Dahegam: Extra police deployment was made at Karoli village's Kasba area in Dahegam over damage to a flag-pillar of Dargah. According to Sunil Patel, who runs a fertilizer shop, Gebanshah Pir dargah of Muslims is located next to a private land administered by him. The dargah people encroached the road side space and built a pillar which was not accepted to him. A portion of pillar was therefore damaged with use of hammer by him. In the afternoon on Thursday a mob of Muslims rushed to Pate...Read More

Gandhinagar: Former Congress legislator Kaminiba Rathod today joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with her supporters. Kaminiba was a Congress MLA from the Dahegam seat of North Gujarat during 2012-2017. She had won the election on a Congress party ticket in 2012 with 2,297 vote margin. She lost the 2017 polls to the BJP candidate by a 10,860 vote margin. Kaminiba had on Tuesday resigned from the primary membership of the Congress party after withdrawing her candidature from the up...Read More

Dahegam: Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) had received the information that the employee working in the birth, death and marriage registration branch of Dahegam municipality demands a bribe between Rs 1000 to 1500 per marriage certificate. They repeatedly call and delay the work if the bribe is not paid, as per the information received. To verify the information, ACB planned a decoy trap. The accused office clerk Rohitbhai Chimanlal Shah was found taking a bribe of Rs 3000 for 2 marriage certifi...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Congress's vice president Indranil Rajyaguru has joined Aam Admi Party (AAP). Rajyaguru is from Rajkot and he had been Congress MLA in the past. Along with him, Congress councilor Vashram Sagathiya has also joined Congress today. Sagathiya had been leader of opposition in Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) in the previous term. In another development speculations went rife that sulking former Congress MLA from Dahegam, Kaminiba Rathod has resigned from the post of Coordinato...Read More