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Hiral Dave

Hiral Dave is Senior Assistant Editor based out of Ahmedabad and covers developments in Gujarat. She has sixteen years of working in the field of journalism.

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GSEB HSC science result 2019 declared today, 71.9% students pass. Check 12th board scores at gseb.org

GSEB Board 12th science result 2019 declared: The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) has declared the class 12 science examination results.71.9% students passed the exam.

GSEB today declared the Class 12 Science results. Here is how to check.(PTI file)
Updated on May 09, 2019 11:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHiral Dave and Nilesh Mathur

Ishrat Jahan case: Charges dropped against Gujarat former police officers DG Vanzara, NK Amin

A CBI court pronounced the judgment, saying that the probe agency couldn’t get the required sanction to prosecute the officers.

A CBI court ordered dropping of charges against formerp police officers DG Vanzara (in pic) and NK Amin, saying that the probe agency couldn’t get the required sanction to prosecute the officers.(HT file photo)
Updated on May 02, 2019 12:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Asaram’s son Narayan Sai convicted in rape case, sentencing on April 30

The 40-year-old Narayan Sai was arrested from Pipli near Haryana’s Kurukshetra in December 2013 after two sisters from Surat filed rape complaints against him and his father Asaram in October that year.

One of the women had accused Narayan Sai of repeated sexual assaults when they were living at Asaram’s ashram between 2002 and 2005 in Surat.(PTI FILE)
Updated on Apr 26, 2019 02:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Lok Sabha election 2019: ‘Voter ID more powerful than IED’, says PM Modi after casting vote in Ahmedabad

The Prime Minister reached the polling booth in Nishan Higher Secondary School in Ranip area of Ahmedabad in an open vehicle and interacted with people as he went inside to vote.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows his ink-marked finger after casting his vote outside a polling station during the third phase of general election in Ahmedabad, India, April 23, 2019.(REUTERS)
Updated on May 03, 2020 01:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Saurashtra with 7 seats focus of all parties

Three of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rallies in Gujarat were held in Saurashtra. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi also addressed two of his five rallies in the state in Saurashtra region.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election rally in Gujarat. All 26 seats of the state will vote in a single phase on April 23.(Reuters file photo)
Updated on Apr 22, 2019 04:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Lok Sabha elections 2019: With turncoats from Congress, BJP looks to regain ground in Saurashtra

The BJP is hoping the induction of top Congress leaders would help it regain lost ground in Saurashtra, which has seven out of Gujarat’s 26 Lok Sabha seats.

Four-time lawmaker Jawahar Chavda won a cabinet berth after he quit the Congress a month ago to join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat.(AFP)
Updated on Apr 20, 2019 09:09 AM IST
Junagadh/Rajkot | By

Alpesh Thakor resigns from Congress, says party ‘betrayed my community’

On Wednesday, the 43-year-old leader Kshatriya Thakor leader sent his resignation that blamed the Congress for betraying his community. “I cannot be in the party that neglected and betrayed my community,” he wrote in his letter to the party.

Thakor’s exit had been speculated for months. But the Gujarat legislator had insisted that he was upset with the party but not on his way out.
Updated on Apr 10, 2019 11:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

‘Tughlaq Road poll scam’, says PM Modi as he targets Congress over tax raids

In this first rally in Gujarat since the Lok Sabha elections were announced, PM Narendra Modi said cash seized from people linked to the Congress showed that “the list of corruption” by the opposition party has grown longer.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally in Junagadh, Gujarat on Wednesday.(REUTERS)
Updated on Apr 10, 2019 05:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Junagadh | By

‘This Lok Sabha election is all about Narendra Modi’: Vijay Rupani

“People want an end to terrorism and only Modi can lead this fight. People have made up their mind to re-elect him as PM,” said Vijay Rupani.

