...

Patients will get cashless treatments up to Rs. 5-lakh at 2600 hospita...

Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani today categorically stated that the state government is determined to provide healthy and long life to all of its citizens by covering them under world’s biggest health insurance scheme ‘Ayushman Bharat Yojna’ (ABY) launched by Government of India under the leadership of Prime Minister Mr. Narendrabhai Mo...

Gujarat, Central govt “mess” over poisonous Narmada waters...

  CV News/ Sunday, February 10, 2019 Even as the Gujarat government is going ahead with Narmada Jubilee celebrations, Mother Narmada is allegedly facing it's worst-ever crisis. The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in a statement says that after stopping Narmada water from big dams, the drinking water consumption was reduced, and now the rese...

Padma Shri nominee Abdul Gaforbhai Khatri

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani sent his greetings to this year’s Padma Shri award nominee of Abdul Gaforbhai Khatri of Ninona village in Kutch district for keeping alive the 300 years old intricate ‘Rogan’ art of cloth painting through family tradition. The Chief Minister’s letter felicitating Gaforbhai on behalf of Gujarat Government and Pri...

Facebook page dedicated to farmers’ cause “hacked”, ...

CV News/ Wednesday, February 06, 2019 A Facebook page dedicated to farmer’s issues, problems, and knowledge has allegedly been hacked. The page was created in September 2014 to raise the voice of Gujarat farmers’ issues and problems. Its owner, Sipai Husen, claims, it has received more than 2 lakh likes, and it was growing at rapid rate in short...

47-lakh APL families to get 4-liter kerosene

Gujarat  has decided to provide 4-liter of subsidies kerosene per ration-card to each APL family, who are without gas connection, through the public distribution system in the state from February - 2019. The maximum 4-liter of kerosene would be provided to all APL Families, except those living in eight municipal corporations, of the state. The dec...