Prashant Patel

The Election Commission of India has given a final chance to 21 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs to justify their appointment as parliamentary secretaries.

Window panes of the Vadodara city Congress office were broken in stone pelting on Monday night. City Congress unit president Prashant Patel said that the party members were informed by residents in the area . “We were informed by sources that the group was protesting against the slaughter of a bovine by a party worker in Kerala, but we believe that this has roots in the agitation of the party against the capping of Ganpati idol size,” Patel said.

On Friday, the EC ended Prashant Patel’s wait and recommended that the President disqualify 20 MLAs from the Aam Aadmi Party for holding an office of profit as parliamentary secretaries.

The Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) industrial estate at Saykha in Bharuch district, which is being developed as a chemical cluster, has seen delays in the establishment of common facilities by GIDC, but companies that have plots there are receiving notices for non-utilization penalties from GIDC.

The onset of summer vacations and lifting of Covid-19 restrictions has resulted in a spurt in summer vacation activities in the city.

City Congress president Prashant Patel registered a complaint against unidentified persons for pelting stones at the party’s office late on Monday night.

A person from Ahmedabad got a new lease of life on December 14 when he received two kidneys of a brain-dead man from Vijalpore in Jalalpore taluka of Navsari district.

Honouring the directive of Delhi High Court in the office-of-profit case against 20 AAP MLAs from Delhi, the Election Commission on Friday decided to grant the MLAs an oral hearing on May 17.

The forest officials at Sanjay Gandhi National Park are set to kick off a sensitization programme that will help stop poaching by staffers' kin.

The Election Commission has received a fresh set of replies from some of the 21 AAP MLAs to the petition seeking their disqualification for allegedly holding office of profit as parliamentary secretaries, even as other respondents failed to reply within the October 17 deadline and sought more time.

A section of Ganpati pandal organizers in the city along with Congress workers on Thursday burnt an effigy outside the Khanderao Market to protest against the capping on the size of idols.

A prominent city-based school has run into trouble after its teacher made objectionable remarks about Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru while conducting a class. Videos of the class went viral sparking a controversy.

A man was stabbed to death, allegedly by an auto driver over a personal enmity, on Thursday night in Vasna.

A delegation of Congress members led by city unit president Prashant Patel met the hospital superintendent and submitted a memorandum in this regard. The memorandum states that it was mandatory for the pilgrims to take a fitness certificate from a government hospital and the SSGH provided the services at Vadodara.

VADODARA: One person, who was injured in an explosion at a factory in Ankleshwar-GIDC area in Bharuch district on Sunday morning, succumbed to his injuries at the SSG Hospital here.

A bench had set aside the March 13, 2015 order after the counsel appearing for the Delhi government "conceded" that it was issued without taking concurrence of the LG.

The sounds of tyres screeching and engines roaring at night have been a constant source of anxiety and annoyance for Amdavadis. The growing menace of speed demons, who endanger the lives of pedestrians and fellow drivers, has led to a spike in complaints to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) over the past month.

While there exists a legal window for declaring the extra posts for MLAs outside the purview of ‘office of profit’ as defined under Article 102 of the Constitution , the Delhi government, in a hurry to reward 21 MLAs with plum posts, overlooked this requirement.

The city Congress has got its fourth president in six months' time. Former student leader Prashant Patel took charge as Vadodara Congress president on Friday.

The city crime branch on Friday arrested the main accused in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) leopard poaching case who claim to have killed atleast three leopard and sold their skins.

Protests by the opposition Congress in the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) over supply of contaminated and insufficient water in the city took an ugly turn with mayor Dr Jigeesha Sheth being allegedly pushed during the protests. The mayor was trying to enter the VMC general board hall even as Congress members were lying down and squatting at its entrance.