The PM has earned the people’s confidence that he is a chowkidar, said Rupani.
Updated on Apr 08, 2019 09:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 | ‘Time to bring change’: Transwoman files nomination from Ahmedabad East

The 28-year-old transgender person Naresh Jayshwal will contest from Ahmedabad East, where the Congress candidate is Gita Patel, a close aide of Patidar leader Hardik Patel. The Bharatiya Janata Party has not announced its candidate from this constituency,

Naresh Jayshwal, a transwoman, has filed nomination as an independent candidate from Ahmedabad East Lok Sabha constituency.(HT Photo)
Published on Apr 04, 2019 09:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Lok Sabha elections 2019: In home base Gujarat, BJP looks to retain dominance

Saffron party aims to play on Gujarati sentiment while Congress looks to build on its assembly poll performance

Updated on Apr 02, 2019 07:40 AM IST

‘Who is your PM candidate?’: Uddhav Thackeray attacks Opposition in Gujarat

The Shiv Sena chief was speaking at a rally in Ahmedabad ahead of filing of nomination by BJP chief Amit Shah for the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat.

Thackeray said that the differences between the Sena and BJP cropped up over the last five years but the fact that the two parties are together for 25 years matters the most(PTI)
Updated on Mar 31, 2019 12:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Amit Shah files nomination for Lok Sabha debut with NDA’s show of strength

BJP president Amit Shah is filing nomination for the Lok Sabha polls in Gandhinagar today in presence of Union ministers Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Ram Vilas Paswan, and top NDA leaders Uddhav Thackeray and Parkash Singh Badal.

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani (2nd from R), Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel (3rd from L), State Mayor Bijal Patel (R) and Home Minister Rajnath Singh handover a coconut as a goodluck to BJP National President Amit Shah (C) during his public meeting in Ahmedabad on Saturday.(ANI)
Updated on Mar 30, 2019 05:34 PM IST
Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar | By

Lok Sabha election 2019: Hardik Patel may not contest as court refuses to stay conviction order

The 25-year-old, who earlier this month joined the Congress, has a few more days to move to the Supreme Court. April 4 is the last date for filing of nominations for the polls in Gujarat, to be held in the second phase of elections.

Hardik Patel was awarded two years sentence by a Visnagar court for leading a mob that ransacked local MLA Rishikesh Patel’s office in July 2015.(PTI)
Updated on Mar 29, 2019 11:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

9 Iranian held, drugs worth crores seized in Gujarat’s Porbandar

The suspects set the boat ablaze before being apprehended. The drugs were believed to be loaded from a Pakistani port whereas the dhow and its crew were Iranian.

The drugs were believed to be loaded from a Pakistani port whereas the dhow and its crew were Iranian.(PTI/Representative Image)
Published on Mar 27, 2019 04:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Gujarat refuses sanction to prosecute ex-cops in Ishrat Jahan case: CBI

The Gujarat government has declined sanction to prosecute retired police officers D G Vanzara and N K Amin in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others. A CBI court had earlier rejected discharge applications of the two former officers.

Former police officers DG Vanzara (above) and N K Amin were two of the seven accused chargesheeted by the CBI in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan.(PTI FIle Photo)
Updated on Mar 19, 2019 08:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Lok Sabha elections 2019: In first rally as gen secy, Priyanka urges voters to pick ‘right issues’

Priyanka Gandhi, who is the Congress’s incharge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, told a gathering in Gujarat that votes are a “weapon” which should be used “wisely” for the betterment of the nation.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi addressing the crowd during Congress party's Jan Sankalp Rally at Adalaj in Gandhinagar on March 12.(Siddharaj Solanki / HT Photo)
Updated on Mar 13, 2019 01:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gandhinagar | By

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Congress kicks off campaign blitz at PM Modi’s home turf

Congress leaders attended a prayer meeting at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad before convening for a meeting of CWC — its first in the state in 58 years — followed by a public rally where Priyanka Gandhi Vadra delivered her first speech since being appointed a general secretary

Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during Jan Sankalp Rally, in Gandhinagar, Tuesday, March 12, 2019.(PTI photo)
Updated on Mar 12, 2019 11:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | ByAurangzeb Naqshbandi and Hiral Dave

Adulation, jail, criticism: At 25, Hardik Patel has seen it all

Three years after he made the whole nation take note of him by leading the Patidar youths’ agitation for quota in education and jobs, Hardik Patel now needs to walk the tight rope in carving out his path to Delhi.

