Gujarat assembly will not have the formal question hour during the two-day session beginning next month, a move which the Opposition said is against the constitutional norms.Gujarat assembly speaker Ashok Bhat, however, said that the MLAs will be allowed to raise important questions in the first hour of the proceedings."We will allow MLAs to raise important questions in the first hour of the assembly...
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three-day annual conference of 'Research Society for Study of Diabetes in India' (RSSDI) that began on Friday will focus on educating the general public about the disease and its consequences. At the conference, people will be given free counselling and questions related to the subject will be answered by experts.The conference was inaugurated by Gujarat Assembly speaker Ashok Bhatt at the Gujarat...
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MLA Vasram Khorani died following cardiac arrest at his residence in Surendranagar district today. He was 45. Khorani represented Chotila constituency in the Gujarat Assembly. With his death, the strength of the House stands at 181, against the total strength of 182. Khorani was elected from Chotila in Surendranagar district during the recent bypolls. The by-election in Chotila was necessitated following...
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Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has refused to renew the lease agreement with the Auto Rickshaw Drivers Cooperative Society Ltd. The civic body has not given a reason for not renewing the agreement. Though the society had sent a renewal application, the civic body after four months, issued a notice to the body to vacate the plot within three days.The plot adjacent to the hospital for contagious diseases...
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World Health Organisation (WHO) has dubbed India as the diabetics capital of the world and projected the number of diabetics in the country to be around 88 million by 2030, a senior diabelotogist said today.At present, about 40 million population in India has been estimated to be diabetic, according to Dr Mayur Patel, Organising Chairman of the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI)...
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GANDHINAGAR:The Gujarat government has decided to call a two-day Assembly session onDecember 17 and 18.Well-placed sources in the State Assemblysecretariat said that the decision has been conveyed to Speaker Ashok Bhatt. "OnDecember 16, one day before the Assembly session, Chief Minister Narendra Modiwill address former MLAs and MPs in order to apprise them of the preparationsfor the Golden Jubilee...
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size="2"> Deepal Trivedi
Gandhinagar
Nov. 21: In a complete turn over from established norms and parliamentary practice, the Gujarat Legislative Assembly’s forthcoming session will skip all sorts of question-answers. The till now mandatory question-answer session has been simply dropped.
In a decision that has taken the ruling BJP MLAs, besides the...
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Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Shaktisinh Gohil today said he was surprised that Governor S C Jamir had forwarded the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (GUJCOC) bill to President Pratibha Patil as it was politically motivated legislation.He said the way the bill was passed by the Assembly without paying any heed to the suggestions for change in the earlier bill, the Governor should not...
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of Gujarat and Maharashtra, SC Jamir, returned the Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment) Bill 2009 -- whose cause is being championed by Narendra Modi -- to the Gujarat government, on Saturday.The bill proposes capital punishment for those responsible for hooch-related crimes. The government had passed the bill in July after facing severe criticism in the wake of the Ahmedabad hooch tragedy in which...
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Congress has alleged a multi-crore sand bag check dam scam in the Narendra Modi government. Crores of rupees sent by the Centre under the Rural Employment Scheme and other schemes are being siphoned off by BJP politicians in Gujarat.
In one case study, at least two educated village youth found their names impersonated and daily wages were collected using their thumb prints. Fake bills of...
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