Anand: The local Hindu community of Khambhat city has submitted a memorandum to the District Collector, demanding an extension of the Disturbed Areas Act for another 25 years. This move comes as the term of the Disturbed Areas Act, currently imposed in Khambhat, is set to expire on February 20. The Hindu community members have also requested that the Act be extended to more areas of the city. In the memorandum submitted to the Anand District Collector on behalf of the Hindu community, it was ...Read More

Anand: Khambhat Police has filed an FIR against four individuals for allegedly “hurting religious sentiments” after torn pages of a religious text were scattered from a giant wheel during the final day of the 10-day Diwali mela at Chakdol ground in the city. The accused, when apprehended, were identified as Children in Conflict with Law (CCL) and were presented before the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Board on Monday. Deputy Superintendent of Police, Khambhat, S B Kumpavat, stated that the incide...Read More

Khambhat: At the end of the counting of votes through all 17 rounds, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) candidate Chirag Patel won the by-election of Khambhat assembly seat in Central Gujarat by getting 87,707 votes. Chirag Patel won the election by a margin of 38,202 votes against the nearest rival candidate Mahendrasinh Parmar who could get 49,505 votes. An independent candidate Mahipatsinh Chauhan got 15,631 votes. The by-poll was necessited due to resignation of Chirag Patel as Congress MLA....Read More

Borsad/Khambhat: Former Congress MLA of Khambhat, Chirag Patel today joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at a public meeting held here today in the presence of Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil. Chirag Patel had left the Congress party and resigned from the State Assembly last month. In another function in the same district at Borsad, over 3100 Congress workers joined the BJP as per the district BJP chief Rajeshbhai Patel. Chirag Patel will probably contest Khambhat seat as BJP candidate in ...Read More

Anand: Khambhat Congress MLA Chirag Patel has tendered his resignation from the post of Member of Legislative Assembly of Gujarat after meeting the State Assembly Speaker, Shankar Chaudhary, in the state capital today. Patel is the second MLA to resign from the state assembly within a week. Last week, Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Visavadar, Bhupat Bhayani, had resigned from the assembly. Chirag Patel (44), a first-time MLA, had won the state assembly election last year by a margin of 3,711 vot...Read More

Gandhinagar: More than 25 lakh square metres of beaches in Gujarat have eroded, including parts of the Shivrajpur beach which was awarded the Blue Flag accreditation in 2020, stated the central government in the Rajya Sabha. Dr Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, presented a set of data which indicates that erosion is affecting more than 537.5 kilometres of the sea coast in Gujarat, making it the region with the highest amount of affected area in ...Read More

Khambhat: Union home minister Amit Shah said while attacking congress that the entire Nehru Gandhi family took the utmost care to see that Sardar Patel's name is omitted. He said, "From Jawarhlal Nehru to Sonia Gandhi, the entire Nehru Gandhi family took the utmost care to see that Sardar Patel's name is omitted but Narendrabhai made such a statue that whether they (Nehru-Gandhi family and Congress) wish or don't wish entire world visits Sardar Saheb's statue." He added that no photos of con...Read More

Khambhat: The police have nabbed 4 more accused in the case of violence on Ram Navmi procession in Shakkarpur in Khambhat. The police have filed a crime against over 100 persons in the case. The four more accused nabbed by the police are: Zakirhussain Hussain Malek, Mufis Hussain Malek, Tasvarhussain Mohammad Malek, and Mosin Mustufa Dalwadi. All of them are residents of Shakkarpur. Their names were revealed during an inquiry of the accused earlier nabbed by the police. DeshGujaratRead More

Khambhat: The police have nabbed 2 more accused in the case of violence in Ram Navami procession in Shakkarpur in Khambhat. The police had rounded up 5 persons on Saturday and nabbed two out of them. The court has approved the remand of the two accused Jamshedkhan Joravarkhan Pathan and Majid alias Majlo Malek till 20th April. The police have earlier nabbed 9 accused including 3 maulvi in this case. The police demanded further remands of these 9 accused by producing them in the court aft...Read More