Three years after he made the whole nation take note of him by leading the Patidar youths’ agitation for quota in education and jobs, Hardik Patel now needs to walk the tight rope in carving out his path to Delhi.(Siddhraj Solanki/HT)
Updated on Mar 12, 2019 06:56 PM IST
Ahmedabad | By

Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani inducts two Congress defectors, Alpesh Thakor not in them

Within 24 hours of resigning as Congress MLA from Manavadar, Jawahar Chavda took oath of office and earned a berth in the cabinet. Jamnagar North MLA Dhavalsinh Jadeja, who defected from the Congress in 2017 ahead of Rajya Sabha polls, was inducted as a minister of state.

MLA Jawahar Chavda who resigned from Congress and joined BJP yesterday, takes oath as a minister in Gujarat government.(ANI/Twitter)
Updated on Mar 09, 2019 02:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Hardik Patel may join Congress in Guj, Alpesh Thakor could defect to BJP

While Patidar leader Hardik Patel has decided to join the Congress ahead of the March 12 Congress Working Committee meeting in Ahmedabad, party MLA and Other Backward Class (OBC) leader Alpesh Thakor may defect to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

While Patidar leader Hardik Patel has decided to join the Congress ahead of the March 12 Congress Working Committee meeting in Ahmedabad, party MLA and Other Backward Class (OBC) leader Alpesh Thakor may defect to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).(PTI)
Published on Mar 08, 2019 12:24 AM IST

Hardik Patel to join Congress this month: Sources

Hardik Patel, who led the Patidar stir for reservation in government jobs and education in Gujarat, is likely to join the Congress sometime in March, sources said.

Patidar reservation agitation leader of Gujarat Hardik Patel during interaction with media in Lucknow.(ANI)
Updated on Mar 07, 2019 05:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

PM Narendra Modi to woo Patidars with temple in Gujarat

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the groundbreaking ceremony of Vishva Umiya Dham Temple here on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the groundbreaking ceremony of Vishva Umiya Dham Temple here on Monday. Lakhs of Patidars, whose deity Umiya Mata the temple is dedicated to, are expected to attend the ceremony.(Sanjeev Verma/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Mar 04, 2019 11:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Accused gets 20-year in jail for raping 2-year-old girl in Gujarat

The court found Ravindra Gande guilty of raping a 24-month-old girl and awarded him to a 20-year jail term and ₹5,000 fine, said public prosecutor RN Pandya.

The incident had triggered violence against migrant labourers.(Diwakar Prasad/ HT Photo/ Representative Image)
Published on Mar 01, 2019 07:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Days after lone tiger spotted in Gujarat, a carcass found

A tiger’s decomposed carcass was on Tuesday found from Lunawada forest in Gujarat’s Mahisagar district, a fortnight after the presence of the lone tiger was confirmed in the area, an official said.

Image captured by night vision camera of a lone tiger's movement in forest of Mahisagar district in Gujarat.(HT photo)
Updated on Feb 26, 2019 11:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Rajkot cops parade man held for killing friend by stabbing him 37 times

Firoz Mataria, accused of fatally stabbing his friend, was paraded by the Rajkot police and taken to the scene of the crime to re-enact the murder.

Murder accused Firoz Mataria ( in grey tshirt ) was paraded and made to apologise for the crime by the Rajkot police, Monday, Feb 25, 2019.(HT Photo)
Updated on Feb 26, 2019 09:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahemdabad | By

36 Gir lions to be back in jungle in India’s largest reintroduction operation

The lions were declared fit after recovering from canine distemper virus infection.

An Asiatic lion rests in Gir forest.(REUTERS)
Published on Feb 23, 2019 07:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

Pick majority govt instead of coalition front: Modi to voters

Modi said a clear mandate not only enables the government to take decisions with conviction but also makes it to accountable to the people.

PM Modi was addressing a function after laying the foundation for an international terminal at Surat airport.(HT File Photo)
Updated on Jan 30, 2019 10:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad | By

BJP triumphs over Congress in Gujarat bypoll but loses in Jharkhand

The BJP wrested the Jasdan seat from Congress in Gujarat, while the Congress won the Kolebira seat in Jharkhand for the first time in 15 years

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani with wife Anjali and BJP supporters celebrate the win of BJP leader Kunvarji Bavaliya in Jasdan Assembly bypolls, in Gandhinagar, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. (PTI Photo)(PTI)
Updated on Dec 23, 2018 10:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad/Ranchi | ByHiral Dave and Gautam Mazumdar
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